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As a Jew, would you feel confortable indicating that via a checkbox? Anywhere, for that matter? Let alone having that used against you in college admissions? Of
by sp527 8y ago
As a Jew, would you feel confortable indicating that via a checkbox? Anywhere, for that matter? Let alone having that used against you in college admissions? Of course not.
If this mess with Asians isn’t truly a double standard against non-Whites, then you should be willing to accept the same treatment for the same reasons we supposedly think it’s okay to do it to Asians. If you wouldn’t be comfortable with that, your argument isn’t very useful because you clearly haven’t empathized far enough to understand how we feel.
- betterunix2 8y agoActually, as a Jew, I faced something even more frustrating: "Jewish" is not even a box on the admissions forms. I never had the choice to identify myself as a Jew. For the purposes of affirmative action programs Jews are not a race and we are expected to just indicate "White" on the forms (unless you are talking about African Jews, who are expected to indicate "Black," or Asian Jews who presumably are expected to indicate "Asian"). I understand your complaint, I just think you are focusing on the wrong problem and greatly over-simplifying the situation. Harvard's exclusion of Jews took the form of an explicit quota, and was specifically intended to benefit White Christian students (except for Italian Catholics, but back then Italians were not considered to be "White") and to prevent the student body from becoming too diverse (at the time they would not even consider Black applicants). Your complaint is over subjective admissions criteria that are intended to support a diverse student body. I also think it is a mistake to focus on affirmative action when "legacy" admissions comprise 14 percent of the student body -- surely that is even more unfair to people who worked hard for years.