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CMV: Affirmative Action is fundamentally racist and encourages racial minorities to drop out of college.

For many schools, Black and Latinx students are given a substantial boost to their profile due to their race. This is literally the definition of race-based discrimination, and encourages less qualified candidates to enter difficult schools.

As a result, instead of attending a target school where they can thrive many students are attending reach schools where they struggle to succeed, and end up dropping out of college or transferring schools.

Instead, I would like better SAT and ACT prep to be given to poor neighborhoods and schools' budgets and curricula to be improved.
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> This is literally the definition of race-based discrimination

That is correct. No one denies that. It is considered a justified form of discrimination.

> encourages less qualified candidates to enter difficult schools.

That is false. Affirmative Action does not lower the quality of candidates. It asks employers, schools, etc to consider historic exclusion of a group when all other factors are equal.

It's a cliché'd argument to say that "affirmative action in the workplace or school is bad because employment and education should be based on selecting the best qualified candidates." If you put it in other words, it basically implies that visible minorities are only getting jobs over qualified candidates because they are visible minorities. Which is not the case.

Affirmative action is the recognition that discrimination did occur in the past, and that corrective measures are now necessary to ensure equality of opportunity. The intergenerational effects of that discrimination creates an unequal playing field in employment and education. To correct for that inequality, we require that employers and educational institutions take into consideration a factor that they would have ignored, again, all else being equal.