Please get out of here with this BS.

No matter who you are if your sob story begins with “While attending Yale...” then no one cares.

People are not going nuts about an email published week ago, that was the jumping off point/catalyst for a greater discussion of issues of discrimination at Yale. Have you not read the grievances of the countless students of have come forward with issues of very overt racism on campus?

If you’re talking about Yale specifically, then many—hell, many people that weren’t even lower to lower-middle class would not have had Yale, being that the tuition was $50,000 a year and rising when I was there. I would say less than half of the students’ families there could have paid a substantial amount or all of…

Ha. I should be asking you, since you seem to have all the answers/were there/are apparently a member of the admissions committee. How are you defining very poor?

Who said we’re not moving forward? Obviously these very bright, motivated students are moving forward/accomplishing things with their lives. You can move forward and still try to leave things behind you a little better.

Yale makes considerable efforts to reach out to and accept students in underprivileged communities/underperforming districts, especially in its home/surrounding New Haven, which is largely minority and lower class. Every year a substantial percentage of the population comes from New Haven high schools, as well as…

See, I tried to list the instances that might have been difficult for the community as a whole to deal with, and not just me on a personal level— because I feel like if I listed all the instances of casual and overt racism I dealt with, all the micro-agressions and times I was discriminated against and/or made to feel…

The irony of “minorities coming from privilege” is pretty palpable. Obviously minorities can possess other forms of privilege (although money and class are basically the same thing), but possessing one form of privilege (for example, being a man) doesn’t mean you don’t suffer from other kinds (for example, being…

I do recognize my privilege. I grew up in a very poor, inner-city neighborhood (cry me a river, I know). Many of my friends and family did drop out of high school/got into deep shit early on/never even considered college. I feel very lucky for my educational privilege, but that doesn’t mean I just ignore the other…

Provably false, but keep trying.

Haha I basically wrote this below, but you wrote it clearer and more succinctly :)

I have no idea who this person is, but it doesn’t sound like someone who would have been at that meeting. Please don’t judge all of us because of this one trollish sounding person.

Almost all students? That’s blatantly false. I certainly wasn’t, and many many students and alum I knew were not. LIke me, there were plenty of lower-to-middle class, minority students (who were on full scholarships).

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Crazy (and also kind of sad) how the announcers/players think it’s just firecrackers outside the stadium. How the world has changed. Can’t help but think in post 9/11 America, people would have been like “Bitch MOVE it’s going down and I’m getting OUT OF HEEEREE.”

Didn’t you just make this comment on the other article? We get it man, you’re Islamophobic.

Hasn’t 50 cent vomited a string of really homophobic things (not to mention his homophobic music) over his entire career? And Graham Norton had him on?

I would have loved Communism Didn’t Die, It’s Just Sleeping. But this is acceptable.

These banks don’t exist in California. I learned that the hard way.