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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So shocking how many support anti-asian hate.

They used to discriminate against Jews in exactly same way Harvard now does against Asians.

Can't knock em down based on merits, so you gotta attack their character and figure out ways less accomplished people get in (ahem race). [/quote]

So, regardless of how you feel about the various posts, it seems silly to say that they used to discriminate against jews the same way Harvard does against Asians.

[b]You do realize that when they discriminated against Jews that meant there were basically 0 zero Jews admitted to Harvard.  [/b]If 20% - 30% of Harvard is Asian...how is that even remotely the same?

Let's make sure we get our outrage comparisons correct.[/quote]

+1000

It's apples to oranges
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? no, you guys clearly haven't read up on exactly why Harvard started using holistic admissions. They did have Jews in Harvard, but the numbers started increasing, and Harvard decided that there were too many Jews, and that's when they started implementing "holistic" admissions.

Please get educated on this topic before you post your ignorance.

https://www.jta.org/2018/10/17/united-states/harvard-once-capped-the-number-of-jews-is-it-doing-the-same-thing-to-asians-now

[quote]As the country’s Jewish population ballooned in the early 20th century, the Jewish proportion of Harvard students increased exponentially, too. In 1900, just 7 percent of the Ivy League school’s students were Jewish. By 1922, the figure was 21.5 percent.

In response to a letter from an alumnus bemoaning that Harvard was no longer a “white man’s” college, Lowell wrote that he “had foreseen the peril of having too large a number of an alien race, and had tried to prevent it.”

Lowell eventually succeeded in changing the admissions standards at his Boston-area university to limit the number of Jews.
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https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/expose/book/cloak-meritocracy-harvard%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cnew-plan%E2%80%9D-admissions-and-%E2%80%9Cjewish-problem[/quote]

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