The left's oppression narrative makes the poorest blacks the most sacred and valued of all. But this same narrative won't consider that oppressive forces operate against white people, so "trailer park" whites are ignored. Poor blacks are victims. Poor whites deserve their status. https://t.co/VoDhpX2Q5M
In the left's shifting theological system, poor blacks have always been saintly, but poor whites are now seen as tainted by the original sin of racism, and their path to redemption has become unclear.
To explain their position. Whiteness has power inherently, lift the disadvantaged Caucasian, give him a makeover, connections, some ed and he can easily become a powerful oppressor. The same cannot happen at the same rate with poor blacks. The question becomes if true.
I agree. But, if a lot of the air time given to problems on campus were shifted to problems lower on the economic ladder, it would do much good for blacks and whites.
I grew up as trailer trash with a single mom. I put myself through college and work in tech. I get a bit angry when people say I'm privileged because I'm white, like we can't be born in poverty too. Especially from people who never had to live in a car.
Identity politics fights against hate, but it also preaches hate to signal virtue. Progressives herd people into identity groups to control natural competition. But with individual identities stoked, groups fracture creating the very danger progressives sought to ameliorate.
The larger point is we no longer view individuals as captains of their fate. Instead, they are “bodies” at the mercy of outside forces. On the left, black bodies; and on the right, the mythical “working class.”
Part of me says the "equality" is frequently quite wishful, that paying attention to the stats to measure outcomes and finding new ways to untilt the field as needed will be an ongoing process.But that untilting the field means the white trailer trash mother and kids get a hand, Kanye's kids don't need more, and hard work such as in Asian families frequently shouldn't be punished. But there are also natural benefits from living in Silicon Valley if you're in tech, LA if you're in film, NY if you're in finance. Trying to fix all the world's disequilibria is madness. Why was Ari Onassis able to hitch a ride to Buenos Aires, arrive with $5, yet end up a billionaire? Why don't we teach *that* lesson more? Was it his "white male privilege"? Why isn't Greece auperwealtgy then?
The Secret Joke at the Heart of the Harvard Affirmative-Action Case
A federal official wrote a parody of Harvard’s attitude toward Asian Americans and shared it with the dean of admissions. Why did a judge try to hide that from the public?
Wrote about the sad teens, social media, and the sickest shit on the internet: Kids posting real time videos of themselves getting rejected from college. https://t.co/p0ZffYThmz
There’s also a lot of kids who got into elite schools who now post content on how they made it. This dude goes to Duke and makes tons of videos where he reviews your ‘stats’ and predicts where you’ll get in. pic.twitter.com/7YS98gh3Oh
all these videos are seeking any explanation or coherence in what has become a totally arbitrary process. The "stats" they all discuss are pretty much the same and bc the process is opaque, what they're doing is coping by trying to explain something that's unexplainable via data pic.twitter.com/NS0qCTEqR7
within this space where every decision feels like life or death and where so much feels arbitrary, the subtext underneath all these videos is that race is the only thing that matters. You can see it in the comments to every video, its discussed constantly. pic.twitter.com/Vz1ORx4819
Really interesting @anemonanyc profile of Richard Kahlenberg, the liberal professor who has become the key expert arguing against race-based affirmative action, favoring class-based approaches instead:https://t.co/RcVdMe0DDv
“Racially oppressed people are not oppressed because of their race. They are oppressed because of false beliefs about their race. We can acknowledge and remedy racist practices without also upholding race.”
This is probably the friendliest form of the Sailer map. Looking at it here makes me think - “is anyone less represented in American culture than the German Midwest?” Southerners are looked down on but they are at least portrayed https://t.co/JS9bRWEJuy
This map also shows the difficulty of conveying this type of information - it’s just the “top” for each county - so you get Southern states where people are either “white” or “black” showing as black here because white people choose between “English”, “Irish”, “American” etc
hijacking thread for a moment, but related to above map, excellent point from an outsider about how political partisan Americans delude themselves with their spin:
For all those who really take this "national divorce" malarkey seriously, America is way too mixed, integrated, intricate & complicated for partition to work on its own terms.
Also the idea that 'red vs blue' tribalism is a serious basis for national consciousness is puerile. https://t.co/CfYqIsbAtu
Take it from those of who come from parts of the world that have experienced partition (courtesy of the British empire), stop fantasising over it. It doesn't work. It necessitates bloodshed. It exacerbates and intensifies the problems its meant to 'solve'. It won't end.
