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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the data:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/577722-more-than-a-third-of-white-students-lie-about-their/
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My guess is that they mostly put Hispanic.

I thought Hispanic % was said to be pretty high at some of the colleges.

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Yeah, a friend of my son has an Hispanic mother ... whose family has been in the United States since the late 1800s. The father is a WASP who attended Columbia and HBS. Meanwhile the boy is checking the Hispanic box and applying to Harvard and Yale while my slightly-better-stats kid is focused on, like, Villanova.

It's so frustrating to see people abuse the system. I wish there was a way for colleges to distinguish (and who knows; maybe they do.)[/quote]

Simple

Latinos should not get any affirmative action

It should be for ados blacks only.

Latinos scam this so hard.

I ask for test scores and transcripts when I hire and I definitely am more willing to bend for black kids (it’s pretty easy also to tell ados from 1st and 2nd gen African/Dominicans when you see their names, ask where they went to high school, make small talk about hobbies, music, sports during the interview process etc) 
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You sound like a nativist bigot.

Latinos have actually struggled for centuries here, you know the US stole their lands in many states? And their language has been forbidden for decades in states like CA?

If blacks and Native Americans get AA, Latinos deserve it too.[/quote]

All of the stolen land was technically Native American lands.  If Latinos were occupying those lands it's because they stole it from the Natives.

Assuming we choose to humor you.. what about the Chinese who were indentured to work the railroads and suffered periodic pogroms when the Whites got jealous of their success?  What about the Japanese whose homes and assets were stolen from them and made to live in internment camps?  What about their descendants?   What about Indians who were not allowed to become citizens nor own land in the US in the early part of the last century?  See how the slop gets slippery?  Where does this stop?

BTW, none of the Asians are asking for any sh*t like this because they are successful despite these hurdles thanks to their mindset.  Something sorely lacking with people asking for handouts.[/quote]

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