What made you go WTF today?

[Khendraja'aro]

No shit, Sherlock.

Unrelated: I just watched some reports on the BBC site about the "progress" of the Brazilian effort to get their stadiums built in time for the World Cup. Doesn't look too good.

Does not bode well for the Olympics either.

[Loki]

No shit, Sherlock.

Unrelated: I just watched some reports on the BBC site about the "progress" of the Brazilian effort to get their stadiums built in time for the World Cup. Doesn't look too good.

Does not bode well for the Olympics either.

Why is it so obvious? Most academics are pretty left wing. And yet even the most left-wing departments, including those populated predominantly by minorities, preferred dealing with white males over anyone else.

From random people who claim to be living in, or from Brazil, the delays are standard practice. People will start throwing money at the problem to get it done on time and it helps line the pockets of all the corrupt people that have been holding back Brazil on the world stage.

The problem is that there's simply no time to get this done on time. They thought it was business as usual, but they weren't used to projects of this scale.

[Khendraja'aro]

Why is it so obvious?

Of course it's obvious. Professors are human, just like everyone else. I'm not quite sure where they got that absurd notion from in the first place, that they would be immune to prejudice.

[Loki]

Of course it's obvious. Professors are human, just like everyone else. I'm not quite sure where they got that absurd notion from in the first place, that they would be immune to prejudice.

Kind of hard to reconcile implicit/explicit racism and sexism with many of these professor's research and normative goals.

[GGT]

Kind of hard to reconcile implicit/explicit racism and sexism with many of these professor's research and normative goals.

But you'll 'participate' for a year anyway, since it means a paycheck.

[GGT]

.... Most academics are pretty left wing. And yet even the most left-wing departments, including those populated predominantly by minorities, preferred dealing with white males over anyone else.

[Aimless]

Why is it so obvious? Most academics are pretty left wing. And yet even the most left-wing departments, including those populated predominantly by minorities, preferred dealing with white males over anyone else.

It's perfectly in line with the leftist religious delusion that discrimination is institutional, insidious and pervasive. They may in fact be doing this on purpose in order to garner support for such absurd leftist claims