Bro goes to high school in Bixby, Oklahoma. It's a big assumption to think that the 16th best high school in Oklahoma regularly places students—any students—in the Ivies. https://t.co/2XLrJTL0uB
It’s convenient that the University of Chicago provides a private supplemental police force for Hyde Park (and faculty get discounted tuition to send their kids to the university-run private K-12 school) pic.twitter.com/m19zyDyG7o
An extra 5% Asian - near 30% - plus 10% "2 or more" can drop those white numbers.
But I also recall places where Blacks "only" had 20% or so, despite making up 12-13% of the population, and that caused some scandal.
With the SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action drawing closer and closer, the #BlasianMarch says that Asian and Black communities will NOT be pitted against each other to dismantle this step towards economic restorative justice.https://t.co/7pparS2WNx
Maybe I’m the only one who cares about this, but colleges declining to consider SAT scores is really bad news for academically ambitious home schoolies. https://t.co/Tof2kH661o
I believe we need to rethink how and where "academically ambitious" people can the best experiences. I know many homeschooled kids who never took the SAT and are thriving in post-graduate programs at a variety of institutions.
In principle I agree. In practice I feel extremely lucky to have spent four years where I did and I don’t think even the really good alternatives more open to home schoolies (St Johns, eg) could have matched it
The Post-College doom loop. Higher education “increasingly looks like the country’s car industry in the 1970s, just before it was taken apart by the Japanese-hampered by a giant bureaucracy,contemptuous of many of its workers&congenitally inward-looking.” https://t.co/PBVUpdIHc1
I used to think all the wealthy black athletes would leave lots of opportunity for new generations, but I'm starting to think there are some data points I didn't consider.
Pew poll of American adults finds 74 percent think race and ethnicity should not be considered in admissions decisions. For gender, 82 percent think it shouldn’t be considered.https://t.co/tRzG2LTsxEhttps://t.co/5Y4Gc0Wh7J
133 senators and representatives in the 118th Congress identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American, American Indian or Alaska Native. This number has nearly doubled in the two decades since the 108th Congress of 2003-05, which had 67 minority members. https://t.co/1bqZU2xU2Hpic.twitter.com/DThqSMAqvd
— Pew Research Race and Ethnicity (@pewidentity) May 3, 2023
Integration requires individuals becoming integrated. Individual integration requires making peace w/ the full complexity of who you are & carrying that peace into your communities which then become integrated. This is very hard. It is the task we're focused on at @enchanttheory
Individual integration requires making peace w/ your shadows & your light, with what you like about yourself & what you don't, with your sorrows & your suffering so that you might be able to carry it without allowing it to ossify into rage and resentment. Again: this is hard.
Sustained systemic change cannot happen if you don't do this work. And that's because without this work, you remain a stranger to your own operating system. You don't even know yourself. And when pain arises, instead of carrying it, you will cope by casting it onto others.
We face a great crisis. So many of our fellow humans are desperate for coping mechanisms to deal with the pain and suffering we're all experiencing. I know that feeling. I know what it's like to feel depressed and hungry for meaning. So I built something to help.
But I can't do this alone and I can't spread it alone. I need people, people like you to traverse this course, give me feedback, and help spread the word so we can all build this together.
Nobody in the whole ducking history of the universe had time for this much bullshit. If they're not killing you or enslaving you, that's 2/3 of the way there.
People are largely shits. So short of Jesus coming back to straighten it all out (notice he didn't do it the 1st time), just expect it's a bit more than parting the sea. Settle for the improvements, and stop all your bitching, you perfectionists.
A real issue in American race relations is that only whites are actually expected to follow what is presented as the universal normative standard: no ethnic-over-national identification, no slurs or mild ethnic jokes ever, no admitting to some preference for your group, etc.
— Wilfred X. Reilly, Californian (@wil_da_beast630) May 3, 2023
(2) Like, as re the Tucker Carlson "white dudes don't fight like that" e-mail 'scandal,' I can both think "Eh - that line's kinda weak"......and also realize no one would have cared at all had I or a more famous brother said the exact same thing and subbed in "Black" for "white."
— Wilfred X. Reilly, Californian (@wil_da_beast630) May 3, 2023
By Pamela Paul @ NYTimes.com, May 25, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET
In 1991, Stephen L. Carter, a professor at Yale Law School, began his book “Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby” with a discomfiting anecdote. A fellow professor had criticized one of Carter’s papers because it “showed a lack of sensitivity to the experience of Black people in America.” When the professor, who was white, learned that Carter was Black, he withdrew the remark rather than defend his claim. It was a reminder to Carter that many people, especially among his fellow establishment elites, had certain expectations of him as a Black man.
