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Re:Harvard Asian-American discrimination case opens with pac... by screye on Monday October 15, 2018 @09:49PM (#18225744)
Oh, I see how it is. Black people we're never discriminated against in democracy, because they always had 1 vote per person. It is just that white people got an extra 0.66 every time.

I know it is hyperbole. But college admissions are zero sum games. Giving points to one person, is the same as taking those away from another.

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Re:Harvard Asian-American discrimination case opens with pac... by rayiner on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:22AM (#18229585)
You know black slaves couldn’t vote right.
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Re:Harvard Asian-American discrimination case opens with pac... by screye on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:06AM (#18229967)
This is extremely embarrassing for me. (my only weak excuse being I am not American)

I thought that there was a period in american history after the civil war where black people's vote counted for 3/5th of a white person.

Turns out it was how electoral votes were decided, in which only slave owner voted before the civil war.

Well, you learning something new every day. I am an idiot.

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Re:Harvard Asian-American discrimination case opens with pac... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:14PM (#18233756)
Not an idiot. "Less knowledgeable about details of how a country other than your own was governed more than a century ago" does not deserve the label "idiot".
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