Re:Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe
by aeeeee on Thursday February 02, 2012 @03:59PM
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I would say just because one culture is more inclined to sports and social activities doesn't mean it is racist to use these things as a discriminating factors. I don't think it's possible to argue that a selection criteria is racist unless the color of your skin is the sole discriminator.
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Re:Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe
by tesseractive on Thursday February 02, 2012 @05:03PM
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On the other hand, it bears mentioning that you can be racist in your choice of selection criteria, if you choose criteria based on their ability to produce a certain racial outcome.
The use of a poll tax people have to pay in order to vote isn't racist per se, but in the segregationist south, poll taxes were used as a mechanism to suppress black votes because they knew (disproportionately poor) black people would have a harder time paying it, and this use was racist.