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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]

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376 points undefined1 | 1 comments | 25 Apr 20 00:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.232s | source
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dnautics ◴[25 Apr 20 02:34 UTC] No.22975063[source]▶
Not Harvard, but (being Asian American) this sort of soft characterization as being deficient in personality metrics rings true in my head.

For starters, my father in his full time government job repeatedly got "no leadership potential" reviews. Meanwhile in his part time job with the US Navy, he advanced to the level of captain and in his final act for the Navy led a team that completed its first fully digitized inventory system, saving the Navy billions of dollars, and delivered it under budget and ahead of time. (Fwiw he was non-technical, just "good at making things happen for nerds", his words not mine)

In my personal life, I've encountered several situations where people have expressed to me explicitly or implicitly they didn't consider me to be leader-worthy despite my having successfully managed small teams several times in my career.

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emmelaich ◴[25 Apr 20 12:14 UTC] No.22977521[source]▶
“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”

- H.L. Mencken

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MiroF ◴[25 Apr 20 14:37 UTC] No.22978422[source]▶
Sure, but the (mostly) white and Asian commentators here agitating for an end to affirmative action for under-represented minorities are similarly not doing it just due to their severe opposition to racial discrimination in all forms.

This opposition is just as much, if not more, motivated by people feeling like their class interests are at risk.

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1. TheOperator ◴[25 Apr 20 22:08 UTC] No.22982014[source]▶
These days it's in the class interests of Whites and Asians to be against racial discrimination in all forms which in effect means not being able to be racist officially but not being an effective barrier to unofficial racism. Which is very much in Whites and Asians interests.

Still affirmative action just looks more arbitrary and nonsensical every year. I don't see how anybody can see what's happening to Asians as anything but racially discriminatory and arbitrarily penalizing.