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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]

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rurabe ◴[25 Apr 20 06:05 UTC] No.22976007[source]▶
I'm pretty shocked by the lack of empathy here.

Do any of these people railing against affirmative action really think that Native/African/Hispanic Americans should be locked in a self-reinforcing cycle of declining educational and economic outcomes?

Maybe going to your second choice school is an ok tradeoff for trying to raise and entire segment of society from relative poverty and discrimination.

* Am Asian, got rejected by Stanford and Harvard

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1. ramblerman ◴[25 Apr 20 08:18 UTC] No.22976577[source]▶
> Do any of these people railing against affirmative action really think that Native/African/Hispanic Americans should be locked in a self-reinforcing cycle of declining educational and economic outcomes?

Of course not, and it's a terrible strawman argument to frame this as a simple dichotomy of "agree with positive discrimination" or "condemn black people to poverty for ever"

There are many roads to try and resolve this, personally I think it should be bottom up. Instead of the easy political points of enforcing a few quotas on universities and companies.