“I live in a box,” he wrote, one bearing all kinds of labels, including “Careful: Discuss Civil Rights Law or Law and Race Only” and “Warning! Affirmative Action Baby! Do Not Assume That This Individual is Qualified!”
This was a book that refused to dance around its subject.
Weaving personal narrative with a broader discussion of affirmative action’s successes and limitations, “Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby” offered a nuanced assessment. A
graduate of Stanford and Yale Law School, Carter was a proud beneficiary of affirmative action. Yet he acknowledged the personal toll it took (“a decidedly mixed blessing”) as well as affirmative action’s sometimes troubling effects on Black people as the programs evolved over time.
I first read “Reflections” for a class on city politics at Brown University shortly after it came out, and shortly after Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court to fill the seat formerly held by Thurgood Marshall, for whom Carter had served as a clerk. The fact that Thomas was very likely nominated because he was Black and because he opposed affirmative action posed a conundrum for many supporters of racial preferences. Was being Black enough? Or did you have to be “the right kind” of Black person? It’s a question Carter openly wrestles with in his book.
In anticipation of what many expect will be the end of affirmative action when the Supreme Court issues decisions in two cases about college admissions at the end of the current term, I thought I’d return to the book that first got me thinking seriously about the subject. What immediately struck me on rereading it was how prescient Carter was about these debates 32 years ago. What role affirmative action should take was playing out then in ways that continue to reverberate.
The end of affirmative action, in Carter’s view, was both necessary and inevitable. “We must reject the common claim that an end to preferences ‘would be a disastrous situation, amounting to a virtual nullification of the 1954 desegregation ruling,’” he wrote, quoting the activist and academic Robert Allen. “The prospect of its end should be a challenge and a chance.”
For Carter, affirmative action was a necessary stopgap measure to remedy historical discrimination. Like many people today — both proponents and opponents of affirmative action — he expressed reservations about relying on diversity as the constitutional basis for racial preferences.
The diversity argument holds that people of different races benefit from one another’s presence, which sounds desirable on its face. But the implication of recruiting for diversity, Carter explained, had less to do with admitting Black students to redress past discrimination and more to do with supporting and reinforcing essentialist notions about Black people.
An early critic of groupthink, Carter warned against “the idea that Black people who gain positions of authority or influence are vested a special responsibility to articulate the presumed views of other people who are Black — in effect, to think and act and speak in a particular way, the Black way — and that there is something peculiar about Black people who insist on doing anything else.” [....]
Don't have to agree 100% to see this as a very intriguing point:
The Democrats in the US have the universities and the Republicans the churches. The churches have flaws but their great strength is they seek to include, whereas universities are ranked better when they exclude more people. https://t.co/Y5OQmfnhKi
Oh Jesus fuck me - a church is a once a week free club you don't have to prep for.
A college is a paid commitment to dozens of hours a week.
Compare Church with Game of Thrones, except you can watch it at home and not so many seasons, but still, it's about the same time and money commitment as church, and it's a topic to socialize around.
And then there's going to the gym or fitness, where you actually have to out in some work to get whatever results you think you want. Do you want a community college bod, a college bod, an elite university bod? You gotta work and pay. Not like Harvard, but there's till "no pain, no gain".
NYC has stupid rules about what banks have to do to get the opportunity to handle the public's money:
Since banks try to maximize their profits, they only discriminate based on competence and credit worthiness. What N.Y.C wants is for banks to hire and make loans to minority applicants, even if they are less qualified and more likely to default. https://t.co/q20IG75ITO
Capital One prohibits discrimination and harassment against "any applicant, intern, associate, vendor, contractor, customer, or client" but it's not enough to prevent the NYC Banking Commission from freezing the city's deposits https://t.co/sVmUsAa7bUpic.twitter.com/1Ls5OJFAfK
Hand-waving away people of color deemed "white adjacent" for their views isn't going to work anymore. They are a robust and vital part of America and a model for the dissolution of obsession with race and ethnicity.#affirmativeaction#wokehttps://t.co/W7XvgZK0UE
"Andrew Brennen, 27, is entering Columbia Law School this fall, perhaps the last class shaped by race-conscious admissions. Mr. Brennen’s family was [should be IS] upper-middle class; his father was a dean at the University of Kentucky law school." https://t.co/M1VZrawtvH
The internet boom is coming to a 2nd end, but might have been nice for affirmative action to target those with computer and math skills back when it was a game changer. But identity politics will live on.
