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You know who AA hurts the most? Asians and Jews. Do you think its fair that asian and jewish students with top scores get rejected from schools so that lesser qualified students can take their place? It's totally racist and wrong.
Nope, it's the affirmative action for white legacies http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/10/25/detailing_bias_in_college_admissions/ that hurt jews and asians. You know, like our dear leader in the white house now. There's affirmative action for geography. If you're a white kid living in Cambridge getting stellar grades and perfect SATs, you have less of a chance to go to Harvard than some white farmboy from Montana with lower grades and SATs. But no one ever calls that affirmative action.
And guess what, at Berkeley and Stanford, white kids with lower SATs and gpas get in before the Asians kids with better grades. Is that not affirmative action for whites? Oh but the same people who trash AA for Latinos and blacks say Asians (it used to be Jews) aren't as "well-rounded".
And because *boys* are doing not as well as girls, there's a growing affirmative action effort for them too.
