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The End of Affirmative Action

Strict Scrutiny

CHAPTER

The Court's Opposition to Race Based Admissions

Iqbal: The court is very critical of the racial categories that universities use, including things like treating Asian American as a unified category rather than South Asian or East Asian. He's especially mad that they don't break out Middle Eastern as a distinct category. It suggests that schools are using race as a stereotype because of how it groups the students into different racial categories. And at some point, you know, the race conscious measures must end.

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