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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by mlevental on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:12AM (#21135531)
geography isn't a protected class. it's not a class at all. it's a set of circumstances. your skin color and the privileges or liabilities incurred are inescapable.
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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:19AM (#21137388)
> geography isn't a protected class

Frequently it is. Many laws specifically protect "national origin".

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by shadowgovt on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:42AM (#21137656)
Kentucky isn't a "national origin."
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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by f1refly on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:31PM (#21138286)
Kentucky doesn't has the support a specific national origin might have because there are no laws about that yet. It's an analogy.
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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by shadowgovt on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:58PM (#21138543)
If you think "being from Kentucky" should be treated the same as "being from Ireland," you're welcome to make a case to your Congressperson.

Good luck.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by throwaway_law on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:13AM (#21146534)
>Many laws specifically protect "national origin"

What laws? The US Constitution provides significantly greater protections to US Citizens than foreign nationals, as many of rights are not extended to non-citizens.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by mlevental on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:36PM (#21139438)
i love this kind of red herring: we're very obviously talking about intranational geography. as the person below me quips: kentucky isn't a nation of origin.
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