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Wenyuan Wu: "France must not repeat our mistakes on positive discrimination"

2021-04-15T16:58:41.932Z


INTERVIEW - Executive Director of the Californians for Equal Rights Association, Wenyuan Wu sees this victory as a sign of a profound change at work in public opinion, but which is met with resistance from powerful pressure groups trained by the media, ...


Executive director of the

Californians for Equal Rights Association

, Wenyuan Wu sees the massive rejection of the principle of affirmative action by California in November as a sign of a profound change at work in American opinion.

She says this principle of discrimination has failed to improve the representation of black and Hispanic minorities in major universities.

LE FIGARO.

- What does the rejection of affirmative action by California, one of the most progressive states in the United States, mean?

Wenyuan WU.

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The concept of positive discrimination is starting to expire in the United States, and I hope that France will not make the mistake we made by taking this path.

There has been a lot of confusion about the campaign we waged last year against Proposition 16, which was an attempt to reinstate these kinds of measures in California.

I am absolutely not opposed to the need to allow minorities

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Source: lefigaro

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