"I am appalled that a student with Chinese heritage must climb a 450-point hill in order to compete against someone who is Black for a seat at UC Berkeley."
Distilling the issue to either: you support "affirmative action" or you don't.
The author of the article clearly does not. They also coincidentally identify as a "Political Activist" associated with a party not traditionally supportive of "affirmative action".
I'm not sure this is the right forum to have a debate on a political issue like this.
Potentially relevant is that the UC system is going to experiment with dropping standardized testing starting next year.
I don't know, arbitrarily making it more difficult for a certain group of people to compete against others based on their race smells kind of like racism to me. Is that even debatable? Where are the pitchforks? I don't think that's politics. It's racism/discrimination right in front of us. Do Asian lives matter?
"I am appalled that a student with Chinese heritage must climb a 450-point hill in order to compete against someone who is Black for a seat at UC Berkeley."
Distilling the issue to either: you support "affirmative action" or you don't.
The author of the article clearly does not. They also coincidentally identify as a "Political Activist" associated with a party not traditionally supportive of "affirmative action".
I'm not sure this is the right forum to have a debate on a political issue like this.
Potentially relevant is that the UC system is going to experiment with dropping standardized testing starting next year.