I was driving back with a sweet coworker of mine on the day of SCOTUS’s decision on this case and a story about it came on NPR. Coworker immediately started talking about how one of her high school friends didn’t get into UC Berkeley and it was due to affirmative action.
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That’s an interesting theory. It is, unfortunately, completely erroneous, as you’ve been told a number of times.
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.
It’s my understanding that the UT system accepts the top 10% from every high school in the state. I like this system because the way school systems work in this country give students who live in rich areas better education. At least the UT system is acknowledging the hard work of students at every high school.
And that’s one of many good reasons you need affirmative action—to counterbalance the enormous advantage that legacy candidates have.
you know, it really isn’t nice to speak ill of the dead...
Because I have no interest in amending the second amendment. People in this country clearly prefer to own guns. That’s ok. I’m capable of seeing reality and acknowledging that I’m in the minority on a particular issue. All I want to see, in the end, are reasonable restrictions on that right that protect the immediate…
The conservatives won’t be for gun control until guns are used to perform abortions.
The other thing that gets me is that they say they need guns to take up arms against ‘the Tyranny of Government’, but anytime there IS any kind of protest about the government infringing on civil rights, conservatives are the first to call the protesters jobless thugs and cheer on the police using as much force as…
Eh, Saint Ronnie got popped and the gun control situation has only got worse from there, so I’m not hopeful that they’d respond that way.
It’s the same group of people who are backing a fascist cheeto who are worried about keeping their guns just in case they need to rise up to fight a fascist government that they elected. I think I need to sit down now.
Well since they work in gun free zones while subjecting the rest of us to completely unqualified gun owners on a daily basis, we’re fucked.
When people bring up the specter of false accusations or wrongful convictions, I always ask how it is different from any other crime. Or any other lawsuit. Yes, it is he said/she said many times. So are all sorts of other cases. Yes, there will be wrongful convictions/expulsions and that will be a tragedy. Just like…
What do a few rich people have to do with the fact that the systemic subjugation of women and minorities in America is showing few signs of improvement? Does Carlos Slim being rich have anything to do with police brutality? Does Christy Walton inheriting her family’s fortune put a stop to women being raped with…
We hear a lot about “personal responsibility” when it comes to rape victims as well. Somehow, rapists never have a responsibility not to rape, but rape victims are always entirely responsible for avoiding getting themselves raped. And drunk rapists aren’t responsible for their actions because of the alcohol, but drunk…
2016 America: Where a 12-year old boy is shot and killed by the police for playing with a toy and it’s his fault because he should have “known” that people would see him as a threat, while a full-grown adult who rapes an unconscious woman and tries to flee should only have to endure a couple months of jail because…
Man, I haven't seen a shittier Cardinal rape apology since Bernard Law.
Yes, I agree. I understand the point the article is making, and it’s an important one, but it’s disingenuous to say that this means the sentence isn’t lenient or that the judge didn’t engage in “coddling,” since that’s comparing apples and oranges.
These stats are old, but no reason to think they are not still pretty close. (From Wikipedia). So the sentence is ABSOLUTELY "lenient" compared to a usual sentence for a *convicted* rapist.
Does it say what the average jail time is when looking specifically at people convicted? Since the vast majority of rapists aren’t even tried, of course any time in jail will be more than most of them. I’m interested in how his case fits in the context of other people found guilty.