reverse discrimination

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He argued that “reverse discrimination is as wrong as the primary variety it seeks to correct.”

From New York Times

“It galled him so much that people were talking about reverse discrimination. Where were they when there was outright discrimination?” said Randall Kennedy, the Harvard law professor, who clerked for Marshall a few years after Bakke.

From New York Times

As the Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy writes in his 2013 book, “For Discrimination,” “Every major step toward undoing racial oppression in America has been met with the charge that it constitutes reverse discrimination against whites and unfair preference for people of color.”

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Up to 13,000 Black and other minority farmers could’ve seen relief through the effort, but many White farmers and lawmakers sued, arguing that the payments were reverse discrimination.

From Washington Post

After Uber announced in 2020 that its food-delivery branch, Uber Eats, would waive fees for Black-owned businesses, Consovoy McCarthy arranged for some 31,000 complainants to claim reverse discrimination through arbitration, leaving the company owing as much as $92 million.

From New York Times