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, putting an end to affirmative action in higher education. https://t.co/qCOtkgbxQOpic.twitter.com/jv4l1qxcyq
Justice Clarence Thomas blasts Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's arguments in his concurrence:
KBJ "locks blacks into a seemingly perpetual inferior caste. Such a view is irrational; it is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push through… pic.twitter.com/c3fUQPWETP
Ketanji Brown Jackson has a two-part footnote on Clarence Thomas.
She says he "responds to a dissent I did not write... demonstrates an obsession with race consciousness that far outstrips my or UNC’s... ignites too many more straw men to list, or fully extinguish, here." pic.twitter.com/s4XQ39kyyI
One of the things Obama did as a candidate in 2008 was leverage his unique personal standing to stake out some moderation positions that would be very spicy for a white Democrat (he didn't even use concern for Asians as a fig leaf). https://t.co/TPdeKtR5pLpic.twitter.com/inV2fgAx3q
Better said, he updated his worldview to one where a large number of blacks are middle class and quite a few even upper class. Including obviously him and the upbringing his kids got.
Having Clarence Thomas on the take from billionaires and then lecturing about bias & racism is ugly. In a reasonable system he'd be out of a job for at least not reporting his influence money that he claims didn't influence maybe he's right - maybe he'd be a fucked no matter what, but it's still not right.
In the end I'll have to look and see if there was actually anything wrong with Harvard and UNC's affirmative action. But funny how the court consistently misses the chance to require North Carolina make voting equal for all.
Huh? re: funny how the court consistently misses the chance to require North Carolina make voting equal for all.
The US Supreme Court knocked down a bid by North Carolina Republican lawmakers trying to wrest greater control of federal elections after the state’s legislature approved a new voting map reflecting population changes after the 2020 Census https://t.co/EXirCjQYaUpic.twitter.com/2RVEre5Y1q
Former head of Obama Auto Task Force. Wall Street financier. Contributing Writer to NY Times Op-Ed. Morning Joe Economic Analyst
.@scotus got this one right. Student loan forgiveness discriminates against those who paid off their debt and those whose parents scrimped and saved so their kids wouldn't have debt.https://t.co/XoKddcPzfZ
My Dad was quite tight on vacations and other expenses, saved up so plenty for college & more. The neighbors were always going different places, boating to Hawaii and such, don't think their 2 daughters had anything saved for college. Others on the block were largely community college, some in-state public university.
He's ignoring the biggest divide, Trump vs Biden voters, and also agnori g that the preponderance of white population overrides the minority consideration.
Plus, the concept of an absolute ban on affirmative action ignores areas of need and conflates everything, which may be convincing for a 60-year-old black man looking at retirement, but a 22-year-old trying to get employment or gov services in say South Carolina or Tennessee (or Arizona - it's not just the south for sure) may encounter more structural issues at play in *some* fields. At a time when we're much more able to finely slice & dice data and determine causes for various phenomena, it seems naive and wrongheaded to take a class of remedial efforts off the table for an idealistic aspiration that isn't always held up in practice, sometimes with glaring prejudice among representatives who have the majority and are able to force unequal outcomes with a "my way or the highway" approach. It's a bit similar to my feeling about abortion - I'd like to solve it *more and more* hrough an earlier chemical treatment that avoids discussions and sometimes valid concerns about human good, but the more dogmatic will focus on supposed 9th month abortions and total bans on access and availability of actual clinics.
It pisses me off that this late in the game 1 particular ethnic category is more mired in poverty and crime/violence, and overall less education/literacy/etc. But a sweeping ruling that says "just treat them the same" doesn't look promising, and strategies for workable improvements remain dubious, though I suppose some that have been tried have the data to prove they help. It's a complex social issue. The "gun rights" advocates have made it worse, but that's not the only reason. Woke posturing has us going into a similar "just don't say anything with microagression and put in some more DIA/CRT slots so these honkies can get with the modern program" is often as distasteful and disruptive as these overreaching equality laws.
