Later, it was revised several times and became an important bill affecting countless Americans today, mainly focusing on education and employment. Take care of ethnic minorities, Native Americans, women and other historically excluded groups.
At that time, the left-wing ideological trend thought that "whoever gets good grades will have the priority to go to school", which is unfair to "ethnic minorities", so these vulnerable groups should be "properly taken care of". Correcting racial and group discrimination since the founding of the United States. Because Asians are the hardest-working groups of all ethnic groups in the United States, the biggest victims of this "equal rights" have become them.
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Due to the implementation of the affirmative action act, the situation in the field of education in the United States has changed from one extreme to the other. For example, some educational and scientific research projects have reached the point where non-ethnic minorities cannot apply for admission.
Due to obvious irrationality, recently, several important universities have successively abolished affirmative action laws and set up many programs that "discriminate" most students. Among them, California abolished the implementation of this bill in the state by referendum;
10 years later, Michigan followed closely and kicked the bill open. States such as Missouri and Washington also joined California's "Allies".
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Affirmative Action Act