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Affirmative Action and Sowell's "Inside American Education" • Part 4

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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Diversity Consultants on College Campuses

Soll makes the argument that double standards for performance and beavior engender feelings of resentment among white students. Soel talks about many other side effects of preferential admissions policies for students and faculty. He discusses self segregation by minority students, segregated campus events, as well as the rise of so called diversity consultants on campus. Sol ends chapter six on a very sombre note: Free speech restrictions making ethnic studies courses mandatory provide an impetus to new and ever esculating rounds of double standards and racial backlash. Where will this self reinforcing spiral end? In other countries, group preferences and quotas in higher education have led to widesread bloodshed, as in india, or to outright civil war

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