Even more telling and unbelievable: The story of Patrick Chavis, one of the medical students admitted to UC Davis under the old quota system that was the focus of the landmark Bakke SCOTUS case. (Spoiler: It did NOT end well—for anyone.)#AffirmativeActionhttps://t.co/JRutqFJyrL
Not sure how you can look at this data, ostensibly be interested in either meritocracy or equality, and want to move away from standardized tests. It's the subjective measures that are most slanted in favor of the rich kids.https://t.co/r4rNYBnrfKpic.twitter.com/S8w8HQ0yz9
Share of Americans who say there has been a great deal or a fair amount of progress on racial equality in the last 60 years, among those who identify with or lean to:
The Republican Party: 67%
The Democratic Party: 38%https://t.co/ygtgKbN6j7pic.twitter.com/aGy12D8r7o
NEW: Top law school officials are brainstorming ways to circumvent the affirmative action ban, advising schools not to create a "record" of "discriminatory intent" and warning that socioeconomic preferences will result in too many white and Asian admits.https://t.co/JuTN2nu31b
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by artappraiser on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 12:22am
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 12:37am
Sounds to me like Bernie is not comfortable with the new woke lingo and goals:
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/05/2023 - 11:08pm
Part of me says the "equality" is frequently quite wishful, that paying attention to the stats to measure outcomes and finding new ways to untilt the field as needed will be an ongoing process.But that untilting the field means the white trailer trash mother and kids get a hand, Kanye's kids don't need more, and hard work such as in Asian families frequently shouldn't be punished. But there are also natural benefits from living in Silicon Valley if you're in tech, LA if you're in film, NY if you're in finance. Trying to fix all the world's disequilibria is madness. Why was Ari Onassis able to hitch a ride to Buenos Aires, arrive with $5, yet end up a billionaire? Why don't we teach *that* lesson more? Was it his "white male privilege"? Why isn't Greece auperwealtgy then?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 8:22am
Personally I think 'law and order' had more to do with the below (espec.because that is what NY GOP candidates were clearly stressing) BUT THIS TOO
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 6:24pm
thread of responses:
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/07/2023 - 1:29am
The Secret Joke at the Heart of the Harvard Affirmative-Action Case
A federal official wrote a parody of Harvard’s attitude toward Asian Americans and shared it with the dean of admissions. Why did a judge try to hide that from the public?
March 23
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/24/2023 - 6:51pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/30/2023 - 2:03pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/30/2023 - 10:50pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/31/2023 - 12:44am
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/02/2023 - 11:26am
hijacking thread for a moment, but related to above map, excellent point from an outsider about how political partisan Americans delude themselves with their spin:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/02/2023 - 12:05pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/02/2023 - 12:43pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/05/2023 - 9:08pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/05/2023 - 9:14pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/05/2023 - 11:58pm
An extra 5% Asian - near 30% - plus 10% "2 or more" can drop those white numbers.
But I also recall places where Blacks "only" had 20% or so, despite making up 12-13% of the population, and that caused some scandal.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 04/06/2023 - 5:40am
posted without comment
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/18/2023 - 6:52pm
I feel i should unnerstand somehow
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 04/19/2023 - 9:53am
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by artappraiser on Thu, 04/20/2023 - 1:35am
Full article
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-18/higher-education-i...
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 04/20/2023 - 2:47am
I used to think all the wealthy black athletes would leave lots of opportunity for new generations, but I'm starting to think there are some data points I didn't consider.
[and has little to do with sexuality, and more to do with "too much time & money on their hands"]
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/04/2023 - 10:25am
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/06/2023 - 12:48am
Voters did this:
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/06/2023 - 1:00am
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 1:26pm
Nobody in the whole ducking history of the universe had time for this much bullshit. If they're not killing you or enslaving you, that's 2/3 of the way there.
People are largely shits. So short of Jesus coming back to straighten it all out (notice he didn't do it the 1st time), just expect it's a bit more than parting the sea. Settle for the improvements, and stop all your bitching, you perfectionists.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 2:48pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 8:13pm
Reflections on ‘Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby’
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/25/2023 - 9:31am
Don't have to agree 100% to see this as a very intriguing point:
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/25/2023 - 10:21am
Oh Jesus fuck me - a church is a once a week free club you don't have to prep for.
A college is a paid commitment to dozens of hours a week.
Compare Church with Game of Thrones, except you can watch it at home and not so many seasons, but still, it's about the same time and money commitment as church, and it's a topic to socialize around.
And then there's going to the gym or fitness, where you actually have to out in some work to get whatever results you think you want. Do you want a community college bod, a college bod, an elite university bod? You gotta work and pay. Not like Harvard, but there's till "no pain, no gain".
