No. Evidence < Proof.
None of it should matter, sadly though, it matters, and it matters a lot. And it matters in a way that is far from color blind. Are you willng to break down a system of privilege that was built up over centuries and replace it with a pure meritocracy? Think very well before you say something because it would make for an entirely different society than the one you are used to if you say yes.
Congratulations America
Privilege isn't just the preserve of one race, or all of one race specifically.
Who is more "privileged" when it comes to education? Obama's children, or the child of a trailer park redneck where nobody in the family has ever been to college?
I would support terminating support for "legacies" Loki. A "legacy" should already have enough support at home to encourage them to be able to reach the entry requirements on their own merits. If anyone needs support it is those who come from a family where nobody has ever been to college, not "legacies".
Yeah Randy, all lives matter. Your racist credentials are impeccable.
Congratulations America
Hope is the denial of reality
I'm sorry, I meant "shoot", the autocorrect on my phone isn't really adapted to discussions about the US.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
But if they're black, it's "understandable" because racism.
Hope is the denial of reality
Either you are in favor of racial discrimination or not. Obviously people's childhood and the values they are taught will impact their future success. However the government solution exacerbates the problem and creates the welfare state which has crippled the black community. Government is here to help are scary words indeed.
And you are. You love discrimination. Because that's literally all that profiling does. It doesn't look at the individual, it only looks at their skin color and alters reaction and treatment of people from first sighting to the very end of interaction according to their phenotype.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white
"In the United States, acting white is a pejorative term, usually applied to African Americans, which refers to a person's perceived betrayal of their culture by assuming the social expectations of white society.[1][2] Success in education in particular (depending on one's cultural background) can be seen as a form of "selling out" by being disloyal to one's culture.[2]"
I thought you valued education Loki?
That's not what was said. The actual quote was we are sick of "so-called experts who consistently get it wrong". If you are happy with those who consistently get it wrong being held up as infallible then good for you but I would not call you intellectual.
Intellectuals should challenge received wisdom and be sceptics not lap it up as some mystic pronouncement from an Oracle.
how about a black female teen when they are looking for a taller and heavily black man?
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Moved from Justine Diamond thread ...
You asked what an ex-gypsy would be. I said someone who would "get a house, get a job, send their children to school, that sort of thing". I never said people would have to be ex-gypsies, but that's what one would be.
I think allowing homeschooling is clearly the rhetorical equivalent of sending children to school. But since you have explicitly and repeatedly condemned extreme analogies suggesting any analogy must be viewed as the equivalent of what we were discussing . . . which is becoming a cannibal in your eyes? Getting a job or a house?
The other of getting a job or a house is in your eyes must presumably be equivalent to sacrificing a child every sunday?
If we were having a discussion about Autobahns and you were to say that building autobahn's is bad because the Nazi's did it then that would be a shitty argument.
That is like idiots who say vegetarians are bad because Hitler was one.
Since when were the fascists in favour of assimilation? Assimilation and fascism are polar opposites.
The fascists and other racists like America through most of its history and apartheid South Africa etc believed in racial purity and believed that "Jews and negroes" were unassimilable.
Believing that everyone regardless of race, origin etc is or could be the same is the opposite of fascism.