💛 Editor’s Letter: White Supremacy Always Deals from the Bottom of the Deck
💛 SCOTUS Gone Amok
💛 Hope Amidst Hopelessness
💛 Patriots in Song and Heart
💛 What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?
💛 and a quote by Justice Jackson
A script coordinator for "Seal Team," backed by a conservative group founded by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, has sued CBS Studios and its parent company, Paramount. Brian Beneker alleges that he was repeatedly denied a staff writer job after the implementation of an "illegal policy of race and sex balancing" that he says discriminates against straight white men. The Hollywood Reporter's Winston Cho says this could be the "opening legal salvo against efforts to boost diversity and inclusion in Hollywood in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision knocking down affirmative action."
Yes, they do not only feel that they are threatened, their livelihood really is under attack. So ult-right pundits' venonomous seed of hatred falls on fertile ground or as @willbunch puts it:
"...👉a pyramid of paranoia that starts with penny-seeking bottom feeders on social media and ends with the bloviation of national...
Around the world #affirmativeaction (AA) is controversial, especially among those whose privileges have been hard-wired into the current social systems.
So the Q. may be whether given the #political resistance to 'hard' AA measures can be so disruptive, 'soft' AA measure around norm-transformation & reduction in bias might be better routes to take?
Or, is any move to softer measures just a mask for the continuation of the #politics of entitlement, #racism & #sexism?
💛 “Increasing Racial Diversity without Affirmative Action”
The author of a new book on affirmative action in higher education discusses how colleges might still be able to become more diverse now that affirmative action has been banned.
—@TheConversationUS
💛 “Increasing Racial Diversity without Affirmative Action”
The author of a new book on affirmative action in higher education discusses how colleges might still be able to become more diverse now that affirmative action has been banned.
—@TheConversationUS
💛 “Increasing Racial Diversity without Affirmative Action”
The author of a new book on affirmative action in higher education discusses how colleges might still be able to become more diverse now that affirmative action has been banned.
—@TheConversationUS
In the first #college application season since the #USSupremeCourt struck down #AffirmativeAction, #AsianAmerican#students are more stressed out than ever. #RaceConscious admissions were widely seen to have disadvantaged them, as borne out by #disparities in the test scores of admitted students — but many feel that race will still be a hidden factor and that standards are even more opaque than before.