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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by munchbunny on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:51PM (#21130476)
No, they are not.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/

Diversity efforts sit in a gray area that is nowhere close to race quotas.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by ummonk on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:47PM (#21131692)
Race quotas are illegal in both employment and admissions but affirmative action is not.

The trick is that affirmative action is sold as an effort to negate other discrimination.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/a/affirmative-action/

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by xhroot on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:38PM (#21130987)
I-1000 is literally called "Affirmative Action and Diversity Commission Measure"

https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat...

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by munchbunny on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:46PM (#21131058)
It's a referendum. It's not law yet.

You'd be more right if it was passed, but it's not.

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