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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Gloria Oladipo in New York

Affirmative action ruling shows ‘willful ignorance of our reality’, critics say

People protest outside of the supreme court in Washington DC on 29 June.
People protest outside of the supreme court in Washington DC on Thursday. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

Civil rights advocates and progressives have expressed outrage and disappointment following a US supreme court decision that severely limits the right to consider race in college admissions.

The court’s conservative justices ruled on Thursday that admissions policies at Harvard University discriminated against Asian American applicants and at the University of North Carolina (UNC) against white and Asian American applicants, violating the constitution’s equal protection clause.

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