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Re:Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in... by jorblumesea on Friday October 19, 2018 @10:44PM (#18261435)
How is what Harvard is doing supported by that example? They are giving preferential treatment to certain groups or ethnicities, not actively discriminating against any certain group. If you went to a restaurant and someone that was in line after you got seated before simply because of their ethnicity, that's not the same as not being served at all right?
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Re:Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in... by lalaland1125 on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:33PM (#18261594)
If there are a limited number of seats it's exactly the same as not being served at all.
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Re:Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in... by jjeaff on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:32AM (#18262369)
I'm sorry sir, but you've been bumped from this flight. Because someone from a more favorable race showed up.

You'll have to try and catch the next flight. We have one departing next year.

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