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You can separate race in the context of college admissions from economics, yes. That isn't living in a vacuum or unrealistic.

+1, SimpleX is awesome.

This is awesome!

Non-whites having less access is good in this context, because they were being unfairly given an advantage before. I agree with your premise about bias, but why should the solution to that be to artificially inflate the people being discriminated against, instead of trying to provide a system that doesn't have room for discrimination?

Class based alternative action, along with anonymizing applicant details pertinent to their race is a meaningful alternative to AA.

Remove the name from the application information too then. I disagree that your city of birth, school, or hobby could give someone enough information to reasonably infer your race.

I don't think the solution to racism in college admissions is to assume the people selecting will be biased and discriminate the other way around. The solution is to make a procedure where there is no room for anything other than absolutely stupid outliers. Maybe one in a thousand college admissions counselor would try to infer a students race, but that counselor is just terrible at their job in that case (in a world where the pertinent details have been anonymized).

If anything, I think its conjecture to assume there will be an implicit bias even if pertinent information to race is removed from applications.

I totally agree with your reasoning, XMPP is a better solution than Signal and Session imo. Having more control over your metadata is definitely valuable, however, I think SimpleX Chat could be a really good alternative to XMPP. The concept is really solid, a decentralized system of unidirectional message queues.

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That is the main improvement messengers like Session and SimpleX Chat try to solve. As long as Signal requires a phone number (a highly identifying piece of information), there will always be metadata.

Absolutely. The only real privacy issue you face using a public XMPP server is that you trust all of your metadata (everything inferred and included with the message besides actual text content) to the server administrator. If all of your XMPP messages are moving through your server, you are in control of your metadata.

I believe judicial review could work if the entire point of being a justice was to interpret absolutely every word of the constitution literally. If that was the case, we would actually have a solid foundation to the law of the land. Instead, justices have time and time again made decisions off of words they think are implied even if not stated at all in the constitution.

I don't think the Constitution's literal interpretation is perfect, but the entire point is to amend the document as needed.

They said they would do one thing, and haven't followed through. I would call that bullshitting, I just think it's nothing out of the ordinary.

I don't see how anonymizing race on college admissions is pure conjecture and a talking point. I agree with the quote you say as if it proves me wrong; if the people doing the admissions do not know the students applying, there can be no racial bias in their selection of students. If that's conjecture, do you have a reason that would not be the case?