Because white liberals serve two simultaneous interests by doing so:

1) they get to pat themselves on the back for being soooooo kind to blacks and Hispanics
2) they get to exclude people they see as a threat to the pocketbooks and GPA curves of their spoiled brats

 

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You either don't know the answer or you're running from it.

It's one of the same things that explains our incredibly skewed prison populations. Hopefully in my lifetime I'll see the end of AA, but we're not there yet.

 

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I guess we can throw some random Asian people into jail whenever a black guy commits a felony, because of historical racism?

I mean if you are absolutely certain AA is needed to address racism whites have inflicted on others, the obvious answer would be to punish whites, not "Asians", with affirmative action (as far as college admissions are concerned).

Otherwise you're implying that Asians are "the oppressors", and judging by how no one was able to rebut that point I'm thinking their racist jabs about "penis size" and "driving" are about as good as they've got.

So I'm going to ask again what exactly it was that "Asians" did to white people (especially rich white people) that was so bad.

 

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Very rare.


The amount of black people on financial aid at Harvard is probably well over 85%.

afaik the vast majority of people at Harvard are on financial aid. In fact everyone under $200,000 family income gets some kind of aid, afaik

 

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So your point was pretty stupid. Glad we agree on that.

I didn't say pay the full $200,000. The vast majority of blacks who qualify based on SATs and GPA are upper income blacks, unless you're now going to shoot yourself in the foot (as a liberal) and claim that blacks alone buck the trend. That would kind of destroy what I assume is your position on the SATs and how they relate to socioeconomic status.

I thought you understood that much.

 

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Nobody is being punished, but you will disagree.

Good job with the correct answer btw, which was historical racism. Hundreds of years of slavery doesn't sound like a fun thing to experience as a people. I don't foresee myself looking back at the times of AA after its passing and feeling sadness for the plight of the Asians who didn't get accepted into their reach school.

 

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I don't even know what you're talking about. What do you think "qualifying" based on SATs and GPA is? Harvard doesn't publish numbers about what you need to be qualified.

... so you're saying Harvard doesn't look at GPAs and SATs? Alright then, lets put it in a way that you can't wiggle out of based on asinine semantics, blacks at Harvard tend to be well-off, relatively speaking.

 

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