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		nicoburns on Aug 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white a... Socioeconommic conditions are themselves not independent of race though. It's not so long ago that it was perfectly legal to discriminate who got a job on the basis of Race, and it was commonplace for people to do so.

throwaway0a5e on Aug 14, 2020 [–]

I intentionally used the phrase "happens to correlate with race for historical reasons" to cover this.

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