If there is widespread discrimination affirmative action works wonders. When there isn't it just becomes easy street for the well off minorities.
Why can't we just let people in based on testing? Why do we have to punish Asians for other groups failure to prepare?
This is all insanity. Society is short on plumbers and electricians anyway, we should be focusing on those careers, not more Stanford-grad Product Managers.
> Students admitted via affirmative action were 7% more likely to work as managers or directors later in their careers than if the policy were not in effect. Such students also end up with many more years of education than they would otherwise. This means that many of these students would not pursue a higher education degree at all if these places were not reserved for them.
Is the same true for income-based quotas?
Affirmative action is racist by literal definition. In the US and most western countries, racism is seen as undesirable. That is why affirmative action should be illegal.
Brazil is also struggling to determine who gets the benefits of race based affirmative action: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/05/brazils-new-problem-wit...
> The Department of Education in Para, Brazil’s blackest state, attempted to fulfill the decree with a checklist, which leaked to the press. Among the criteria to be scored: Is the job candidate’s nose short, wide and flat? How thick are their lips? Are their gums sufficiently purple? What about their lower jaw? Does it protrude forward? Candidates were to be awarded points per item, like “hair type” and “skull shape.”