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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by ZeroGravitas on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:40AM (#22976924)
Aren't you asking for "affirmative action", just for yourself and not others?

You'll probably say, no I just want equality and at the moment I'm discriminated against, so if we intentionally tilt things towards my group then things will be fair again but that's what they'd say too.

How can you be sure that whatever social movement and/or beaurocracy that gets invented to fix your problem doesn't then cause someone else (women, Russians, "white" people, older people maybe) to be unfairly overlooked (or even just perceive themselves to be overlooked) and complain that actively helping you must surely be at the expense of some poor deserving person they know?

Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by _wt8k on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:25AM (#22977117)
Never in my comment did I advocate for policies that give Asians a leg up, and I'm curious to know which part of my comment you interpreted that way. I just want to be judged for my merits and passions without regard to any assumptions that come with my race.
Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by legolas2412 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:53AM (#22978997)
Wow. So, you think equality is subjective?

Like when slavery was banned, was it "intentionally tilt things towards African americans then things will be fair again but that's what they'd say too"?