Top 5 Ways Affirmative Action Hurts Minorities

2. Some Academic Positions are Set Up to Employ Members of Specific Minorities, and all
other people, including those from Other Minorities, Need not Apply.

Imagine if you had a position for professor of physics and astronomy at some university, but it was only for whites. Wouldn’t we think that was racist? What if the best candidate for the position did not happen to be white? But there are such positions for Blacks and Hispanics and Native Americans, excluding everyone else.

People in favor of affirmative action might argue that whites deserve to be excluded from applying to positions like this because of the centuries of oppression of native Americans and African-Americans and Hispanic Americans. But did you know that there is a long history of government oppression of Asians in the United States, too? There was the Chinese Exclusion Act. There were the Japanese Internment camps. And, of course, there has been discrimination against Europeans, too. What about the Irish slaves? Where is the affirmative action to atone for that?