The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

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    1 year ago

    Who is going to teach you to be a carpinter if your parents don’t know and the school doesn’t want you because you’re non-white? This also include preparation to attend that school. To break a cycle of poverty people need to be granted a chance to escape. Education is one path to give people tools.

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      Again, I understand why affirmative action is a thing and why it’s good. My point is that the top level comment doesn’t actually answer why it’s a good thing. It doesn’t really make a coherent argument at all.