Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Monday, March 31, 2003 :::
Is the "just one factor" "defense" of racial discrimination logically coherent? Is "looking at the whole of the application" supposed to make a difference? It seems to me that either there is an applicant who is accepted and would not be if of a different race or vice versa, or there is no such applicant; whether the criteria are easily disentangled (or whatever the opposite of looking at the application "holistically" is) seems not terribly relevant to much of anything.