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Nov. 4, 2022
When many liberals opposed affirmative action
William K.S. Wang
UC Hastings College of the LawWilliam is an emeritus Sullivan professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.
Young people may assume that the affirmative action controversy has always involved liberals versus conservatives. In fact, many liberals once believed that the best way to end racism was for both government and society to be color-blind.
An example of liberal opposition to affirmative action is the following excerpt from Justice Stanley Mosk's 1976 California Supreme Court majority opinion in Bakke v. Regents of the Universit...
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