# Let's debate affirmative action **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 20, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-affirmative-action/681818 "2014-02-20T20:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 286
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-affirmative-action/681818/286 "2014-03-11T01:11:23Z")
> [@Should GM (Genetically Modified) Foods be Abolished?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-gm-genetically-modified-foods-be-abolished/638639/13): > > The OP _is_ a 14 year old boy. I don’t remember where this is from (I closed the window) but it made me shoot coconut cream pie out of my nose. > [@adaher](#): > > The end of affirmative action didn’t decrease the diversity of California universities. And if you increase the presence of some groups, you decrease the presence of others. And as my LA Times article shows, Asians benefitted more from the end of affirmative action in university admissions than whites. Unless you think diversity means white vs non-white, the end of affirmative action reduced proportional diversity. Fewer blacks. Fewer chicanos. Fewer hispanics. Fewer everything except East Asian and Indian, heck there were even fewer white admissions. Now I’m not saying that I agree with affirmative action for the sake of diversity but it certainly can be used to improve diversity. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-affirmative-action/681818)._