As implemented in America today whites who have never done anything to hurt any Black are discriminated in favor of Blacks who have never been discriminated against by any white.
The hard working white and asian kids who are denied access to the college of their choice simply because of their skin color are being persecuted so rich white leftists can virtue signal their superiority.
Race based affirmative action is also racist in that it assumes that Blacks and Hispanics are incapable of competing with whites. Given that even though Japanese Americans were put in prison camps by the Democrats during WWII they now make more money, on average, than whites it's clear that America is not a fundamentally racist nation.
Blacks have trouble competing not because they're intellectually inferior but because Democrats have worked hard to keep a large fraction of Black Americans in unsafe locations with lots of crime and drug dealing, no jobs, and horrible schools. Put Blacks in safe neighborhoods with good schools and they excel. But any attempt to end the horrible conditions under which far too many Blacks live is declared to be "racist" by Democrats.
Conservative have confidence in the ability of Blacks which is why we oppose race based affirmative action while supporting changes. Democrats, the party of racism since it was founded by a slave owner, don't believe that Blacks can succeed without the help of white leftists.
A third reason that race based affirmative action is racist is that it hurts Blacks. The vast majority of Black professionals are fully competent but the idea that they may have gotten where they are because they were given special treatment which involves lower standards impugns their achievements.
Further a Black who would excel at a second tier college will probably crash and burn at a first tier college; just as a white who was let into a school he wasn't ready for would. We see this over and over. Yet because affirmative action is just virtue signaling for the leftists who don't actually care if Blacks are helped the left never tries to change affirmative action so it actually helps Blacks. If the left cared about Blacks they'd be structuring a policy that actually worked rather than one that just makes leftists feel good about themselves.
A fourth racist aspect of race based affirmative action is that it creates racism. Back in the old Democrat run south Black people who saw less competent whites steal their jobs were quite reasonably angry at white people. But what the left ignores is that white parents who see their kid denied a slot at the college of her dreams while Blacks who have much worse records get in will also feel angry. Most will not become racists but some will.
Now there is an alternative to race based affirmative action that wouldn't have all these problems. If instead of giving every Black, including people like Obama's daughters, special privileges over every white, including dirt poor white people, base affirmative action on where the kids come from. For example it makes perfect sense to give a kid who goes to the failed Democrat inner city schools a boost on their SAT scores because they're not competing on a level playing field with kids who go to safe, well run suburban schools. Recognizing that a kid who went to the hell holes that pass for public schools in Democrat run cities who got say a 1000 on their SAT would probably have gotten a 1200 if they'd gone to a safe suburban school isn't racist it's simply being rational. So long as every kid who is in the situation, irrespective of their race, is treated the same then we can help undo some of the damage caused by Democrats ghettoization of Blacks without discriminating against whites and asians.
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