Racial Preferences Harm Their Beneficiaries, Too
Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley
Riley argues that proponents of affirmative action are ignoring the detrimental impact of the practice on those it purports to help.
“The prevailing view in the academy is that affirmative action is an unalloyed good…Like any public policy, affirmative action involves trade-offs, but supporters are ignoring that reality because good intentions are what matter most to them…”
“After 50 years of racial preferences in higher education, we have plenty of empirical evidence that these policies have done more harm than good to the intended beneficiaries, even if the media shows little interest in reporting it…we have dozens of academic studies, including by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, that show the mismatching of students and schools is detrimental to learning.”
