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Re:Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to qui... by EdwardDiego on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:20AM (#33053728)
Huh, okay, so, to clarify my understanding, because of the quotas, assuming a fixed amount of available spots, less Asians get in than they would without the quotas.

But a) wouldn't that apply to other demographics too? and b) All Asians? Are Hmong, for example, over-represented in college enrollments?

I'm just trying to understand why it's specifically anti-Asian.

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Re:Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to qui... by BlargMcLarg on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:31AM (#33053777)
It isn't specifically "anti-Asian".

A bunch of pro-diversity people see white people do well and get successful. They see the same in Asians. They see the opposite for black and latino. They conclude "we must give black and latino preferential treatment to catch up". It is a bit more elaborate, but not much more than that.

>All Asians?

Yes. Despite their fronts, diversity initiatives don't look much further beyond sex, gender and skin color. You're already one level deeper than most of these politics go.

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Re:Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to qui... by EdwardDiego on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:44AM (#33053835)
Yeah, that's always the problem with race-based initiatives, there's always edge cases, like any policy.
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