Shouldn’t we be artificially limiting the amount of women accepted in order to ensure gender equity? Isn’t this what we normally do, for example to prevent the best Universities from being almost entirely Asian?
A lot of people, if not the majority (because it's mainstream now), don't realize we no longer live in a society with liberal values of truth, freedom, justice, and equality. We've entered a postmodern era, where everything is a power game, everyone must fit in either oppressor or oppressed, and these categories are based on immutable traits that you cannot change. Quite the irony...
It will be interesting to see what happens as the pendulum continues its over-corrective course. Will there be a long-delayed reckoning like with China's preference for boys and the one child policy? I don't expect the ideologues who are encouraging the current trajectory will be around to pay the price for it.
I think I missed that history class. When was society ever truthful, free, equal, just?
I have a value of being fit and healthy.
Sounds like a messed up system.
Based on Caltech (no affirmative action by own decision) and Berkeley and UCLA (no affirmative action by elected proposition, although many and varied means are used to attempt to bypass the restriction), elite universities will be "only" about 30-40% Asian without affirmative action.