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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1410372)7/14/2023 6:08:17 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1573863
 
"There is no such thing as pro-Asian affirmative action."

That might explain why AA's were witnesses in favor of keeping it, and none were witnesses against it....or not.

Harvard Senior Who Testified at Admissions Trial Says Many Asian-American Students Support Affirmative Action (chronicle.com)

By Nell Gluckman

OCTOBER 29, 2018



PAT GREENHOUSE, THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY IMAGES
About 200 students, alumni, and employees of Harvard U. gathered in Harvard Square on October 14, 2018, as a lawsuit challenging the university’s use of race in admissions was about to open in federal court in Boston.

Eight Harvard students and alumni testified on Monday in support of affirmative action in the trial challenging their college’s race-conscious admissions policy. These are the only students the judge will hear from; the anti-affirmative-action group that sued Harvard College as discriminating against Asian-American applicants will not call any of its members to the stand.

One of the students, a senior named Thang Q. Diep, has already been mentioned several times in the trial. Diep immigrated from Vietnam to the San Fernando Valley, in California, when he was 8. He didn’t earn a perfect score on the SAT, but he graduated from Cleveland High School at the top of his class and wrote movingly about his

chronicle.com

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"I guarantee you that "woke" culture is more of a "white liberal" thing than anything else."
Woke is a Black creation.

Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination". Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism.

en.wikipedia.org.
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