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Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by kennywinker on Saturday October 07, 2017 @02:36PM (#15425002)
I assume you're referring to "affirmative action" type policies. Calling them discrimination seems to me to be intentionally ignoring the history of discrimination affirmative action is trying to undo.

Yes, taken in isolation it is discrimination - but a lot of good things taken in isolation seem like bad things. Prision seems barbaric without taking the crime into account.

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Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by gizmo686 on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:12PM (#15425201)
We are talking about mechanisms for discrimination. US collage admissions certainly provide an interesting case.
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Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by kennywinker on Saturday October 07, 2017 @05:29PM (#15425807)
When you start comparing them the differences are obvious and significant. The most important one is that US college admissions weighting is happening in a transparent way, and it was and is subject to intense debate, discussion, and quasi-democratic processes.
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