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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by ekianjo on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:05PM (#17335463)
> As such, they are not helping society to become post-racial

It did always use to be like that. In the 70s and 80s there was a focus back on individuals regardless of their race, gender or origin. This trend to put quotas goes with the wave of political correctness that started pretty much in the early 90s.

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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by dogruck on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:35PM (#17335625)
Yes, but when they used purely merit-based standards, some groups consistently scored lower than other groups. That was deemed unacceptable, so discrimination was reintroduced to the process.
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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by skookumchuck on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:21PM (#17335556)
Affirmative Action started much earlier than that.
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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by ekianjo on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:04AM (#17336109)
At the government level, certainly - but in the realm of private enterprise this is way more recent.
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