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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are just too many applying for a limited number of spots within engineering and CS. MIT and CMU are over 40% Asian, as are the engineering and CS departments at many schools. How is that being racist?  Do you think they should be 100%?[/quote]

When people ask questions like this, I always think of RBG being asked how many women would be "enough" on the Supreme Court, and responding "when there are nine." You know, since there were nine *men* forever, and that wasn't seen as a problem.

So, when MIT and CMU were 100% white, was that a problem? Was it racist? Why would 100% Asian be any different?[/quote]

:thumbup:  :thumbup:  :thumbup:   That's what a virtual bit*hslap looks like![/quote]

+1000. Amen.[/quote]

[b]i don't get it. aren't the answers to those questions:  "yes" "yes" and "it wouldn't be?"[/b][/quote]

Your answers only make sense if you think that Pakistani and Hmong and Korean backgrounds are all the same because "Asian", so it would be racist to have a diverse student body from these backgrounds among many others. The point, which seems to have flown over your head, is that when these institutions were overwhelmingly white, the people running them did not see them as lacking diversity, because the students were different religions, immigrants from different countries, etc. In fact, the crazy "holistic" admissions system exists because there was "too much" diversity in an entirely white student body, meaning "too many" Jews were admitted, in the eyes of university administration.

And to the people who keep bringing up the percentage of Asians in the general population of the United States: that is not even slightly relevant. What IS relevant is the percentage of Asian *applicants* in a particular school's applicant pool. If 40% of admitted students are Asian, but 70% of the applicant pool is Asian, yes, there IS a problem with discrimination. Plenty of schools are 70% white, so what's wrong with 70% Asian (other than "white people feel threatened by it")?[/quote]

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