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Re: Racist Comments Cost Conservative Parkland Student a Place at Harvard

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 19 09:02:45 2019, in response to Racist Comments Cost Conservative Parkland Student a Place at Harvard, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 18 14:00:56 2019.

This business of determining “character” should give us all pause, especially when it’s Harvard doing the soul-peering. The history of the word is fraught. When Jewish enrollment increased during the 1920s, Harvard and several other Ivy League institutions responded by saying that academics would no longer be the sole admissions criterion. Instead, lineage and “character” would be considered. Good character often meant the proper ethnic affiliation.