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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by xienze on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:38PM (#36522859)
> Better to just remove race all together, and e.g. require college admissions by law to be judged without knowing the applicants name or ethnicity.

Believe me, this has been considered and tried in various contexts. The problem is that in the end schools and companies find out that they don't achieve the "right" mix of ethnicities and genders and so it's back to square one.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by megaman821 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:37PM (#36527091)
They tried this with orchestra auditions by doing them behind a curtain but they didn't end up with the "right" mix. As of yet they haven't figure out how people's auditory senses are racist.
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