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Tim Scott: “The use of objective standards is so critically important, and I see this move across the country that somehow we are…”

On the recordApril 26, 2023
The use of objective standards is so critically important, and I see this move across the country that somehow we are going to make the lives, specifically of minorities, better by eliminating objective standards in everything--in education, in credit scores--and that, to me, is insulting as an African American, that the only way for me to be competitive is for you to somehow eliminate the thresholds.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Tim Scott criticizes the elimination of objective standards in various sectors as detrimental to minorities.

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