a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities
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affirmative action::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | social action |
affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision.
Examples of affirmative action
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Again, the issue here isn't quotas or affirmative action but racial preferences.
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This is why I can't get all worked up about the injustice of affirmative action.
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What, asked another questioner, did the president feel about affirmative action?
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Offhand I can think of only two arguments with any sense for affirmative action.
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This decision only allows the use of affirmative action, it does not require it.
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Yale's affirmative action was about the dismantling of racist historical quotas.
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As Sander and Taylor show, affirmative action sets many students up for failure.
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The Malaysian New Economic Policy or NEP serves as a form of affirmative action.
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Thanks to affirmative action I know the least qualified whites are already gone.
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