A Yale University student is seen on campus in New Haven, Connecticut, in November 2010. The Justice Department accused Yale University on August 13, 2020 of violating US civil rights law by illegally discriminating against white and Asian-American applicants. Yale has dismissed the department’s finding as “meritless”. Photo: AFP
Opinion
Opinion
Why US universities’ affirmative action policies are unfair to Asian Americans
- Claiming there are structural barriers and trying to rectify them through affirmative action assumes that, in the absence of such barriers, ability would be evenly distributed across groups
- Moreover, the policy seeks to redress an injustice to one group by penalising another
A Yale University student is seen on campus in New Haven, Connecticut, in November 2010. The Justice Department accused Yale University on August 13, 2020 of violating US civil rights law by illegally discriminating against white and Asian-American applicants. Yale has dismissed the department’s finding as “meritless”. Photo: AFP
