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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check table 11, buried on page 49. I guess they didn't want to talk about that.[/quote]

What’s your point?[/quote]

NP here so I'm not sure what PP meant but it's "Table 11: Total Admits by Race under Different Admissions Policies, Expanded Sample" that jumped out at me.  If you remove all preferences, about the same number of white students are admitted, but way more asians are admitted, at the expense of african americans and hispanics.  [b]Politics of the moment aside, this is really a story about asians versus those other two minority groups.[/b][/quote]

Please stop trying to pit Asians against other minority groups. I am black and SO sick of this trope. [/quote]

Asians are taking the seats of White students. There are very little Blacks and Hispanics in higher education to make any difference to Asians or Whites, and no one in power would care if Asians took the place of Blacks and Hispanics and vice versa.

[b]The whole discrimination effort is due to Asians taking seats from so-called "bright" snowflake White students, who were actually quite inferior.  Blacks and Hispanics are just the excuse the Whites give to deflect anger from themselves. Its the tried and tested divide and conquer of the White people.[/b]

- Asian-American [/quote]

+1000.  Although when pressed, whites will show their prejudice against Asians.  Funny how some white people deemphasize standardized test scores when their kids are pitted against Asian American students (at least, the Asian subgroups who traditionally perform well), yet play up the importance of test scores when discussing black or Latino kids.  Just check out this thread on Asian-bashing by white families who want to deemphasize a focus on academics—some would say it’s because whites are no longer on top more than concern about pressure/stress.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/822890.page

-a black and Asian parent [/quote]

White people will say and do anything to maintain their privileged position.  Logic, consistency and honesty are worthless concepts when arguing with them on this point. All that matters is what helps them.  [/quote]

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