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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by chibg10 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:00PM (#17878343)
I find the ACLU's statement wholly unsatisfying. There is a tradeoff here: is unquestionable racism against Asian-Americans justifiable to increase advance African-American participation in higher education? There is also surely a legal question at play.

The ACLU, instead of addressing either matter, launches a political statement announcing its stance without justification. Lost some respect for them here.

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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by SenseiMaster on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:15PM (#17880836)
It annoys me how every official statement from institutions supporting affirmative action doesn't seem to acknowledge that racial discrimination is happening and is actively harming individuals.

Any reasonable person would at least acknowledge the trade-off between racial discrimination and racial diversity.

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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by gizmo686 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:20PM (#17878598)
The ACLU has historically taken the philosophy of defending fundemental rights by defending them for unpopular people (eg. they would defend the right of Nazi's to march in a Jewish neighboorhood).

I don't know if I am looking at their past through rose colored glasses, but their new direction is disturbing. It seems like they are increasingly okay with sacrifing our fundemental rights in favor of short term expediancy.

Having said that, this is still just the start of a change in course. They still do a lot of good work, and they might find their way again.

The bigger problem is that liberalism is dying in the US. The ACLU is the last major liberal public group/movement and they seem to be turning away from it.

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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by creaghpatr on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:23PM (#17878639)
They have already codified a full reversal on that historic position.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclu-retreats-from-free-exp...

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