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by MiroF 7y ago
Not always... I think you underestimate the extent to which this sort of approach underlies most federal government rule making. Consider the drinking age of 21 - that is a state-by-state law and yet somehow universal in the United States.
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by MiroF 7y ago
And further, this is how the federal government governs in the vast majority of cases. Sure, it doesn't have the ability to directly mandate what states do, but it does have the carrot-and-stick.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> precedent and just because precedent is overturned doesn't mean it is wrong. I don't like Citizens United as much as the next person, but I think this requires a constitution change.
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by MiroF 7y ago
I would say less impressive? Many great things can be produced by teams of what are essentially grad students. A single person churning out brilliant opinions over decades would be more impressive to me.
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by MiroF 7y ago
I agree - but I imagine even personally it might be a hard thing to hear that something you created is being used to kill people, even with the knowledge that it is doing a lot of good. I'm curious if this is something that some sort o
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by MiroF 7y ago
I find it particularly odd given that the reason Cuomo is in the spotlight is because his state has done so so poorly, even compared to areas with similar density.
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by MiroF 7y ago
This kills considerably more people than the flu, please stop making the comparison.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Thomas Sowell is far from an objective observer here. If this is a true claim, then I'd like to see a stat thrown out. If we're just comparing anecdotes, as someone who attended one of these "elite" universities, this di
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by MiroF 7y ago
Elaborate on that?
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by MiroF 7y ago
> I'm a high school senior of punjabi/white descent, and I fully intend to mark my race as Hispanic. Go ahead - it will definitely backfire. I actually could mark that when I applied (I consider myself white, they would conside
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by MiroF 7y ago
> So make it wealth based? Affirmative action via wealth is already in place at Harvard. Shockingly, not all adversity faced by black Americans comes simply from wealth disparities, although that is a large part of it. I'm white and
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by MiroF 7y ago
Said someone who clearly knows very little about academia payscales.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> * Want to dehumanise people by seeing them only as a member of their respective groups This seems like such a facile argument. It seems very difficult to combat racism (ie. the common strand of thought in society that sees people only
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by MiroF 7y ago
I think this is entirely dependent on the scale at which it is implemented. Certainly, you're right if we're only talking about for admission at elite colleges/universities.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Cheers for this. So many people talking out of their asses here.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> not what it actually means to have been discriminated against by American history and policy. There is a massive historical element to the position that most black americans find themselves in now. But there is also ongoing racism, whi
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by MiroF 7y ago
> invalidating the rather unkind suggestion that it's only one side that's all about the money. I certainly didn't mean to suggest that, so I'm sorry if my comment was unclear to you. Indeed, I was actually replying t
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by MiroF 7y ago
Seemed clear enough the first time, just say it out loud so you can get banned.
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by MiroF 7y ago
You don't get a 17,000% return even with the best insider trading in the world. You get it with luck.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> Next have students stipulate that all materials they receive will be published -- effectively making the school sending it an act of publication. Your genius strategy fails at this point - sending records in response to a FERPA reques
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by MiroF 7y ago
e: removed because I'm not sure if what I stated was factually accurate
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by MiroF 7y ago
Sure, but the (mostly) white and Asian commentators here agitating for an end to affirmative action for under-represented minorities are similarly not doing it just due to their severe opposition to racial discrimination in all forms. This
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by MiroF 7y ago
What was the point of this comment? I want you to state it explicitly.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> You judge someone based on skincolor, you can back it up with numbers sure, but you didn't judge based on who he is. The problem is that other people, way way way earlier in the educational pipeline, are already making these judge
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by MiroF 7y ago
> I wonder how much of this is rooted in the desire to protect their own kid's chances of admission vs loyalty Certainly, legacy & athlete admissions could be reduced more in order to lessen the discrimination against Asian-Amer
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by MiroF 7y ago
You said that they should admit 10x. Presumably that would mean 50% rather than 5%. I think quality would go down, you said it wouldn't. Seems clear cut to me.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Harvard does do affirmative action based on family income, it's just that people throw much less of a hissy fit over it.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> most affirmative action admits come from very wealthy families You can link a source here, as I'm skeptical that this is actually true. That said, many minority students at elite institutions were already attending elite high scho
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by MiroF 7y ago
> The fact that this had to go to court is somewhat laughable. It sounds like you are unfamiliar with admission law, as negative discrimination without quotas is explicitly legal as of now.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> Any mental gymnastics used to support affirmative action in business or schooling should also apply to sports. Wealth disparities obviously lead to differences in academic achievement, I am not sure it is anywhere near so clear cut for

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