Question

Why was the issue in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) sometimes called "reverse discrimination"?

Answer 1

B. Bakke was a white male who had better grades than some minority applicants.

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Why?

Becuase of Affirmative Action. AA is giving rights to minorities, and thus why it was called reverse discrimination.

Answer 2

OPTION 2: Bakke was a white male who had better grades than some minority applicants.

Allan Bakke was a thirty-five-year-old white man who had applied for admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis twice and rejected, even though the university reserved 16% of its admission places for minority applicants. Bakke, qualified as a minority applicant and his test scores were high relating to other minority students admitted before.

Bakke demanded in the Supreme Court that he was excluded on the basis of race, he suffered “reverse discrimination”.