This blog doesn’t do the Politico article that is the source material justice. The “undercounting” thing deals with a genuine issue, although it’s hard to tell who is right. Here’s a paragraph that gets to the heart of it:

OK, here’s a quote from the one source you trust - this shitty site - that makes it clear that in the US “Middle East” is a real thing. Apparently people from the “Middle East” want the census to recognize them as distinct from Asians. It’s even got multiple links you can try and follow to verify that I’m right and…

Well, I also provided you with a link you didn’t bother to read. Had you done so, you’d understand why the US doesn’t have the same definition of Asia that everyone else does.

Eh, I don’t know about that. Washing clothes by hand had to take a hell of a lot more time than using a machine.

Thanks for the info. I take it that the point of asking about it is, among other things, to see who falls into the desired Underrepresented Minority Race group?

Fisher is the precedent now. It addressed Grutter. I’m not sure you’re citing Grutter and Gratz when they’re not the last word on the subject.

I’m American and if you read any comment section, you’ll see that people that are actually Asian are routinely referred to as Middle Eastern.

Here’s a link to the Complaint against Harvard.

I think that redressing, or at least addressing, racial grievances is a good thing.

Well, I can almost guarantee (I can’t actually, I’m totally making this up) that neither Trump nor Jeff Sessions consider anyone from any country west of Laos (approx.) as “Asian.” If they’re west of Laos, the US considers them “Middle Eastern, probably terrorist.”

If you’re indoors you’re supposed to start the day with the Pledge of Allegiance, not the Anthem.

It can’t be jingoism because Canadians play their Anthem before events as well and they’re pretty low key about that.

That’s a good question, but I always thought it increased the drama in a weird way. Everyone’s ready for the game, the players are there, shit’s about to happen . . . and you have to play the Anthem and be quiet for a bit. That happens, and everyone goes crazy for the kickoff. It was drama mixed with sappy patriotism…

I’m glad you mentioned that because my memory is that there were always players present for the Anthem.

But you can follow your own advice as well. Isn’t it apparent that refusing to stand for the Anthem has made race relations worse? It sure as Hell hasn’t improved them.

True, but I’d argue that most people never connected the “protests” to racial inequality/police brutality to begin with.

Apparently, you sign a letter to boycott other schools. I’m not sure what that’s going to accomplish.

I don’t agree with anything you’ve written there. But, to me, everything you’ve written just tends to convince me that taking race into admissions is a problem to begin with. If you’re looking for kids that can stand the strain as well as do well academically, what’s race have to do with it? Why even take that into…

Those cases dealt with white applicants. That’s significant in civil rights cases because the whole rationale for those decisions was that while the admission of minorities based, in whole or in part, on race probably does violate the majority’s civil rights, but it was nonetheless needed to counteract the effects of…

Ha! The first movie couldn’t have been perfect because they’ve released like 4 versions of it and each release is supposed to fix the “errors” in the original to conform to Scott’s idea!