That’s an interesting theory. It is, unfortunately, completely erroneous, as you’ve been told a number of times.

Last fall, I was hiring a student lab assistant for the lab I work in. I had it down to two candidates, one black guy, one white. I mentioned to my co-worker that the black guy was a Posse Foundation scholar, and I was thinking that would probably be the final mark in his favor (it’s NOT an easy program to get…

You can’t help kids get better SAT scores by sitting the exam for them. Jia has just admitted that she wrote (or re-wrote, same thing) the admissions essays for her clients. She says she always did this, and while that may be hyperbole, it still indicates that it happened often. Once, frankly, is bad enough. I think…

Yup. I’m also going to presume that she assumed, because they weren’t involved in the same activities she participated in, it must mean they weren’t involved in any activities.

“These upper middle class parents need to get real with their offspring: race and money can only get you so far.”

I don’t think it was the tutoring she was ashamed of, it was that she basically wrote their essays for them.

I’m also a tall lady (over 6') and have had dudes forbid me to wear heels (Birkenstocks are “heels,” dontcha know) and stand on steps non-ironically when we were getting photos taken so they could appear taller. Obviously they didn’t last long, but the fucking nerve.

As a vagina-haver, I am so happy to have partner who loves and supports me, and actually TALKS about it. Dudes I’ve dated (even long term) in the past have said they were proud of me behind closed doors, but would often opt out of events where I received an award or accolade of any kind. My partner is at every event…

ummm, its not just me that sees the irony dripping out of “white nationalists” referring to others as thugs, right???

Look at their sad little home made shields.

Amazing how you and so many others are rushing to the defense of this group and claiming they were peaceful victims. Here is a picture of your precious sons on the day in question. Do you notice anything? These were not peaceful demonstrators. These are men who have and will spill blood in support of their movement.…

“In this particular case I think spying on the N Koreans might be best left to professionals.”

Oh quit your fucking pearl clutching here. Undercover journalism is *always* deceptive. That’s what the word undercover means. We can a sensible discussion about whether or not the value of this particular work makes it worth the risk to the people this woman worked with in North Korea, but protesting on the deception…

kid

“Boys will be boys.”

Your comment reads like you either didn’t read the article or missed the point entirely. Investigative journalism often has the potential risk of harming people—she used all of the mitigating strategies she could, as any investigative journalist would (and does).

It looks like a fascinating book, and the responses from some of the critics blows my mind. I hate to be that person. I can’t help but think that if she were a white man, her face would have been plastered all over the press after the book’s publication, and she’d be called a hero. But the book got mishandled from the…

You know how women are; doing years of preparation, risking their lives, living in a country where they might be killed if they are found out, trying to tell the world about conditions that are deliberately hidden from us- you know, girl stuff. You can’t take it too seriously, you know how emotional they get about…

Some even denounced me, a South Korean woman, as someone who had merely returned “home” to North Korea; to them, I hadn’t gone undercover at all. Which is another way of saying that what I had written was personal, and therefore by definition not authoritative.

Depressing, but not surprising.