> every policy that wants to promote equality should revolve solely around class.
That was the case in USSR. There were university admission quotas for workers, peasants, etc. In practice, they resulted in discrimination agains Jewish applicants.
To fulfill the class quotas, the examiners had to fail a disproportionate number of some of the strongest applicants. A whole set of "Jewish problems", colloquially known as " coffins", was developed. At MIT, Tanya Khovanova has written on this subject.
Not sure exactly how this relates, but you're still saying with people being failed that the class representation was more equitable? Not sure what them being jewish has anything to do with it?
A brutal truth is that wealthy, upper class people have resources for training their kids that legitimately better prepare them for academic success than poorer kids.
Those distinctions are irrelevant. Education was free in USSR. Access to math circles and specialized math schools was also free. It was not necessary to hire a tutor or pay for advanced classes to get admitted, unless we’re talking about the Conservatory or MGIMO.
Source: I was born and received education in USSR, so can tell Soviet propaganda from reality.
Friend of mine's boyfriend was born in the USSR and was Jewish. To get into college he had to pass a mathematics test that anyone who learned math in high school wouldn't be able to pass. He got in. Then his dad applied for a visa to move to Israel and they kicked him out.
Guy hates communists, leftists, f*scists, Putin, and anything like DEI. Basically anyone that seems to have a habit of doing to people what the communists did to him.
I think it's a good point to be really suspicious of systems that categorize people into convenient boxes based on things that have no control over. That then determines what happens to them.
That was the case in USSR. There were university admission quotas for workers, peasants, etc. In practice, they resulted in discrimination agains Jewish applicants.
To fulfill the class quotas, the examiners had to fail a disproportionate number of some of the strongest applicants. A whole set of "Jewish problems", colloquially known as " coffins", was developed. At MIT, Tanya Khovanova has written on this subject.