US students on why affirmative action is crucial: 'They need our voices'

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Published Oct 31, 2022
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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.


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6 negative sentiments for Nancy Pelosi
2 negative sentiments for Hillary Clinton
1 negative sentiment for Joe Biden


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Affirmative Action

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Nancy Pelosi
Hillary Clinton
Joe Biden

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8% "I'm thinking a lot about how different my life, my brother's life, would be if affirmative action hadn't been in place.""
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 ..."

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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.

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