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Fascinating.

So, the best way to help Asian Americans who, as you say, have been subject to much injustice in the past...is to discriminate AGAINST them in college admissions?

This is beyond absurd. It's plain obscene.[/quote]

Again, many people are arguing based on an incorrect premise.

Racial balance in college admissions is not designed to hurt of help any one race.

Racial balance in college admissions is designed to help colleges better achieve their mission.

Past injustices, while horrible and possibly worthy of social correction, are completely irrelevant to this topic, and to insist they are indicates you do not understand.[/quote]

Well you can definitely count me in as a person who also finds it fascinating. I haven't heard a single reason - reasonable or otherwise - for such blatant discrimination yet.

What if I went through life, avoiding people of a certain race even when I have a lot of power over them and it really hurts them for me to do so, and then I just claimed, "oh it's not discrimination or illegal in the slightest, I just have a mission to not interact with people from x race, and that's what I'm doing." Would that be okay with you?

Saying that it's a "mission" is the exact same thing as saying "because I want to". It's not a reason. It's not a justification. It's not a defense against racism. Not when the stakes are so high here.[/quote]

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