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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by JamesBarney on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:43PM (#36522962)
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by chimeracoder on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:51PM (#36523119)
> The Harvard Crimson disagrees with you.

You are linking to a student-run paper written and staffed by undergraduates, in which they report that "Asian-American matriculates had the highest average SAT score", which is not particularly meaningful because nobody (not even the plaintiffs in the lawsuit) claim that race and SAT scores are the only two factors that determine admissions.

This is exactly what I mean by facile readings of the data.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by prepend on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:30PM (#36524699)
The Supreme Court disagrees with you.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by mrguyorama on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:37PM (#36524800)
The self same court that once argued that slaves had no rights, and just recently said that it's okay to overturn an abortion protection because safe haven laws mean a mom should just go through labor (a not safe process in the US specifically) and drop the kid off later?
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by prepend on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:11PM (#36526037)
Yes, the self same court. Not that they are perfect, but they are the legal structure that we have in our country. And I’d say more likely to be correct than you or various organizations that disagree.

This is the best way we have to resolve disagreements and they ruled. Saying they are wrong is not terribly useful.

I don’t agree with all their rulings, but not sure how we set up a better system for resolving serious disagreements.