Jo

I would be fine with:

a) "To heck with equal opportunity, we want racial equality in higher education. Universities should have a racial quota in proportion with the population. There are enough sufficiently Ravenclaw blacks to occupy twelve percent of Harvard and Yale and every other school without flunking out. I get that the Fourteenth Amendment is an obstacle to this, so either universities will have to sacrifice state funding or we'll need to pass a Constitutional amendment allowing equality-of-outcome quotas."

b) "Look, we all want more racial diversity, but telling someone that they cannot attend an institution of higher learning but for their race is just unacceptable."

c) "Look, just 'cause Nazi Germany banned something because it was too beneficial to allegedly inferior races doesn't mean that we should allow it. And hey, a rich history of *American* antiSemitism also just *happens* to agree with me!"

I would be less fine with:

d) "Okay, admittedly having a firm racial quota means using government funds to tell people 'I don't care how qualified you are, if you people were all Feynman and Shakespeare put together we'd *still* reject you, because we simply cannot have more than eight percent Jews; if you were a member of a different race, you would be admitted, but too bad.' But it's necessary to *attain* racial equality. And hey, what's more 'Equal Protection' than proactive positive discrimination?"

e) "Racial diversity is a valid criterion as to the quality of a student body, and if you receive tax funding you can totally have it be a factor in admissions, as long as it isn't a big factor. Tax-funded racial segregation is totally fine as long as it creates a better community. What Fourteenth Amendment?"

f) "We use objective, race-neutral measurements of academic potential to evaluate applicants. Which measurements? Oh, we choose them based on which ones give the most advantage to whatever races we want to accept."

g) "You know what's good for fighting class and racial disparities? Predicating educational opportunities on face-to-face interviews, secondary schooling, extracurricular activities, and take-home assignments."

h) "Why are we searching for broadly popular solutions that would help oppressed minorities today, when we can easily convince a Republican Congress to end all root causes of racial disparity among college applicants?"

I would be even less fine with:

i) "Racial diversity is a valid criterion as to the quality of a student body, and if you receive tax funding you can totally have it be a factor, but it can't be a *big* factor. Also, you're not allowed to use a consistent algorithm that clearly shows exactly how much of a factor it is."