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Harvard: Race can only help, never harm, applicants’ chances
Associated Press ^ | October 15, 2018 | COLLIN BINKLEY

Posted on 10/17/2018 10:25:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To state the truly obvious, if being of a certain race helps some applicants' chances, it hurts applicants who are not of the favored races. Do they think we are idiots?
1 posted on 10/17/2018 10:25:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

This actually is a zero sum game. If they gain, I have to lose.


2 posted on 10/17/2018 10:26:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: reaganaut1

Apparently white people got no game or race.


3 posted on 10/17/2018 10:26:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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The universities insist it is better for them and for the nation if they discriminate to foster greater racial ans sexual diversity.

I believe they and the nation are better off if the spaces available are filled based upon actual merit.


4 posted on 10/17/2018 10:27:59 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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Harvard is not discriminating because of race. It discriminates against people with certain names.


5 posted on 10/17/2018 10:28:15 AM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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Harvard is not discriminating because of race. It discriminates against people with certain names.


6 posted on 10/17/2018 10:28:15 AM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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Do they think we are idiots?

Yes, of course they do.

7 posted on 10/17/2018 10:28:25 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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Do they think we are idiots?

Yes. Yes they do.

8 posted on 10/17/2018 10:28:31 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: reaganaut1

Helping my competitor, hurts me.


9 posted on 10/17/2018 10:28:38 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: ClearCase_guy

Seems like everyone can win. Race only helps. No losers at Harvard...


10 posted on 10/17/2018 10:29:04 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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I guess logic isn’t a strong point of academicians these days.


11 posted on 10/17/2018 10:29:20 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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Trump needs to examine this.

<><> a 1996 piece in Fordham Law Review celebrated Pocahantas Warren as Harvard Law School’s “first woman of color.”

<><> Harvard’s 1999 Affirmative Action Plan Book appears to identify Sen Warren as N/A, not by name, but it could not possibly be anyone else.

The latter document is important b/c:
(A) Harvard is considered a federal contractor,
(B) its employment practices fall under the Dept of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).
(C) the compliance program “requires “ a contractor, to discover barriers to equal employment opportunity.

WIKI-—OFCCP administers and enforces three legal authorities that require equal employment opportunity:
<><> Executive Order 11246, as amended;
<><> Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; and.
<><> the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended, 38 U.S.C. 4212.

These authorities prohibit Federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and protected veteran status. They also require Federal contractors and subcontractors to take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity in their employment processes. Its regulations can be found at CFR Title 41 Chapter 60: Public Contracts and Property Management.


12 posted on 10/17/2018 10:29:26 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Race can’t hurt, unless you are white or Asian American.


13 posted on 10/17/2018 10:30:16 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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To state the truly obvious, if being of a certain race helps some applicants’ chances, it hurts applicants who are not of the favored races. Do they think we are idiots?

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Oh they most certainly do. The only other option is that they actually believe what they are saying. That’s an even more frightening thought.


14 posted on 10/17/2018 10:31:15 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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The judge will decide the case. No jury. Judge is Obama appointee. Harvard will win this round.

Only hope is this goes to SCOTUS and Harvard loses there. Kavanaugh can make a difference.


15 posted on 10/17/2018 10:31:27 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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College bound Asians have been discriminated against by California Universities and Cal State Universities for decades going back to the 1960’s.


16 posted on 10/17/2018 10:32:25 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems @ the Kavanaugh lynching, told Americans that non gay men of any color have Zero future w/them!)
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To: reaganaut1
Unless you're white.

If there are X number of seats and Y applicants and X=Y-Z(who dont make the cut), then race WILL harm someone's chances all other things being equal.

Why is logic so hard for these idiotic college writers??

17 posted on 10/17/2018 10:33:02 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Coming in from the cold .... been a LONG while.)
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That’s like saying when trading stock, with a buyer and a seller, nobody loses, both win.


18 posted on 10/17/2018 10:33:36 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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No losers at Harvard.

But there are losers at Harvard. The blacks and hispanics who are not well prepared would do better at a less competitive school. At Harvard they struggle and even though the professors grade them 'gently' many of them still flunk. Had they gone to a more appropriate school they might have excelled.

19 posted on 10/17/2018 10:36:08 AM PDT by ladyjane
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unless you’re Caucasian of course.


20 posted on 10/17/2018 10:37:15 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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