Comment by NeverFade | Hacker News Reader

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> I think you made this situation up without considering other factors because you have an ideological agenda.

> Arcidiacono shows that, after narrowing down applicants to those with the strongest objective academic qualifications, Asian Americans were far more likely than blacks or Hispanics to receive a low personality score from admissions officers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/06/harvar...

So we know for a fact that Asians received lower "personality" scores than blacks and hispanics, as a racial group and regardless of their financial status, and these lower "personality" scores were used as a basis to reject Asians and accept black and hispanic candidates.

TL;DR we know for a fact this exact thing is happening.

Yeah, that sounds like racial discrimination against Asian students! You'll note that I did not say there was no such thing as racial discrimination against Asian students, so I'm not sure how this is relevant.

So we know there is racial discrimination against Asians based on their race, and in favor of blacks and hispanics. Yet when I cited an example of an Asian kid getting rejected in favor of a black kid, you claimed I invented it. When you now admit we know it is happening.

At no point did I say that wasn't happening. I was responding to your comment about economic factors. Did I misunderstand your original comment? You said:

> I'm sure that will be a great comfort to the Asian kid who was born in poverty, got bullied in school, struggled all his life to achieve the grades and stats to qualify for a top school, then got rejected in favor of a rich black American kid

Is this not about the interaction between economic status and race in the context of affirmative action?

> In clearer words: I think you made this situation up

> At no point did I say that wasn't happening.

So it is happening, yet "I made it up"? It is both real and made up, at the same time?

You made up the relationship between economic status and race in this particular situation in order to strike an emotional chord. No?

They pointed out blacks can have money and non-blacks can be poor.

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