Summary Of Discrimination By Another Name

In the editorial, “Discrimination by Another Name,” by the Washington Times, the author talks about the different problems of discrimination in colleges accepting people of a certain minority, and discarding others. The editorial also uses different rhetorical devices, connotation, and bias to affect their argument and the audience’s opinions on it. The author mostly talks about how it is wrong that colleges are still allowed to do this, even though they should not be able to. Overall, though, the author’s argument was mostly solid, except for a few times throughout the editorial when the author expressed their opinions. “Discrimination by Another Name,” an editorial about people not being accepted into different colleges, due to their race,
An example of this being used is when the author says, “They should find an early opportunity to throw out Grutter v. Bollinger as well, the 2003 ruling approving the policy of the University of Michigan Law School to use race as a factor in admissions,”(Washington Times). This instance is connotative because the author uses the phrase, “...throw out...”, to suggest to just throw away all of the discrimination happening in the colleges, but this phrase is also used to represent throwing away the trash, which makes it be in a negative tone. Another instance on which this happens, is when the author says, “Justices can remedy this, and damage to the law, by throwing out the University of Texas affirmative-action policy,”(Washington Times). This instance uses connotation by including the words, remedy and damage in the same sentence, but they have opposite connotations, which makes them contradict each other and gives the audience things to think about. To sum it up, the article uses connotation to give meaning to the main points and make the audience feel something about the