Asians need to score 140 points higher?

The alarming aspect of this bill is that it extends to government contracts as well. Reading the wikipedia article for this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Assembly_Constituti..., I see that one of the primary motivations is to give women and minority-owned businesses 'their fair share'. If we apportion everything according to race and sex in this manner, where do we stop? It is reasonable to have affirmative action to help advance young children (integration in schools, for example), but is affirmative action for college-goers and government contracts appropriate?

The article essentially comes down to this quote:

"I am appalled that a student with Chinese heritage must climb a 450-point hill in order to compete against someone who is Black for a seat at UC Berkeley."

Distilling the issue to either: you support "affirmative action" or you don't.

The author of the article clearly does not. They also coincidentally identify as a "Political Activist" associated with a party not traditionally supportive of "affirmative action".

I'm not sure this is the right forum to have a debate on a political issue like this.

Potentially relevant is that the UC system is going to experiment with dropping standardized testing starting next year.