After Affirmative Action
The Good Fight
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The Importance of Diversity in the US
The strongest justification for affirmative action in the United States is specifically tied to historical injustice and some desire to rectify it. Given the reality of slavery and Jim Crow it would indeed be troubling if today Harvard and Yale and Stanford only had a tiny number of black students. So I see this sort of compelling justification for some form of rectificatory justice there. The one of the interesting things about that court case was that it clunked for the slightly different permissible grounds of diversity.
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