[meee]

I don't have a deep understanding enough to have a strong opinion on this but don't the roles seem reversed? It's my understanding that Asian people are underrepresented at Harvard due to affirmative action. The photos I've seen for this story feature Asian people protesting the decision. Is this a case of people coming together against their own interests to protest a decision they think is unfair? It feels too political for me to get a sense of what is right here. In the long run, since colleges are still free to consider race though writings, isn't this what you would want to see in a healing society? We understand that the pendulum should swing in the direction of helping the underserved and once that footing is there, the goal is always to be agnostic of race. This seems like a baby step to see if the affirmative action worked. Is there something that has happened since the 60s that indicates this should last forever or that the program was reaching it's goals?

[FreshStart]

A healing society? This is the only society who embraced the melting pot and got greatly rewarded for this. There are no wounds, compared to the old world stratified layers and Asia's invisible caste systems&racism. there are working class grievances becoming racism but even that is pretty universal. No wounds but those inflicted by the divide and conquer on all sides.

[orf]

America doesn’t have any implicit caste system, racism or “wounds”? A huge percentage of the population would disagree with you.

People still fly the confederate flag.

[FreshStart]

Some parts of the middle east are a living confederacy right now. There are segregation signs in some shops in china (plus enslavement of poor/woman) and invisible segregation by race in south American politics. People learn about history, people try to avoid repetition of that history and the flag is mostly a symbol against the reintroduction of "caste" in the US. Nazi like shit heads are pretty universal and the US is shining beacon for those escaping these circumstances.

"US always evil exceptionalism"is a plague among the authoritarian left.

[orf]

Yes: bad places exist in the world.

No: the confederate flag is mostly flown by nice well learned history enthusiasts who simply couldn’t bear to see their fellow man of any ethnicity placed in any form of hierarchy or chains, and so display it to show everyone how glad they are that the confederates where defeated.

“US is always number one and everything is just perfect” is a plague among the uneducated right. There is nuance to everything, unfortunately.