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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the motives of people who advocated for these changes?[/quote]

Here's my cynical take.  I'm also white, FWTW.

White, affluent people in their 40s and 50s remember the days when they could get into great colleges, get into the magnet schools, and receive lots of accolades without putting in that much effort.  Asians show up and start dominating everything because they're doing weekend schooling and generally working harder.  White people feel like their kids deserve to get into schools like TJ and win academic awards based on their kids' raw aptitude, even if there are a lot of Asian kids who are technically at a higher achievement level.  They don't want their kids to do extra schooling or need to work harder, but they know they can't otherwise keep up with the Asian kids.  So, the solution is to eliminate any advantages that would be gained from working harder.

The goal is not and never has been to increase URM participation.  It's to increase the number of white kids at TJ.  It's also to make bright, white kids who do minimal supplementation look every bit as competitive as the Asian kids who are doing a lot of academic enrichment.  URMs are just being used as a tool.  
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