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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Supreme Court appears set to end Affirmative Action at Universities

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

A affirmative action could be going by, bye, bye, at least as it relates to colleges.

0:11.3

Now he's three WIBC, it's Kennel and Casey show him Rob, Mindy Winkler's in for Casey

0:15.8

today.

0:16.8

Kevin's here.

0:17.8

So Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments, two different cases, basically the same

0:24.7

thing though they relate to affirmative action.

0:27.6

One was at the University of North Carolina, one is at Harvard.

0:32.6

And again, for those of you who may not be aware, affirmative action is related to colleges

0:37.0

specifically, is the ability to give preferential treatment to a student based on their race.

0:47.4

And are you talking about simply acceptance or are you talking about scholarship all of

0:52.3

that?

0:53.3

Acceptance into the colleges.

0:56.3

And at the crux of this really is a large group of Asian students who have been punished

1:02.7

based on the affirmative action scales of places like Harvard.

1:07.5

So the weird thing about this is while, yes, white students are adversely affected

1:13.1

by this, it is really primarily Asian students who have been the most impacted and they are

1:18.9

the core of this case.

1:20.0

That are wanting affirmative action drops.

1:21.9

Right.

1:22.9

Because they're saying we're getting screwed based on this bizzaro scoring system that these

1:29.5

universities have.

1:32.0

And so I thought it was interesting because you have a son who just ventured off into the

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