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		HPsquared on Aug 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white a... I wouldn't use Congress as an example, as both houses have been elected by popular vote since the seventeenth amendment. Slippery slope in action...

jgalt212 on Aug 13, 2020 [–]

I was referring the the balance of power between large states (House) and small states (Senate) as a metaphor for not wholly espousing the binary outcome equality of opportunity or equality of outcome.

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