Wait, Weren’t Most People Opposed To Affirmative Action?
I am all for chasing trauma and making myself the victim — it’s one of my rare gifts — so I love it when SCOTUS drops some turd bomb on America in the middle of a weekday and everyone has to run and try to hot take it. Obviously Dobbs, which ended Roe, was a big one. Yesterday felt like a big one. Affirmative action is done! But wait. I thought I’ve read and seen for years that most people didn’t like affirmative action of late. Hmmm. Is that right?
Their ruling appears to align with public opinion. Most Americans oppose the consideration of race or ethnicity in college admissions, surveys have found. Even in liberal California, the public has voted twice to prohibit affirmative action. (Americans’ opinions can shift somewhat depending on how the survey question is framed.)
