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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it is OK to limit the number of qualified Asian Americans into elite universities using holistic admissions, then why wasn't it ok years ago when Harvard went this route to limit the number of Jews?  Why do we look back on that time and shake our heads, and we all agree it was terrible for Harvard to do this, but then think it's fine today to do this very same thing to a different group of people?[/quote]

Sorry.  The situation faced by Jews was not the same thing as what Asians face today.  So tired of this lazy analogy.  [/quote]

Provide arguments supporting your claim, lazy PP.

I am neither Jewish nor Asian, but I work in higher ed and this analogy makes A LOT of sense, for the reasons previous PP shared.[/quote]

NP.  I'll speak for myself.  Because, in the old days, the antisemitism was explicit and a lot harsher than anything Asians face on campus today.  No doubt that Asians had a tough road at colleges back in the day, though, [b]what with internment camps and all.[/b][/quote]

Not sure what that has to do with the discussion at hand, but perhaps you need to learn a bit of history anyway. In the US, Jewish people have never been interned into camps. Japanese Americans have.

And the Vietnamese were napalmed by us.

Anyway, let's talk college, shall we.[/quote]

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