So you were referring specifically to elite schools, I see.
They're not as rich but they're still very well off. I suppose you make this point to critique the fact that they are socially disadvantaged? You don't think they are socially disadvantaged but you reckon they are under-qualified and rely on AA. That's a very…
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Well like I said before, I have no problem with tackling problems that relate directly to class. Right now AA is attempting to deal with the intersection of race and class as it relates to minorities specifically. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
At the rate things are going, though more and more…
"just like recruited athletes and development cases, most AA admits are underqualified. and just like recruited athletes and development cases, most of them are rich.
Yes, but this is not only a class issue it is also a race issue. I'm not conflating the two, I just think both are important.
Some people want to erase the issue of race and focus on class but I think that's bs.
In a country with a history of systemically elevating whites at the expense of blacks I don't think you…
Hellz yeah!
Yeah, that's sad.
This is what these messages do. They successfully brainwash people into having inferiority complexes and they end up internalizing all the fucked messages they get from society. Maybe, just maybe, she wasn't exactly as knowledgeable as them due to her different experiences. Is that really the same…
If they find a way to use class more directly, I'm not opposed that to that at all. That'll be great. Get assistance to the most disadvantaged communities out there.
Even if they could do that I'd still be in favor of using race, sexual orientation and gender as factors that determines who gets AA assistance though.
I…
Maybe they could have, but THEY DIDN'T. The person who overcame hardship to get an A- has DEMONSTRATED superior talent as well as hard work.
Sorry I think it's so amoral and whiny to complain that someone less fortunate than you who did just as well as you got your place. If some kid from a slum gets the same grade as…
I think the significant correlations between race and class justify race based affirmative action.
Especially in territories marred by a long history of systematic oppression that worked directly in favor of one race at the expense of another. There is literally no other way to undo that damage. And AA is barely a…
So tired of people using Affirmative Action to assume people got in schools on some act of charity.
If you had access to internet, all the course materials, a tutor, a safe and comfortable space to study, ample free time and the loving support of family and got an A. Well done.
If someone had access to little or none…
So just because different people write articles for this site that means no one is accountable for any of the stuff published here? Writers can just publish things in a vacuum completely contradictory to other articles without making mention of the times they fucked up in the past?
I find the fact that Jezebel, as a…
Um...her "theory on feminism" is fundamentally ANTI-FEMINIST. Feminism is theory that recognizes female subjugation and recognizes hegemonic patriarchal oppression.
Lilly Allen thinks other women are the source of all women's problems. This bitch would fit right in the MRA tag of reddit.
Srsly, why are people really…
"When we last saw her, she was "lampooning Hollywood standards of beauty" by thoughtlessly regurgitatingMiley Cyrus' gross and racist imagery."
Oh, so Jezebel is gonna act like they weren't totally down for her video and exalting it as DA BEST FEMINIST VIDEO EVAR. And when WOC complained of the racism and the…
Tiffany Pollard has given so much to us. She is a legend.
She was outrageous, vulgar, profane, psycho, illogical and kind of evil.
Those all sounds like pejoratives but I actually mean that in the most endearing way. It was beautiful.
Of course.
White people will talk about the holocaust with absolute severity and stoic seriousness.
But when it comes to slavery they suddenly get all punny and light-hearted.
She is a peasant. She's hot. But a peasant.
Jesus, the mental gymnastics people do to justify their racist bullshit is astounding. Thought you just said it was his pattern of speech that made it thuggish, not the cursing?
Now saying "shit" and "motherfucking" automatically makes you thuggish?
African American Vernacular doesn't deserve to be labelled with a pejorative like "thuggish" by default. That's just your racist whiteness talking.
But srsly, try out for that show.