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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "And hypocrisy runs deep in the American fabric, notably in the case of affirmative action." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "There have been challenges to affirmative action in both schools and workplaces over the years." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "The fudge was again to say that affirmative action is constitutional so long as it treats race as one factor among many, and does not substitute for individualized review of the applicants." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "But Grutter in 2003 came with an interesting addendum: Affirmative action was supposed to be a short-term, temporary policy, while society worked out the larger issues." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Affirmative action, which the Supreme Court strained to declare constitutional, allowed a nation that pretended to strive toward equality to instead enact the opposite, by upholding separate standards based on skin color." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The Court ruled that a university's use of racial quotas in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of affirmative action to accept more minority applicants was constitutional." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Barack Obama, who previously said affirmative action becomes a diminishing tool for us to achieve racial equality in this society, has been quiet about Biden's criteria." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "The irony is that Joe Biden's decision to restrict his pool of Supreme Court candidates to black women would be unlikely to meet the Supreme Court's own tests for affirmative action in academia." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "One judge who reportedly counted among Biden's top three candidates was Leondra Kruger, who would have been the first person in more than 40 years to move from a state-level court to the Supreme Court." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "In choosing Ketanji Brown Jackson, whose confirmation hearings begin today, as his Supreme Court pick, Biden made it the policy of the United States to select jurists for its highest court on the basis of race." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Biden cynically aounced his pick in the midst of the Ukrainian invasion to fit it into the final hours of Black History Month." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "If Biden truly wanted a diverse Supreme Court, he might try to pull a few more judges out of non-Ivy League law schools." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 02: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) meets with President Joe Bidens Supreme Court Nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 in Washington, DC." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "It was exactly two years to the day before he aounced Ketanji Brown Jackson as his Supreme Court pick that Biden, on the debate stage in South Carolina days before a primary he could not afford to lose, first made his pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Biden bypasses the Court's basic rule -- race can only be one factor among many, not the decisive one -- in favor of a straight-out-of-Birmingham aouncement that he would only consider candidates of one race for the job." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Setting Ukraine aside for a moment: Joe Biden has abandoned the pursuit of a race-neutral society." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "No one will challenge President Biden." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Biden's decision clearly violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits making employment decisions because of an individual's skin color, national origin, sex, religion, or race in almost all cases." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Except, apparently, if you're Joe Biden." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "But let's not go too hard on Joe Biden." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The thing is, Joe Biden is no crusader." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Anyone remember Biden's treatment of Anita Hill?" | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Biden doubled down on the worst sin of Jim Crow: insisting that a person's color matters." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "A Georgetown law professor who dared raise concerns about Biden's approach found himself suspended." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Assume some of those women are too moderate for Biden, and you are left with a tiny handful of people who even meet Joe's minimum qualifications." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Assume some of those women are too moderate for Biden, and you are left with a tiny handful of people who even meet Joe's minimum qualifications." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Barack Obama, who previously said affirmative action becomes a diminishing tool for us to achieve racial equality in this society, has been quiet about Biden's criteria." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Barack Obama, who previously said affirmative action becomes a diminishing tool for us to achieve racial equality in this society, has been quiet about Biden's criteria." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "As a panderer, the 2022-version of Joe Biden lies about being arrested during the civil-rights movement, while the 1960s-version would not have been caught within miles of a demonstration." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Biden has a long history of racism, including referring to Barack Obama as the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Biden has a long history of racism, including referring to Barack Obama as the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Or maybe Kamala Harris' campaign for president, when she blasted Joe's racism as having personally impacted her as a young girl?" | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Or maybe Kamala Harris' campaign for president, when she blasted Joe's racism as having personally impacted her as a young girl?" | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Biden of course follows others down this cynical path, like Hillary Clinton, who helped pass a crime bill that led to the incarceration of scores of black youths and turned around to do an Amos 'n Andy accent in Selma as she sought the black vote." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Biden of course follows others down this cynical path, like Hillary Clinton, who helped pass a crime bill that led to the incarceration of scores of black youths and turned around to do an Amos 'n Andy accent in Selma as she sought the black vote." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "The irony is that Joe Biden's decision to restrict his pool of Supreme Court candidates to black women would be unlikely to meet the Supreme Court's own tests for affirmative action in academia." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
58% : And hypocrisy runs deep in the American fabric, notably in the case of affirmative action.58% :There have been challenges to affirmative action in both schools and workplaces over the years.
55% : The fudge was again to say that affirmative action is constitutional so long as it treats race as one factor among many, and does not substitute for individualized review of the applicants.
52% : But Grutter in 2003 came with an interesting addendum: Affirmative action was supposed to be a short-term, temporary policy, while society worked out the larger issues.
48% : Affirmative action, which the Supreme Court strained to declare constitutional, allowed a nation that pretended to strive toward equality to instead enact the opposite, by upholding separate standards based on skin color.
44% : The Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional.
27% : Barack Obama, who previously said "affirmative action becomes a diminishing tool for us to achieve racial equality in this society," has been quiet about Biden's criteria.
20% :The irony is that Joe Biden's decision to restrict his pool of Supreme Court candidates to black women would be unlikely to meet the Supreme Court's own tests for affirmative action in academia.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.