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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Can you explain how Asian Americans can claim discrimination in college admissions but are overrepresented on most college campuses relative to their U.S. population? [/quote]

Easy. If they are 30% of the elite college population but would be 60% on the basis of merit, then they have been discriminated against.[/quote]

Merit as defined by you, you mean.

What Harvard is way more interested in than GPA and test scores is who's going to be a future leader in a realm that will be sure to garner Harvard lots of attention and potentially money. Some of that comes from being smart and hard-working, but there's much more to it than that.

Asians are not being discriminated against.[/quote]

Merit as defined by Harvard itself, actually.

So you think Asians, who excel in extracurriculars as well as grades, lack "future leadership potential"? They just don't have that extra je ne sais quoi on top of their intelligence and grades? The only reason to think this is... racism.

Asians are being discriminated against by racists just like you.[/quote]

You should really be more judicious in your use of the term 'racist'. I was dating women of Asian descent and studying Asian languages because I love the culture before you were born probably. [b][Sure thing, weeb][/b]

Nothing in my statement said that I don't believe those with Asian ancestry can be leaders--you just inferred it incorrectly. [/quote]

Nope. You were saying that Asians who got rejected lacked leadership qualities and are just boring grade-grubbing drones. Standard racist excuse for racism.

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How can you say he's a racist - he's a guy with an Asian woman fetish. [/quote]

FYI, I'm the one who posted the original statement, which I believe is being deliberately misinterpreted in order to have some fun at my expense because I worded my comment very awkwardly. That's fine, I probably deserve it. But I do not and have never had an Asian woman fetish. All I was trying to say was that race has never entered into my consideration of whom I should be interested in, which I thought might lead one to believe I'm not a racist. And my point in doing that was to hopefully (but apparently not) get the poster who called me a racist to think about their overuse of the term, which is thrown around very loosely these days.

Taking race (and most other traits) into consideration when interacting with others is a stupid way to go through life. Even if there are things that are true about one race more than another, there's nothing that can be said to be absolutely true about every member of any given race. Which means that we should be approaching each person as an individual and asking ourselves who that one person is. Any other approach views others through a veil that never allows an accurate understanding of the world.[/quote]

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