
US students on why affirmative action is crucial: 'They need our voices'
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Policy Leaning Analysis
This article includes the following sentiments, providing an average bias score of 4% Conservative:
- 5 positive sentiments and 4 negative sentiments for Affirmative Action.
""I'm thinking a lot about how different my life, my brother's life, would be if affirmative action hadn't been in place.""
""There's a school of thought around this case that perhaps there's a certain point at which affirmative action might no longer be needed."
"Now an assistant principal at the Social Justice school, a charter school in north-east Washington DC, Cole recalled that during her freshman year, in 2012, a white student had published an op-ed for the student newspaper decrying affirmative action when the US supreme court took up Blum's earlier case against the University of Texas at Austin, sparking debate on campus."
""Without affirmative action, I would not have the community that I have today," Wang says."
"Wang says before she went to school in the US, she and her family felt sympathetic to misleading claims that affirmative action took opportunities away from Asian American students."
"That's not what affirmative action does," Polanco says."
Politician Portrayal Analysis:
This article includes the following Politician Portrayal sentiments, providing an average sentiment of 0% Neutral and bias score of N/A:
2 negative sentiments for Hillary Clinton
1 negative sentiment for Joe Biden
"Joe Biden condemns 'despicable' attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband"
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"Joe Biden condemns 'despicable' attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband"
This is a negative sentiment.
"Police in San Francisco have said the suspect in last week's attack, identified as David DePape, 42, broke into the Pelosi family's Pacific Heights home early on Friday and confronted Mr Pelosi, demanding to know, "Where is Nancy?""
This is a negative sentiment.
"The tweet, which he later deleted, linked to an article by the Santa Monica Observer, an outlet that previously said Hillary Clinton died on 11 September and was replaced with a body double."
This is a negative sentiment.
"The tweet, which he later deleted, linked to an article by the Santa Monica Observer, an outlet that previously said Hillary Clinton died on 11 September and was replaced with a body double."
This is a negative sentiment.
"Elon Musk tweeted a link to an unfounded rumour about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband - just days after he bought the platform sparking fears it would no longer seek to limit misinformation and hate speech."
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"Read more:Nancy Pelosi 'heartbroken and traumatised' over life-threatening attack on husband"
This is a negative sentiment.
"The two men struggled over a hammer before officers responding to a 911 call to the home saw DePape strike Mr Pelosi at least once, police said."
This is a negative sentiment.
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Affirmative ActionPoliticians:
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Sentiments
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6% "Now an assistant principal at the Social Justice school, a charter school in north-east Washington DC, Cole recalled that during her freshman year, in ..."
4% "Wang says before she went to school in the US, she and her family felt sympathetic to misleading claims that affirmative action took opportunities ..."
4% "In the 1960s, after John F Kennedy first ordered government contractors to take affirmative action to combat racial discrimination, colleges and universities developed policies ..."
2% "That's not what affirmative action does, Polanco says.""
-6% "A comprehensive study of California's colleges and universities found that enrollment of Black and Latino students suffered after voters approved a state ballot initiative ..."
-6% "Without affirmative action, I would not have the community that I have today, Wang says.""
-8% "Chelsea Wang, a Harvard sophomore who grew up in China before she went to high school in suburban New Jersey as a teenager, noted ..."
-8% "There's a school of thought around this case that perhaps there's a certain point at which affirmative action might no longer be needed.""
-16% The two men struggled over a hammer before officers responding to a 911 call to the home saw DePape strike Mr Pelosi at least ..."
We have listed the top 10 sentiments. More sentiments do exist. Please review the full article for more information.
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
54% : "I'm thinking a lot about how different my life, my brother's life, would be if affirmative action hadn't been in place."53% : Now an assistant principal at the Social Justice school, a charter school in north-east Washington DC, Cole recalled that during her freshman year, in 2012, a white student had published an op-ed for the student newspaper decrying affirmative action when the US supreme court took up Blum's earlier case against the University of Texas at Austin, sparking debate on campus.
52% : In the 1960s, after John F Kennedy first ordered government contractors to "take affirmative action" to combat racial discrimination, colleges and universities developed policies to further diversify who enrolled.
52% :Wang says before she went to school in the US, she and her family felt sympathetic to misleading claims that affirmative action took opportunities away from Asian American students.
51% : That's not what affirmative action does," Polanco says.
47% : A comprehensive study of California's colleges and universities found that enrollment of Black and Latino students suffered after voters approved a state ballot initiative banning affirmative action at public entities in 1996.
47% : "Without affirmative action, I would not have the community that I have today," Wang says.
46% :Chelsea Wang, a Harvard sophomore who grew up in China before she went to high school in suburban New Jersey as a teenager, noted that the plaintiffs in the cases against Harvard and UNC portrayed "affirmative action as a zero-sum game between Asian Americans and other people of color".
46% :"There's a school of thought around this case that perhaps there's a certain point at which affirmative action might no longer be needed.
*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.