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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Racial criteria in college admission is not affirmative action.[/quote]

[b]Racial criteria would be illegal without affirmative action.[/b] It rests on the foundation of affirmative action, remove that foundation and deciding anything based on race would be illegal. Get it? And affirmative action is for redressing past discrimination. So if the court ever rules that affirmative action is illegal or unconstitutional, racial criteria would disappear. DISAPPEAR. GET IT?

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Don't know where you come up with this, but it's wrong. Racial criteria is essential for diversity which is lawful: [u]see [/u]Fisher v. Univ. of Texas and Grutter v. Bolinger.[/quote]

Have you read Fisher?

Fisher was decided on three criteria, one of which was [b]strict scrutiny of affirmative action admissions processes[/b] (so without AA, racial criteria would be moot and illegal as it depends on it for survival),

Diversity alone cannot be a reason for racial balancing. If that were the case, we could argue that White protestants, LGBTQ, conservative students, etc etc would need proportional representation.

The court also said that there would be no judicial deference when determining whether the use of race in admissions processes [b]is narrowly tailored[/b]. And Narrowly tailored means you don't give any Black or Hispanic the advantage of racial balancing or diversity. You have to tailor it very narrowly.

I hope Harvard loses big, but I am not holding out hope[/quote]

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