<story><title>Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admission.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nova22033</author><text>now imagine the same resume being sent out to a number of companies: one with a white sounding name and one with a black sounding name. And imagine finding out that the same resume with the white sounding name gets more call backs? I&amp;#x27;m going to assume it&amp;#x27;s the same thing if you replace white with east asian or south asian.</text></item><item><author>cdiddy2</author><text>Good, there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be any systemic race based acceptance criteria. It only increases racism and skepticism.&lt;p&gt;Imagine you have a Hispanic doctor, but you know that the MCAT score for a Hispanic to get into med school is lower than the score an Asian would need. Now you question whether your doctor is as qualified as they should be because of their race, even if they did have an amazing MCAT score.&lt;p&gt;Affirmative action is blatantly racist from all angles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeth___</author><text>Now imagine the same thing again, but this time in the interview where one candidate has a mid western accent, and the other a deep southern one.&lt;p&gt;People use race as a proxy for class. But it isn&amp;#x27;t the only thing. And the more people pretend race is the deciding factor, and not class, the more shitty laws and rules we have in place trying to fix a symptom of a disease everyone wants to pretend isn&amp;#x27;t there.</text></comment>
<story><title>Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admission.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nova22033</author><text>now imagine the same resume being sent out to a number of companies: one with a white sounding name and one with a black sounding name. And imagine finding out that the same resume with the white sounding name gets more call backs? I&amp;#x27;m going to assume it&amp;#x27;s the same thing if you replace white with east asian or south asian.</text></item><item><author>cdiddy2</author><text>Good, there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be any systemic race based acceptance criteria. It only increases racism and skepticism.&lt;p&gt;Imagine you have a Hispanic doctor, but you know that the MCAT score for a Hispanic to get into med school is lower than the score an Asian would need. Now you question whether your doctor is as qualified as they should be because of their race, even if they did have an amazing MCAT score.&lt;p&gt;Affirmative action is blatantly racist from all angles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vowelless</author><text>Now imagine that you both may actually be talking about orthogonal issues....</text></comment>