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There's several Jewish ethnicities. The largest are Ashkenazi (Euro; 90% of American Jewry) and Mizrahi (MENA; majority of Israeli Jewry). Judaism is a religion, so people who aren…

Like many white americans, my ancestors immigrated after Jim Crow and redlining were abolished

If MIT rejected applicants with better profiles because of the URM checkbox, in some sense they didn't deserve to get in. I'm technically 1/4 Hispanic, but not at all Hispanic in a…

Elite university admissions is zero sum. Harvard doesn't add a seat for race blind admissions for every seat given to affirmative action admits. Making it easier for group A to gai…

"Well, if we follow the meritocratic ideology that everyone has the same opportunities available to them, it would be a natural conclusion" - no, there's always endogenous interact…