petersuber ,
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Whoa. If people are disadvantaged in a field by a bigoted perception of their merit, then they should be prohibited from studying in that field.

"The School of Management and Business (HSB) at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi believes the connection between height and success is so significant that people who are supposedly "too short" should no longer be allowed to study."
https://www.dw.com/en/vietnam-outrage-at-student-height-requirement/a-69538765


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petersuber OP ,
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I can't stop thinking about this.

First, is real, if you hadn't noticed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_discrimination

The question is whether schools recognizing that it's real should practice it or counter it.

This school is not practicing heightism inadvertently, the way many orgs manifest bias without thinking. It's practicing heightism 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 it recognizes that heightism is real.

Imagine entrenching other forms of simply on the ground that they already exist.

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