• oud@reddthat.com
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    18 days ago

    I don’t agree with Harvard (DEI & Pro-Palestinian protests), but I support them defying this order. They’re a private institution, the government is overstepping here.

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        18 days ago

        The fact that DEI sounds good in theory but in practice it’s just systematic discrimination. Similar to Affirmative Action but that’s already been settled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

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          it’s just systematic discrimination

          I don’t understand how fixing existing discrimination is in itself discrimination. People are not being oppressed because they aren’t being given special treatment anymore. DEI policies have absolutely nothing to do with quotas or giving protected classes special treatment.

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            18 days ago

            Well, when you discriminate, either positively or negatively, it’s discrimination.

            Glad to help clear that up!