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by generic_user 2907 days ago
I think this is going to be a watershed case that shows that race based admissions and affirmative action programs no matter the intent are socially and morally regressive. They inevitably lead to racist polices and race based favoritism of one for or another.

"The court documents, filed in federal court in Boston, also showed that Harvard conducted an internal investigation into its admissions policies in 2013 and found a bias against Asian-American applicants. But Harvard never made the findings public or acted on them."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...