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Can't help but think in this era of Bill Barr's politicization of DoJ investigations that this is an attempt to directly appease Asian American voters going int
by wyxuan 6y ago
Can't help but think in this era of Bill Barr's politicization of DoJ investigations that this is an attempt to directly appease Asian American voters going into Nov.3.
I wish I could be less of a cynic, but unfortunately not under this admin.
Some interesting notes:
> Yale uses race at multiple steps of its admissions process resulting in a multiplied effect of race on an applicant’s likelihood of admission. And Yale racially balances its classes.
That is a sentence fragment, not sure why they included it in the press release like that. It seems 'tacked on' and rushed.
Also, I've heard a lot about Yale's affirmative action policies, but I haven't heard much about the nationality based admissions policy. I'm interested in knowing how that works.
- justicezyx 6y ago> Can't help but think in this era of Bill Barr's politicization of DoJ investigations that this is an attempt to directly appease Asian American voters going into Nov.3. As a Chinese american, AFAIK, this has been a crucial issue for majority of the community. Could you stop labeling a core issue for a group of people "pliticization"? Show some respect to a group of people that have been systematically discriminated through well-known laws. Even black people are not treated in that fashion nowadays.
- wyxuan 6y agoI'm a chinese american as well, and I also think its an important issue, but I don't think theres any need to bring identity into this discussion. You can't deny that the timing of this decision is suspect.
- rectang 6y ago> Even black people are not treated in that fashion nowadays. If Black Americans were not subject to high levels of structural discrimination, maybe this issue would be less fraught.
- cafard 6y agoActually, what you quote comprises two sentences. The first might be improved by a comma after "process", the second violates the cranky notion that one should not start a sentence with "And". Both are legitimate sentences, though.
- threatofrain 6y agoHow interesting are Asian American voters to the GOP in national politics? They're a small minority generally concentrated in a few big cities or solidly democratic states. Asian Americans generally value policies that value college, such as loan forgiveness. There's also the matter of the China virus.