Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm...
by kn0where on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:17PM
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When being a member or a particular race is highly correlated with being poor and disadvantaged in America, is instituting a policy that admits more of them to Yale an example of B) or, as you say, trying to fight racism with racism?
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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm...
by jjoonathan on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:29PM
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> is instituting a policy that admits more of them to Yale
If the policy is to look at race and give/take points, that's racism in the most literal way possible.
If the policy is to look at SES, it's not racist, even though there's a correlation.
At some point correlations become strong enough that it's difficult to disentangle concepts, but I don't think this is an example of that. In particular: would giving points based on SES have screwed Asians in the way that trying to balance races did? Probably not. It's a better formulation of the problem.