American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by okay_dude_321 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:17PM (#33445414)

> Once AA is overturned, that's it—hands off the scale.

Harvard has a really straightforward contingency plan if it loses this case. SEAS will have undergraduates, it will have one kind of admissions, and FAS will have another. Students in both colleges will have some kind of pro-forma differences. The total size of FAS and SEAS-as-undergraduate will be about 50 more students than the current Harvard College alone.

That's it, now you can admit into SEAS all the students who felt they were wronged by the current criteria. The racial composition of the admits across both colleges will be very similar.

I don't know, it's definitely some fairy thinking on behalf of the plaintiffs. Nothing will change. You'd have to be colossally fucking stupid, as an Asian kid, to think that these Republican motherfuckers are doing this for the benefit of Asians.

I cannot really blame an angry 18 year old for being so easily co-opted by such a stupid and nakedly obvious anti-Black agenda.

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Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by onos on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:31PM (#33445568)

All you need to do is look at UC system to see that there may indeed be an impact.

https://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data-ne...

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Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by nonethewiser on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:59PM (#33446811)

> I don't know, it's definitely some fairy thinking on behalf of the plaintiffs. Nothing will change. You'd have to be colossally fucking stupid, as an Asian kid, to think that these Republican motherfuckers are doing this for the benefit of Asians.

They aren't doing it for the benefit of Asians. They aren;t doing it at all. The Supreme Court would be doing it to enforce laws against racism.

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Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by nobody9999 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @02:03AM (#33447589)

>The Supreme Court would be doing it to enforce laws against racism.

You missed GP's point

The Supreme court decides which cases it will hear.

It does not decide what cases should be filed in Federal courts that may or may not end up on their docket.

Whether or not GPs assertion is true (I don't know the facts of the case or the hearts/minds of those who brought it, so I make no judgement there) doesn't make their point moot, or your ignoring of their point less relevant.

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