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That was me.

By "harm," I mean pay a price for affirmative action policies. It's simple math. Let's say a med school, for example, has X number of slots and have determined that they want 15% of the entering class to be black (since 15% of the broader population is black.) In order to accomplish that, they need to drop their GPA cut-off to 3.3. No white male would get in with that stat and instead needs a 3.6.

Unfortunately (for the white guy), he earned a 3.5. He's rejected. If slots didn't need to open up for black kids with 3.3, in order to meet AA goals, the school could drop down to 3.5 for everyone, race not a factor, and the white kid would have passed the cut-off. This can play out at med schools throughout the country, and he has to give up his dream of being a doctor. I've seen this happen in two instances with bright, caring young white men.

Whether this sacrifice is worth it to have a diverse population among doctors is a separate area of discussion. But you can't deny that the white kid paid a price as a result of affirmative action policies.[/quote]
DP here. And your example is illustrative of the fact that only white males seem to believe that the world is/should be objectively fair and would be if the government just left well enough alone. Pretty much everyone else already knows that most systems are inherently unfair, and so Asian-American women like me simply aren't phased by systems that are explicitly unfair to some people if the reasons make sense. I don't think it's possible for a system to actually be fair, so I'd rather people who have been historically disadvantaged get things tilted a bit in their direction.[/quote]

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