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E30: Affirmative Action, the Administrative State, and The Right's Victory in the Courts

"Moment of Zen"

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The Rise of Affirmative Action in America

If you're Asian, you have to get like several hundred points better on this AT than Hispanic or Black person to get into the same spot. And we saw this flare up in New York City schools, Stuyvesant, right? Asians were doing well, they were well over-representative relative to their sort of population size because they were performing way better on tests. So when it's poor, brown people have a different, Asian people, it's hard to ignore injustice. I think there are enough Asian people getting into Harvard. We need to be more socially conscious.

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