Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by scohesc on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:11PM (#36522414)

I've heard people make references to the Occupy Wall Street protests a decade+ back being the catalyst for corporations and governments to start using "diversity" as a wedge issue to distract and divide people into groups to keep people from organizing. (Further down the conspiracy rabbit-hole, the CIA has been known to work with entertainment and critical industries to push opinions and ideas to sway the populace)

It really does feel like people weren't at each others throats as much 10 years ago as they seem to be now. It's almost like it's being used as a wedge to divide and distract from more important issues.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by TurkishPoptart on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:26PM (#36522639)

That's because it is.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by trompetenaccoun on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:34PM (#36522781)

But the identity and diversity stuff was a thing long before that time.

Don't get me wrong, politicians and elites are absolutely using identity to play the populace against each other. But this is less part of a grand conspiracy and more the oldest trick in the book of politics, there's evidence of it going back all the way to classic antiquity.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by mrguyorama on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:56PM (#36525099)

Or maybe you just weren't as aware of the problems black people face in america? The amount of times my conservative family members tell me "Such and such wasn't a problem when I was a kid" while completely ignoring the problems proves it isn't a genuine concern.

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