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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tax exempt status next.

It's absurd the Harvard pays no taxes and gets $9B of federal money.  Meanwhile their class sizes remain tiny, while they talk about equity and privilege, and play racial discrimination games where a black student has 10x the odds of getting in than an Asian American student with similar stats across all achievement deciles. [/quote]

Please share a post SCOTUS ruling source for that statistic.

I happen to disfavor affirmative action too, but am often surprised how many rail against that while fine with athletic recruiting. They have the highest admit rates of all, and these are supposed to be [i]academic[/i] institutions. Some people are just born more athletic; an average person  can’t get recruited with just hard work the way they can get good grades or test scores with just hard work. [/quote]

They haven't released all their admissions data to the general public.  But what days we have shows pretty dramatic racial discrimination.  [b]Why are you giving them a pass from stuff they were doing just a few years ago?[/b][/quote]

Because it wasn't illegal then. 37% Asian for the class of '28 and you're still claiming they are racist against Asians? By the way, most of the Asians who work and study at top institutions, and there are a lot of us, are firmly anti-Trump, because we know better than to think he is on our side. 
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It was always illegal.  The opinion says explicitly:

"For the reasons provided above, the Harvard and UNC admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause. Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints. [B]We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today. [/B]"

It was never legal to discriminate like that.

I don't like trump and I didn't think he is on our side.  But I think Harvard was discriminating against Asians and it's weird that you have so much trouble admitting this very obvious fact.

Also, you are either lying or stupid if you are arguing that being overrepresented means you aren't being discriminated against.  [/quote]

So, every Asian applicant should be admitted? And that won't discriminate against some other race?[/quote]

Every candidate should be judged on merit and not race. I also am stunned that Harvard students any Harvard students are taking remedial math. I don’t care if you are an English major you should be able to take college math with remedial math.[/quote]
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How about gender? 
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Even gender.  But the achievement gap on gender is nearly perceptible compared to the achievement gap in race.  [/quote]

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