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Wait. I thought Republicans were fine with discrimination by private companies?
A university can and should be able to set any admission criteria they like, even one that takes into account race. They do it to promote racial diversity in their school which is a big plus for them. Depending on their viewpoint, one person's racial equality can look like another's person's racial discrimination. It's just the nature of the beast.
Hint: Any person with even a tiny fraction of Native American ancestry and with decent testing scores and grades gets a full-ride scholarship to just about anywhere. Maybe White people should sue too.
And every single one of those Asian kids worked their asses off to get in. Harvard would be more than 20% if they didn't rig the game against them. It's not like Chinese and Japanese Americans have a long history of privilege and power in the USA. Quite the opposite. See also, Japanese Internment Camps and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Everyone at Harvard worked hard to get in. Big deal.
Harvard has a right to determine the makeup of their student body, and they make sure that Asians are over represented. They aren’t gonna go so far as to let their student body NOT be majority white and affluent. That’s not gonna happen. They wouldn’t be Harvard if they did that. Money and prestige is at stake, and they can afford to be only so non elitist to a point.
They aren’t gonna do ANYTHING to stop the Malia Obamas and Jared Kushners from getting in ...meritorious or not.
Harvard tries to represent America the best it can. The U.S. is less than 5% Asian, Harvard is 20% Asian. Harvard is already stretching itself as it is.
^^^ People holding up racial proportionality goals as if they are obviously superior to meritocracy from a moral standpoint. This is how bad things have gotten...
^^^ People holding up racial proportionality goals as if they are obviously superior to meritocracy from a moral standpoint. This is how bad things have gotten...
Is that what Harvard was doing when back in the day they did everything they could to make sure their student body was overwhelmingly WASP?
Or are we just supposed to forget that period? Especially seeing as how that period in Harvard’s history is their longest.
Merit is subjective. Harvard has a right to determine merit based on its own desires.
What is funny is many black folks think institutes of higher learning are inherently racist due to policies that kept blacks from applying until forced to since the 1960's. This would also apply to more Republican institutions like Duke University as well so its not just a Liberal vs what ever the GOP is now. But we also understand attending schools like Harvard is the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket to 1% so we attend the Ivy League colleges whenever possible. Money is the great equalizer to racism, blacks know, money=access and even if someone is racist they will kiss your butt to suck from the money teet.
Americans do anything for money, will disregard all those BS "closely held beliefs" for the greenbacks, even if those beliefs include me being inferior .
Getting into Harvard and other ultra high level universities should be a strict meritocracy. I have zero problem with it being 100% Asian if that is who wins the race. In any area outside of social sciences, "diversity" is bovine scatterings.
Not sure if you read the lawsuit, but it alleges that Harvard puts a huge emphasis on things other than academics like likability something in winch Asian students feel like disadvantages them.
If you can quantify "things other than academics" in measurable terms then you have a point. If you can't then you're just regurgitating the Harvard line of BS trying to absolve themselves for racial bigotry.
Honestly, would that explanation suffice if the institution in question was overwhelmingly Conservative or if things were being slanted in favor of white men? "We look at other stuff." Okay, what other stuff and how do you measure that? I expect I could keep women and blacks out of a ritzy country club for all eternity if I can just invoke, "We look at other stuff."
Not sure if you read the lawsuit, but it alleges that Harvard puts a huge emphasis on things other than academics like likability something in winch Asian students feel like disadvantages them.
And according to that Prager U video the Harvard interviewers report Asians just as high on those other factors but the decider in admissions lowers the interviewers score to make his numbers.
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Originally Posted by biggunsmallbrains
Which race does Harvard think is superior?
For admission?
1. African Americans more and more the children of recent African immigrants and not the ancestors of slaves and Jim Crow victims.
2. Latinos
3. Whites
4. Asians even if Asians as a racial class can make a credible case for official discrimination second only to African Americans being applied to their grandparents.
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This is how bad things have gotten...
