What that lady did IS affirmative action.
policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to include particular groups that were historically discriminated against based on their ethnicity in areas in which such groups are underrepresented, mistreated or suffer from lack of public support — such as education and employment.
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The nature of affirmative-action policies varies from region to region and exists on a spectrum from a hard quota to merely targeting encouragement for increased participation. Some countries use a quota system, reserving a certain percentage of government jobs, political positions, and school vacancies for members of a certain group; an example of this is the reservation system in India.
In some other jurisdictions where quotas are not used, minority-group members are given preference or special consideration in selection processes. In the United States, affirmative action by executive order originally meant selection without regard to race but preferential treatment was widely used in college admissions, as upheld in the 2003 Supreme Court case Grutter v. Bollinger, until 2023, when this was overturned in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
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Methods of implementation[ edit]
QuotasMarketing/advertising to groups that the affirmative action is intended to increaseSpecific training or emulation actions for identified audiencesRelaxation of selection criteria applied to a target audience's
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BTW the largest group or affirmative action beneficiaries are white women.
Asian-Americans can be and are both beneficiaries and penalized by affirmative action. By hiring Asians, you can increase non-white employment without hiring blacks. An example: a union I was once a member of .... was being pressured to admit black members but got around that by admitting a Japanese guy. The folks who told me of that thought it was pretty clever. People who hate blacks usually don't object to Asians. Just a fact of life.
Also btw, affirmative action is illegal in your home state:
Some states such as California ( California Civil Rights Initiative), Michigan ( Michigan Civil Rights Initiative), and Washington ( Initiative 200) have passed constitutional amendments banning public institutions, including public schools, from practicing affirmative action within their respective states. In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court held that "States may choose to prohibit the consideration of racial preferences in governmental decisions". By that time eight states, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Michigan, Florida, Washington and California, had already banned affirmative action.
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