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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by Symmetry on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:04PM (#17879090)
There's a tendency in many fields to take a piece of jargon specific to that field and insist that non-members of that field also use it the same way. Forming jargon is healthy in a field but trying to enforce it outside the field isn't. A biologist who tries to correct you when you talk about an octopus having tentacles is wrong to do so. And a critical race theorist correcting you when you say that James Strom Thurmond was racist is equally wrong.

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