Affirmative Action
topic on 4 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
American Optimist 
How I Built This 
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8 statements about Affirmative Action, every show
Horowitz: 50 years of affirmative action failed to help African Americans
“I think, look, I think it's clearly not working also in the, yeah, I mean, they were there, you know, with the kind of ruling on affirmative action, there were so many studies that showed that It didn't actually help African-Americans. 50 years, you know, forg…”
Tucker Carlson: Affirmative action is immoral and leads to violence
“I think affirmative action is completely, not only immoral, because it's an insult to the idea of America, which is, like, the people who do the best get the most, But it is also a recipe over time for violence, and I made that case, I've made that case every …”
Chamath: Affirmative action in college admissions is classism disguised as racism
“And so I think this was always an issue of classism that was disguised as racism.”
Palihapitiya: Supreme Court consensus is repealing affirmative action within a month
“The consensus opinion is that we're going to repeal affirmative action in the next month or the Supreme Court is going to do that.”
Williams: France does not measure race or permit race-based affirmative action
“So in France they don't, for example, and this is not a perfect society, but they don't measure race. So they don't actually, everyone's just a French citizen. So you can't actually do affirmative action based on race in France because no one knows”
Palihapitiya predicts the Supreme Court will eliminate affirmative action within two months
“In the next month, maybe in the next two months, we're going to sort of see a pretty strict opinion on affirmative action. And if you talk to legal scholars, the overwhelming consensus is this is gone.”
Chamath Palihapitiya supports affirmative action, saying it levels the playing field
“I'm kind of, I think on the margins, affirmative action is actually, it levels the playing field. And so I support it.”
Robinson: Color of Change avoids campaigns lacking clear theories of change
“So you're not going to see a campaign from Color of Change that says, tell Mitch McConnell to stand up for affirmative action. As much as we may want Mitch McConnell to stand up for affirmative action, there's no amount of Color of Change members signing a pet…”