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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by badlucklottery on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:05PM (#17878412)
>Perfect equality is not possible.

Of course but this is one of those "perfect is the enemy of good" situations. Right now we're doing very little and it shows in Title I schools.

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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by mantas on Thursday August 30, 2018 @04:53PM (#17880647)
My point is that affirmative action will stay relevant as long as there's no perfect equality. Which is not possible.

Even in today's situation affirmative action is wrong. We should accept people by merit, period.

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