Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm...
by threatofrain on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:58PM
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How interesting are Asian American voters to the GOP in national politics? They're a small minority generally concentrated in a few big cities or solidly democratic states. Asian Americans generally value policies that value college, such as loan forgiveness.
There's also the matter of the China virus.
Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm...
by cafard on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:51PM
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Actually, what you quote comprises two sentences. The first might be improved by a comma after "process", the second violates the cranky notion that one should not start a sentence with "And". Both are legitimate sentences, though.
Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm...
by justicezyx on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:42PM
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> Can't help but think in this era of Bill Barr's politicization of DoJ investigations that this is an attempt to directly appease Asian American voters going into Nov.3.
As a Chinese american, AFAIK, this has been a crucial issue for majority of the community. Could you stop labeling a core issue for a group of people "pliticization"?
Show some respect to a group of people that have been systematically discriminated through well-known laws. Even black people are not treated in that fashion nowadays.
Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm...
by wyxuan on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:47PM
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I'm a chinese american as well, and I also think its an important issue, but I don't think theres any need to bring identity into this discussion.
You can't deny that the timing of this decision is suspect.
Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm...
by rectang on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:50PM
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> Even black people are not treated in that fashion nowadays.
If Black Americans were not subject to high levels of structural discrimination, maybe this issue would be less fraught.
I wish I could be less of a cynic, but unfortunately not under this admin.
Some interesting notes:
> Yale uses race at multiple steps of its admissions process resulting in a multiplied effect of race on an applicant’s likelihood of admission. And Yale racially balances its classes.
That is a sentence fragment, not sure why they included it in the press release like that. It seems 'tacked on' and rushed.
Also, I've heard a lot about Yale's affirmative action policies, but I haven't heard much about the nationality based admissions policy. I'm interested in knowing how that works.