Adversity.net was a website dedicated to opposing affirmative action and other

race-conscious policies A race-conscious policy is a policy that aims to improve the conditions of racial minorities. In the United States, such policies are typically aimed at improving the status of African-Americans. Many different kinds of race-conscious policies exist ...

. The site criticized such policies on the grounds that they adversely affect

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, and it claimed to have been established "for victims of

reverse discrimination Reverse discrimination is a term for discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group. Groups may be defined in terms of ethnicity, gender identity, nationality ...

History

Adversity.net was founded by businessman Tim Fay in 1997. Fay claims that he was the victim of reverse discrimination when, in 1987, the

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(FEMA) prohibited his four-person firm FayComm from bidding on a potential contract. Instead, FEMA awarded the contract to Technical Resources, Inc., a 100-person firm which the government had deemed "disadvantaged."

Reception in academia

Sociologist

Fred Pincus Fred L. Pincus (born September 6, 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American sociologist and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Maryland—Baltimore County, where he taught for 44 years. He is known for researching claims ...

describes Adversity.net as "the premier site" promoting the idea that "whites are hurt" by race-conscious policies such as affirmative action. He also criticizes the site for misleadingly equating "goals" of affirmative action policies with

racial quota Racial quotas in employment and education are numerical requirements for hiring, promoting, admitting and/or graduating members of a particular racial group. Racial quotas are often established as means of diminishing racial discrimination, ad ...

Carol M. Swain Carol Miller Swain (born March 7, 1954) is a retired professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University. A frequent television analyst, she is the author and editor of several books. Her interests include race relations, immigration, ...

wrote that adversity.net was an example of a website that was created to enable "whites who believe they have been victims of affirmative action programs to share their sense of grievance and outrage with a sympathetic audience of fellow whites."

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://adversity.net/ Internet properties established in 1997 1997 establishments in the United States Opposition to affirmative action American conservative websites