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Throwback Thursday: White People Are Fragile

Remember when affirmative action was under attack by white mediocrity?

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Michael Harriot
Mar 20, 2025
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This post originally appeared on NegusWhoRead on June 23, 2016.

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Yesterday, Abigail Fisher lost her Supreme Court case that sought to overturn affirmative action at the University of Texas. Even though Fisher’s grades were lower than almost every student who applied, there are people who still thought she could get in because h…

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