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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by lordgrenville on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:43PM (#21131039)
>For example, both the Confederacy and Apartheid South Africa, two regimes obsessed with racial classification, never even considered that Jews might not be white.

Not true about South Africa:

"Shortly after the Union of South Africa received dominion status in 1910, the new Boer rulers proposed to re-classify the Jews as "coloured" because they originally came from the Middle East, and hence were not really European. The Jews of South Africa fought tooth and nail to retain their privileged status as "Whites""

https://www.quora.com/Were-Jews-during-South-African-aparthe...

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by dcolkitt on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:47PM (#21131075)
Do you have a citation for that other than Quora?
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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by lordgrenville on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:56PM (#21131158)
No. It's something I heard growing up in SA, and I thought there'd be lots of sources about it online, but that was all I could find. It's possible that it's a myth - happy to hear from someone who knows more.
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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by dcolkitt on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:16PM (#21131363)
It's definitely possible. But I'd be skeptical that the sentiment was widespread.

Right around the same time the Oppenheimers were becoming the wealthiest and one of the most powerful families in South Africa. Despite being ethnically Jewish, I've never once heard of them facing any discrimination from the apartheid regime or the broader SA public.

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