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> discriminate against whites and Asians in favor of dumber middle-class blacks and hispanics

I think there's ample evidence to indicate that it's not just intelligence at play but the opportunities available to individual students that makes their relative academic success possible. It's a naive argument that the under-representation of particular classes in higher education is because they're 'dumb'

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I didn’t make that argument. The argument is that those attending the institutions are dumber than the Asians and whites they’re replacing (edit: at the margin, obviously), because schools unfairly discriminate in their favor. These aren’t pygmalion geniuses from the ghetto, they’re middle-class kids with cell phones and laptops. Half of black Americans in the Ivy League are from post-civil war immigrant stock. An over-represented minority.

I am an Asian who was definitely discriminated against during the college admission cycle. It really really sucked. Luckily out here in the "real world", a lot of that discrimination flips and I benefit from being an Asian in tech in many ways. I don't feel the least bit guilty about it either.

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