White perceptions of affirmative-action harm vastly exceed any real harm

Evidence

1994, fewer than 100 charged reverse discrimination; most of those, like most claims about any kind of discrimination, were dismissed due to lack of merit (Stephanopoulos and Edley, 1995: Sec. 6.3; Blumrosen, 1995). Possibly political correctness inhibits firms from complaining about quotas, and perhaps white men suffer under the same constraint when they consider bringing charges of reverse discrimination. But surely a strong legal case would sweep aside those hypothesized constraints at least sometimes. Thus it seems safe to conclude that many more people are exercised by fears of the policy of affirmative action than are harmed by its implementation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1994 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fears of affirmative action far exceed documented harms from it — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1994; Whites’ belief in reverse discrimination vastly exceeds firsthand experience of it — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1991

Broader Connections

• Fears of affirmative action far exceed documented harms from it #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1994