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Accepting arguendo that "tolerance is not a moral precept", and assuming you're referring to Yonatan Zunger's essay, you might consider that he likened it to a peace treaty. Which is now broken. Breaking a peace treaty means active hostilities. Seems like a really bad time to do that, given the current US administration.
I'm pretty sure that remark isn't why Vic Gundotra was driven out.
No, it isn't unique among STEM fields in its gender imbalance. Engineering is more imbalanced.
Yes, instead of the students learning anything, when you send a student to the university you're returned a new student which is almost the same only with more knowledge.
If this succeeds, how will Google and Howard keep whites and Asians from taking too many positions in the class? Outright racial discrimination in university admissions is still illegal, and Howard couldn't seriously argue that they're engaging in affirmative action (their student body is over 90% black)