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they beg to differ:

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:14:21 +0000

In reply to People like similarities and

they beg to differ:

'Merica https://t.co/XIQeUWsKjF
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 20, 2021

People like similarities and

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 07:01:50 +0000

In reply to This tweet and video made me

People like similarities and sometimes differences. YMMV. Prolly 90% of romantic pairings in the world are 2 of the same ethnic tribe. Part of this is sexual, part behavioral, part just the psychology of knowingness & shared culture - which can be LA beach surfers or Macon, Georgia church community (or whatever they do there). We sometimes go for "exotic", but either matching exotic or exotic that doesn't stray too far from our homegrown (so we can cut our hair and take that management position w/o too much splainin the tattoos). A lot of the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is from an earlier life phase of experimenting more, which doesn't always last, though with the growing diversity and changing numbers, there is more mixing for curiosity/interest-friendahip with "the other". Still, homogenous groups - who you go to parties with or meet after work - are still more the norm. Claiming this is innate racism or some other pejorative is just denying who we are as people, whatever variance there is between individuals and groups. (obviously we also group mostly in small groups of females, small groups of males, sometimes 2-4 males with one token girl, and then paired romantic potential or actual romantic partners. Occasionally there might be 3 or 4 couples who all do stuff together - see Friends for an unusual concoction that served humor well).

This tweet and video made me

artappraiser — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 06:31:38 +0000

In reply to I thought we only had 4 races

This tweet and video made me think of how I must have imagined it, as I have this memory of when I was young that this country was like torn apart by forced integration of the schools for the very reason expressed below. I must be getting age-related dementia and remembering things wrong?

Two kids—one we'd race as "white," one we'd race as "black"—selected one another for "twin day" at school.

"We have the same eyebrows."

Kids have to learn to racialize themselves and others.

Watch the video : https://t.co/vF7zDxZDsM
— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) July 17, 2021

this kind of number is why

artappraiser — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 22:20:48 +0000

In reply to [Havoc over schooling] Kentucky Ed. Chief to teachers: Stop 'hateful,' 'nasty' emails

this kind of number is why education social justice warriors don't like testing and grading? is like: if you can't see it, then it can't be true? grandma used to call that sort of thing "sweeping it under the rug"?

https://t.co/3Md3C8omUK
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) July 14, 2021

I thought we only had 4 races

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:40:23 +0000

In reply to The National Association of

I thought we only had 4 races and 4 or 5 genders.

The National Association of

artappraiser — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 05:12:14 +0000

In reply to [Havoc over schooling] Kentucky Ed. Chief to teachers: Stop 'hateful,' 'nasty' emails

The National Association of Independent Schools is openly promoting segregation in K-12 schools.

This is neo-racism in action. https://t.co/v5lQnUWKU3
— Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) (@fairforall_org) July 12, 2021

I don't think I met another desi person in public school until I was in high school. Not sure which "race-based affinity group" I would've been placed into, maybe they would've just had me draw straws https://t.co/XquhjSJUEs
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 15, 2021

comes to mind with your

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:41:39 +0000

In reply to Black people are owed tenure,

comes to mind with your comment about "working one's way up" that "tenure upon hiring" is quite an unusual thing, and as you suggest, something a university would offer only to a big celebrity draw, which is exactly the kind of thing they have been doing that he's complaining about, hah. That's our Cornel!

(My initial thought was about another roll-one's-eyes type of thing: that's it's so easy to take a stand against an employer and resign over it when you are about to retire with an assured income.)

Online-only sux; onground up

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:12:10 +0000

In reply to [Havoc over schooling] Kentucky Ed. Chief to teachers: Stop 'hateful,' 'nasty' emails

Online-only sux; onground up works

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancraig/2021/07/09/the-edtech-gap-between...

Black people are owed tenure,

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 07:46:00 +0000

In reply to As a natural cynic I looked

Black people are owed tenure, is that the message these 2 are giving us? Silly me assumed most professors worked their way up to tenure, and if transferring schools *might* keep tenure if desirable enough. Yes, at 68 Cornel is a bit shop-worn, not the draw he was 10 years ago, and his stands against the schools he's part of might wear out his welcome, shitting in his own yard we call it?

I don't like the phrasing.

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 07:37:00 +0000

In reply to This exchange encapsulates a

I don't like the phrasing.

I posted a while ago about a black woman who went for a divinity degree and then some Masters (or reverse), she & her husband ended up with a half million or so in student debts. I wouldn't claim she was unqualified. I would claim she was extremely unwise in taking on so much debt for u monetizable professions. (i think she's in the student advisement office at some college).

Since they made college tuition and loans big business, it's like old credit card targeting days - everyone's a lamb to the slaughter. So yes, some won't be cut out for college (though I'd argue that sometimes a well-tried but failed 1 or 2 years can still be valuable, tho Community College might be a better choice), but the biggest issue is giving all loans for all programs without some reality check for ability (and pain) if paying it all back.

Plus I'll do a check on what % of the student loan crisis is black, seeing as blacks are only 13% of the population and I'd guess a smaller % of the college cohort.

Oh. That's a high % of blacks graduating in the over-$40k segments