Shikha Dalmia on Asian American Hostility to College Affirmative Action

Democrats in California are in a state of shock
at the defeat of their effort to reinstate racial preferences in
university admissions. That’s because the defeat was led not by
evil Republicans but a loyal Democratic constituency:
Asian-Americans.

But what this episode demonstrates, notes Reason Foundation
Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia, is that the zero-sum politics of
divvying up a fixed pie — rather than expanding it — is a losing
game for Democrats in an increasingly diverse America.

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