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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by ThrowawayR2 on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:25PM (#22975014)
> "The only way to increase diversity is to practice negative discrimination on dominant groups or positive discrimination on minorities..."

Uh, are you saying that Asian-Americans are a dominant group and not a minority? If so, a lot of us would have something to say about that...

Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by throw_454324 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @12:09AM (#22975485)
Makes you wonder if OP would say the same about the NBA?

Darryl Morey (Houston Rockets) said one of the reasons he didn’t draft Jeremy Lin is because he’s Asian, despite Lin meeting all his criteria.

Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by MiroF on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:30PM (#22975044)
i think by dominant group s/he likely meant over-represented group
Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by ThrowawayR2 on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:40PM (#22975094)
That's just as bad. As the paper notes, these Asian-Americans have justly earned their representation through demonstrated capability and hard work and they are being deprived of it.
Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by therealdrag0 on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:35PM (#22975070)
I think OP means they are dominant in performance, which would lead to "over representation" if that was the only admissions factor.
Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by ThrowawayR2 on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:46PM (#22975127)
> "I think OP means they are dominant in performance, which would lead to "over representation" if that was the only admissions factor."

"Other admissions factors" sounds rather similar to Harvard's tactics used to keep out excessive Jewish applicants in the 1920s (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/harvard-s-jewish-proble...) because they were earning too many seats because of their performance as well, doesn't it?