Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
by jjoonathan on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:30PM
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> diversity at universities and other organizations is either good, neutral, or bad
That phrasing suggests there isn't a tradeoff involved. Instead: diversity is either more important than, equally important to, or less important than avoiding discrimination.
> We've (mostly?) collectively agreed
Back when I took Justice (the class at Harvard), one week's homework involved a mandatory online poll and debate about affirmative action. Opinions were split 50/50 for and against. My own strategy was to pick the (slight) underdog and argue for it -- and evidently others were doing the same thing, because the poll kept bouncing between 49/51 and 51/49.
So no, I don't think we have collectively agreed, even though the administration certainly likes to pretend that we have.
That phrasing suggests there isn't a tradeoff involved. Instead: diversity is either more important than, equally important to, or less important than avoiding discrimination.
> We've (mostly?) collectively agreed
Back when I took Justice (the class at Harvard), one week's homework involved a mandatory online poll and debate about affirmative action. Opinions were split 50/50 for and against. My own strategy was to pick the (slight) underdog and argue for it -- and evidently others were doing the same thing, because the poll kept bouncing between 49/51 and 51/49.
So no, I don't think we have collectively agreed, even though the administration certainly likes to pretend that we have.