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/25/2023 - 3:03pm
NYC has stupid rules about what banks have to do to get the opportunity to handle the public's money:
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/25/2023 - 5:55pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/26/2023 - 1:43am
Not enough activists and social workers - how can they function in 2023?
Good to see NY becoming California - beachware soon.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/26/2023 - 1:50am
LOL!
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/11/2023 - 3:35am
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/19/2023 - 3:55pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/27/2023 - 12:37pm
The internet boom is coming to a 2nd end, but might have been nice for affirmative action to target those with computer and math skills back when it was a game changer. But identity politics will live on.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/27/2023 - 5:06pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 12:14pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 12:24pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 12:41pm
^ And I think: too bad Annette Gordon-Reed isn't on the Supreme Court
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 12:43pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 2:18pm
Better said, he updated his worldview to one where a large number of blacks are middle class and quite a few even upper class. Including obviously him and the upbringing his kids got.
Having Clarence Thomas on the take from billionaires and then lecturing about bias & racism is ugly. In a reasonable system he'd be out of a job for at least not reporting his influence money that he claims didn't influence maybe he's right - maybe he'd be a fucked no matter what, but it's still not right.
In the end I'll have to look and see if there was actually anything wrong with Harvard and UNC's affirmative action. But funny how the court consistently misses the chance to require North Carolina make voting equal for all.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 5:23pm
Huh? re: funny how the court consistently misses the chance to require North Carolina make voting equal for all.
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 4:39am
Alright, I missed the morning news.
Do note that Roberts is known to give a sop ruling while delivering a whole lot of other horrible. This year seems to be no exception.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 8:44am
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 4:17am
Former head of Obama Auto Task Force. Wall Street financier. Contributing Writer to NY Times Op-Ed. Morning Joe Economic Analyst
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 12:51pm
My Dad was quite tight on vacations and other expenses, saved up so plenty for college & more. The neighbors were always going different places, boating to Hawaii and such, don't think their 2 daughters had anything saved for college. Others on the block were largely community college, some in-state public university.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 6:09pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 12:53pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/10/2023 - 12:34am
He's ignoring the biggest divide, Trump vs Biden voters, and also agnori g that the preponderance of white population overrides the minority consideration.
Plus, the concept of an absolute ban on affirmative action ignores areas of need and conflates everything, which may be convincing for a 60-year-old black man looking at retirement, but a 22-year-old trying to get employment or gov services in say South Carolina or Tennessee (or Arizona - it's not just the south for sure) may encounter more structural issues at play in *some* fields. At a time when we're much more able to finely slice & dice data and determine causes for various phenomena, it seems naive and wrongheaded to take a class of remedial efforts off the table for an idealistic aspiration that isn't always held up in practice, sometimes with glaring prejudice among representatives who have the majority and are able to force unequal outcomes with a "my way or the highway" approach. It's a bit similar to my feeling about abortion - I'd like to solve it *more and more* hrough an earlier chemical treatment that avoids discussions and sometimes valid concerns about human good, but the more dogmatic will focus on supposed 9th month abortions and total bans on access and availability of actual clinics.
It pisses me off that this late in the game 1 particular ethnic category is more mired in poverty and crime/violence, and overall less education/literacy/etc. But a sweeping ruling that says "just treat them the same" doesn't look promising, and strategies for workable improvements remain dubious, though I suppose some that have been tried have the data to prove they help. It's a complex social issue. The "gun rights" advocates have made it worse, but that's not the only reason. Woke posturing has us going into a similar "just don't say anything with microagression and put in some more DIA/CRT slots so these honkies can get with the modern program" is often as distasteful and disruptive as these overreaching equality laws.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/10/2023 - 1:55am
Co-ed education at a heavy premium?
Prolly breaking down by ethnic groups would be useful as wellof course extortionate tuitions were bound to hurt someone.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/14/2023 - 1:50pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/14/2023 - 9:36pm
Yeah, I noted a while back that these Masters Divinity degrees weren't paying off as much as advertised
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/14/2023 - 10:09pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/17/2023 - 1:28am
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/24/2023 - 8:12pm
Poll in April of this year:
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/10/2023 - 9:16pm
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/11/2023 - 12:29pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/23/2023 - 12:43pm
"Why Won’t Elite Colleges Deploy the One Race-Neutral Way to Achieve Diversity?
Giving a leg up to poor students of all races would diversify elite schools. Officials would rather do anything else."
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/15/2023 - 8:59pm