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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Racial preferences at colleges have nothing to do with slavery.  Nothing.  They are not reparations.

Racial preferences at colleges exist because colleges feel a racial balance that more closely reflects the population better helps them achieve their mission.  You can disagree that it does, but implying that the horror of slavery has anything (directly) to do with the current policy is an uninformed position.

If suddenly one year nearly no Asians applied to Harvard, the ones that did would benefit from the policy, as they do at colleges where they are under-represented.[/quote]

If this is true, then colleges are acknowledging that AA people (for example) are fundamentally different to white people. This really goes against pretty much everything that people say these days about racism and racial struggles. The point is that we're all actually the same, and should be given the same freedoms & opportunities as well as the same responsibilities & behavioral expectations, or we're not. We either think the same way and behave the same way, or we don't.

If we're all the same, I don't see why it's so important to have a representative racial mix in each cohort. If we're different, then yes it might be valuable to have a representative sample but then we'd also do a lot of things differently in the way that we educate the groups in schools, etc.[/quote]

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