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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by tomp on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:41PM (#36522930)
> Harvard, and many other colleges, has a big base of "legacy" admissions, […] Since black people were under-represented in this category, people came up with the idea of putting a thumb on the other side of the scale and artificially increasing their rate of admission.

This is a nice story, but actually not true.

If it were true, Harvard etc wouldn’t also discriminate against Asians. Maybe they weren’t as oppressed as blacks in the US, but they should thus get at least equivalent treatment as whites and hispanics, not worse.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by jensensbutton on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:00PM (#36524227)
> If it were true, Harvard etc wouldn’t also discriminate against Asians.

This logic makes absolutely no sense. Why can't they have a legacy admits AND discriminate against Asians? Are you seriously trying to claim Ivy League schools don't have legacy admits?

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by LudwigNagasena on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:02PM (#36529168)
You missed this part:

> putting a thumb on the other side of the scale and artificially increasing their rate of admission

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