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It doesn't inherently help a basketball team to win games to have players from diverse perspectives. But it demonstrably and undeniably helps students to prepare to change the world to have students around them from diverse perspectives.[/quote]

Kind of.  I doubt Harvard looks for diversity when admitting kids to its math program.  Diverse perspectives are highly important for humanities and social studies, but kind of irrelevant in STEM fields.  If the main point of TJ is to be an elite STEM school, then I'm not sure that the diverse perspectives help much.  [/quote]

I would agree with you if the point of studying math were just to do math. But given that the point of it, and other STEM fields and of course in theory TJ, is to serve the best interests of humanity, diverse perspectives are a non-negotiable.[/quote]

Yes but the perspective of the Asian Americans is not taken into account so there is no diverse perspective and there is only the perspectives of the preferred minority groups or the perspectives of the groups with adequate political clout. It is not in the interest of humanity to have Asian Americans be subjected to blatant racial discrimination.  [/quote]

No one is suggesting eliminating Asian Americans from the pool of candidates for these programs - indeed, they will almost certainly always be remarkably over-represented in them. What is being suggested is that the programs would be significantly more robust if they were somewhat less over-represented than they currently are.[/quote]

How about we eliminate testing, and just admit randomly selected students in a ratio equal to the population race ratio.  Would that satisfy you?  Because if you do take test scores into account, Asian Americans are not over-represented.[/quote]

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