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Prediction before reading: The result will be an artefact of the recommendation statistics. The overwhelming sentiment of NYT readers (say 80%) will be "Oh no not my poor little African Americinos, don't you dare end AA!", but there will be so many comments to this effect that the upboats are diluted across all of them, yielding a mediocre average score for a pro-AA comment. Conversely, so few anti-AA people are willing to stick their head over the parapet for a probable public drubbling / witch hunt / costing them their job for doing a racism, that the handful of anti-AA comments absorb all the upboats from the 20% of anti-AA people, yielding an evaporative cooling effect that makes the anti-AA comments, ironically, the most upboated.
After reading: It's different flavours of "didn't build this institution but want to benefit its patrimony" ethnic groups squabbling over their slice of the spoils system. Well, that's not incompatible with my prediction, but I accept defeat in that it is at best noncentral with my prediction.
I don't think dilution works this way -- hardly anyone reads all the comments, mostly they're going to look at "most recent" comments or "most upvoted" comments. Neither of those are going to push towards dilution.
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This is it - it's still short-sighted selfish crap overall. Whites being shit on was never and still isn't a problem - but the hard working Asians missing out is just too much to stomach.
Saying that they still want socio-economic diversity is plugging a fist-size hole in the dike that protects meritocracy with a finger. It's always going to be an end run for ethnic spoils. The real "solution" to improve equality by stopping the cost disease in higher education is so far away and difficult to implement that I guess this is the best anyone can stomach.
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