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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by foogazi on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:29PM (#24151079)
> It's obviously impossible to enact affirmative action without the corresponding penalty on outgroup members.

Can be done with increasing seats, so same count of existing racial profiles + additions for the affirmative actioned populace

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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by lopmotr on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:12PM (#24162693)
The end result would be indistinguishable from excluding those others. They could even just do it with words on paper with a statement like "We're accepting 100 fewer students next year." followed the next day by "We're accepting 100 extra students from our preferred races next year".
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