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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by nicoburns on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:13AM (#24156852)
Socioeconommic conditions are themselves not independent of race though. It's not so long ago that it was perfectly legal to discriminate who got a job on the basis of Race, and it was commonplace for people to do so.
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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by throwaway0a5e on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:11AM (#24157421)
I intentionally used the phrase "happens to correlate with race for historical reasons" to cover this.
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