A New York Times article provided details about discrimination of Asian-Americans applying to Harvard University by means of affirmative action. Due to privacy reasons, the university has so far withheld information concerning admissions data that the students and their attorney, William S. Consovoy, demanded the public release of after they were able to see it in their lawsuit. The group claimed that Harvard tries to compensate for the general higher performance of their race compared to others. A trial is set to take place in January 2019.
Cases of affirmative action have been brought up a number of times, one of which was in regards to students applying to the University of Michigan in 200, when the university used a system that automatically awarded 20 out of 150 points to students of underrepresented minorities.
Affirmative action is often called "positive discrimination" by leftists. This is obviously an oxymoron of a sort, because there is no positive discrimination. If one racial group benefits from a policy based upon ethnicity, another one suffers. This is clearly evident in college admissions. One racial group is helped by the color of their skin, and boots another out of their rightful spot. But as we know, we should not judge others based on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character (or test scores and whatnot, in this case).
Link to Anemona Hartocollis' article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admission.html
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