Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions

[rogue emissary]

By CHARLIE SAVAGE
AUG. 1, 2017
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times.

The document, an internal announcement to the civil rights division, seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.”

The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division’s front office, where the Trump administration’s political appointees work, rather than its Educational Opportunities Section, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65650032&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0


I'm starting to think we need a pinned thread called "What do you have to lose." So we can keep track of all of Donny's policy that specifically affects African Americans. Essentially the opposite of the " . . . . what has Pres. Obama ever done for the African-American Community".

[hlthe2b]

1. This seems like a piece that belongs in The Onion.... Sadly, this is classic Jeff Sessions-Bannon,

alt-right crap.

I can only hope the backlash among institutions and communities against DOJ will be intense.

[Ccarmona]

2. Why Not Just Turn Over Justice to th KKK

Racist Mother Fuckers led by head Racist Beauregard

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. They have, and they have declared war on all non white males.

Anybody getting angry yet?

[Catmusicfan]

3. O. M. G.

[Ilsa]

4. "We are going to take away your civil rights, and

we are going to use your civil rights lawyers to do it."

That should be a quote from the assholes running the DoJ.

[rogue emissary]

5. Their going to use our tax dollars to do it as well.

[gohuskies]

6. This has Bannon's grubby filthy fingerprints all over it

This is deplorable bullshit. Now we have activist extremists out to destroy the education systems. Despicable but not unexpected for this extreme dysfunctional utopian GOP wet dream.

[Best_man23]

7. Any DoJ lawyer who has a shred of ethics

Would not come within 200 feet of this effort. DoJ lawyers often become Federal judges later in their careers. If I were a lawyer I would not want this on my resume.

[GeoWilliam750]

8. If we actually selected students ONLY on the basis of grades and test scores

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Young white men would fare not very well at all.

Currently, on average in the United States, girls/women form 54-55% of high school graduates.
In terms of course work, girls tend to have a roughly 3.2 GPA versus just under 3.0 for boys, and those girls take more - and more difficult courses.

The only thing in which graduating boys do better than girls is the math portion of the SAT - which has been consistent for a number of years. However, in actual math classes, girls' work tends to be on a par with boys (which raises some interesting questions around the testing protocols).

I have seen no statistics about the extra-curricular activities (no minds in the gutter, please) of boys versus girls, but would initially assume the levels to be similar.

The key difference in all of this is that girls tend to focus and get their work done. They also have a far lower predilection for engaging in criminal activities.
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Another couple of forms of affirmative action include the preference of applicants whose parents went to the university, apparently worth about 10% on the SAT, allowing a large number of under-qualified (and overwhelmingly white - no idea on the break between the genders) applicants to be accepted. Furthermore, contributing vast sums of money to a university will often get one's child a place that they would not have otherwise merited.

Thus, be careful what you wish for. If young white males actually wish for fairness, they might not like the outcome.

[BlueMTexpat]

10. Excellent points!

DJT and his spawn are glaring examples of your penultimate paragraph.

[leftofcool]

12. Bingo! We have a winner, folks!

You are spot on.

[JI7]

9. part of the "make america white" agenda