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Re:Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans by StavrosK on Saturday May 16, 2015 @08:46AM (#9555888)
Well, the general idea is "there are groups of people who are being discriminated against at some level, so we'll discriminate for them at this level, to even the scales out."

A better solution would be to stop negative discrimination in the first place, but sometimes that's too hard. When you pile hacks on hacks, you end up with crazy edge cases.

Re:Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans by _xander on Saturday May 16, 2015 @09:10AM (#9555960)
Yeah, I think achieving this - or even coming sufficiently close to achieving this - is impossible. Tracking discrimination is very difficult.

A person is an incredibly complex array of both discriminatory and nondiscriminatory features. A tall, poor African American with a really great support network might actually face less discrimination than a fat, middle-class European American who has that one goofy ear. It's just impossible try and rectify this after the fact. Stopping negative discrimination in the first place is not just a better solution, it's the only solution.

Re:Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans by StavrosK on Saturday May 16, 2015 @09:23AM (#9556000)
I think I'm inclined to agree.