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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by Teever on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:48PM (#24725219)
The question isn't whether this is an example of positive discrimination or negative discrimination because the implication of either is that it that the result is either positive/negative for another party.

The question is whether or not this is justifiable discrimination.

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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by aeternum on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:18PM (#24725426)
Discrimination based on socio-economic background, the highschool attended, income level is all already legal.

Those are much more difficult to game. Why not use those things instead of something like race?

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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by antepodius on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:08AM (#24727576)
Because then you might have poor people at Yale. Worse, poor whites. The people at Yale would never stand for it.
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