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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by tchaffee on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:17PM (#24725416)
Asian Americans make up 5.6% percent of the total American population and Yale has ~19% Asian students. How can you claim Yale is being racist? Should the number of Asian students at Yale be higher? And why should it be higher? Which numbers should be lower at Yale so there should be more Asians, and why?

White 43% Asian 19% Hispanic/Latino 13% Black or African American 8%

If your claim is that Yale should be accepting students blindly on merit only, and that as a result the number of Asian students would go up, then it would be hard not to conclude that you think one race is superior to the others and should therefor be accepted at a higher rate than their representation in the general population. Or is there some other conclusion you could come to?

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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by ballenf on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:15PM (#24726062)
Yale may choose whatever admission criteria it wants except for a handful of prohibited criteria. Race is one of them, according to the DOJ.

Yale could presumably choose to admit only students scoring high but not too high if they wanted to. Or only take soccer players. Or only admit tuba players.

But they are being challenged for including race as one of those criteria.

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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by tchaffee on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:14AM (#24728772)
You repeated what I already read in the article and didn't answer any of my questions. Harvard won a similar lawsuit and the government has ruled before that race can be considered to eliminate discrimination. So both the issue and the law are more nuanced than you are making them out to be. How about answering my questions or getting into enough detail and nuance that it would move the conversation forward?
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