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Some Call It “Positive Discrimination,” but Affirmative Action Is Still Wrong
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“We do know that those negatively affected by positive discrimination will be bitter and those who benefit from it will always be under a lingering doubt that they were chosen as tokens, not on merit.”
Political commentator Erick Erickson debated “positive discrimination” at an Oxford Union forum. His side opposed the practice, and they were victorious.
Group Calls for Legal Person Status for a Chimpanzee
“This petition asks this court to issue a writ recognizing that Tommy [the Chimp] is not a legal thing to be possessed by respondents, but rather is a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental right not to be imprisoned.”
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