Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe

Re:Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe by reader5000 on Thursday February 02, 2012 @05:31PM (#3544805)

This is really the gist of these suits. If it were the case that by law colleges could only consider SAT score, then there is strong evidence for anti-Asian and anti-white discrimination. But since not all schools are Caltech, nor want to be, these suits are without merit. It is entirely possible that a legitimately race-blind admissions process would produce lots of 2600SAT asian kids not getting into the elite unis.

That said, race-blind admissions policies are not current law nor necessarily even the optimal policy. For example, we can't have a nation with a persistent racial underclass. In as much as college effects class mobility (which is probably small), race-aware policies allow for this.

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Re:Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe by yummyfajitas on Thursday February 02, 2012 @09:00PM (#3545389)

For example, we can't have a nation with a persistent racial underclass.

Why not? As long as the racial underclass remains an underclass due solely to non-discriminatory processes, what's the problem?

A related question: suppose we don't divide humans into subgroups by race, but instead divide them by some other factor. (E.g., height, good looks, intellect, whatever.) Would it be wrong if one of those subdivisions were a "persistent underclass" due solely to a meritocratic process?

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Re:Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe by krakensden on Friday February 03, 2012 @03:30AM (#3546344)

> For example, we can't have a nation with a persistent racial underclass

Are you asserting that we don't?

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