Confusion Ethics and Deceptive Data

Old Tricks and New Twists in the War on Affirmative Action

Tim Wise
9 min readJul 12, 2018

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First, a little history.

For years, those seeking to eliminate affirmative action programs in employment or higher education followed a predictable playbook: find a white man who claimed to have been aggrieved by such efforts and then file suit on his behalf, claiming he had been…

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Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)