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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by wsc981 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:28AM (#22977334)
I hope your son doesn't live in The Netherlands then either, because it's going the same way there. And I'm sure in many Western-European countries it's the same. Where people get selected for top positions to fill some quota instead of being selecting on qualities.

These quotas are discrimination in itself. And it becomes more complicated with mixed-race people. At one point one becomes "too white" or "too black" or "too asian"? In Brazil it's become way too complicated and ridiculous [0], for example.

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[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/05/brazils-new-problem-wit...

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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by DeathArrow on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:48AM (#22977401)
People should be judged by their capabilities, skills, personal situation, not by race, gender or other group belonging.

We live in Eastern Europe, where even if this things are pushed by some politicians and some media, they still aren't a policy. Anyway, I feel that in most of the Europe there is a backlash against "identity politics", people got enough of it.

Discrimination is bad, no matter how is done.

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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by edmundsauto on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:44PM (#22982686)
Discrimination is also inevitable, because we are human, and we are biased. Affirmative action is attempting to resolve the perception that some groups have more bias against them, consistently, due to historical impact.

Also more complex: ignoring discrimination, even if implicit, creates an environment where our natural human impulses (tribalism/bias) flourish.

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