It used to piss me off that my office had take your daughter to work day and everyone go to bring their daughters and the company would bring in speakers and buy lunch for them but my sons were not welcome. It wasn't that they wanted to help kids it was a misguided thought process where instead of helping all the kids they felt they could level the playing field by helping one group of kids only. None of that rising tides lifts all ship BS for them. When I complained my to female boss who had no qualifications for her job and who didn't even really understand what we did explained to me that is was because females were so disadvantaged they needed extra help. I guess that is true since she was chosen over two qualified men for the job because none of labs had female managers and HR said we had to hire a female. And no I am not just being bitter we were told that they wanted a female and when they couldn't find a qualified female with the proper technical background they hired one without it.
One of the guys I work with now was talking about how wonderful it was that Notre Dame was giving his a son scholarship because they wanted to increase their diversity on campus, he his son is black. Now this guy is an engineering manager who brings in six figures and his wife is a RN but giving him finical aid that wouldn't be offered to a poor white kids is seen as social justice. I had to bite my tongue and walk away. I wish I could afford to send my son to Notre Dame but he had to join the marines and man a machine gun mounted on a fuel truck in Iraq to afford his education. I guess that is simply what he gets for be one of the hated straight white males and not being as rich as white people are supposed to be.
One of the guys I work with now was talking about how wonderful it was that Notre Dame was giving his a son scholarship because they wanted to increase their diversity on campus, he his son is black. Now this guy is an engineering manager who brings in six figures and his wife is a RN but giving him finical aid that wouldn't be offered to a poor white kids is seen as social justice. I had to bite my tongue and walk away. I wish I could afford to send my son to Notre Dame but he had to join the marines and man a machine gun mounted on a fuel truck in Iraq to afford his education. I guess that is simply what he gets for be one of the hated straight white males and not being as rich as white people are supposed to be.
A fine example of the fuzzy logic of the left
- 25/08/2011 06:30:36 PM
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Personally I still favor demographic blind subsidies as the best route to meritocracy.
- 25/08/2011 08:18:20 PM
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it works for gender as well
- 25/08/2011 09:02:58 PM
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Preferential in possible scholarships but not admissions process according to the article
- 25/08/2011 10:26:25 PM
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There are colleges that don't allow homosexuals - or men, or women for that matter.
- 25/08/2011 10:35:05 PM
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Ummm, did you read the article?
- 25/08/2011 08:40:46 PM
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Ah, but you are not reading it either
- 25/08/2011 08:53:39 PM
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But that's just a scholarship.
- 25/08/2011 09:34:23 PM
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so you would OK if the only offered it to straight students? *NM*
- 25/08/2011 09:50:44 PM
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You do realize that there are indeed universities refusing admission to gay students?
- 25/08/2011 10:02:41 PM
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I would have no problem with a LGBT only school as long as it didn't take state money
- 25/08/2011 10:27:48 PM
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This is a private university, not a state university *NM*
- 25/08/2011 10:29:15 PM
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sorry that ended with NM. Were you trying to make a point if so I missed it *NM*
- 25/08/2011 10:40:48 PM
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I expect some donor created a scholarship with that stipulation.
- 25/08/2011 10:40:09 PM
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I know my reply to his message may have made in seem that I was objecting to the scholarship
- 25/08/2011 11:10:33 PM
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If you're talking about "affirmative action", then yes, I oppose that.
- 26/08/2011 09:19:33 AM
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I don't really have a problem with this
- 25/08/2011 09:03:55 PM
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I am not arguing that they shouldn't be allowed to do it
- 25/08/2011 09:29:54 PM
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Fair Enough
- 25/08/2011 09:41:25 PM
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The United Church of Christ is a rather liberal denomination - celebrating gay marriages, notably.
- 25/08/2011 10:06:26 PM
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their stated motive was to increase diversity
- 25/08/2011 10:09:17 PM
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well. It could be they just needed a reason, but for some reason couldn't be forthright?
- 26/08/2011 03:28:52 AM
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One of your lines struck me.
- 25/08/2011 10:12:32 PM
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that happened in the US, we elected Bush as a result
- 25/08/2011 10:35:05 PM
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That's an interesting point...
- 25/08/2011 10:37:37 PM
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yes but but despite how much he was hated by the left the right saw him different
- 25/08/2011 11:32:19 PM
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Re: yes but but despite how much he was hated by the left the right saw him different
- 26/08/2011 09:57:13 PM
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Re: that happened in the US, we elected Bush as a result
- 25/08/2011 10:55:29 PM
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I don't think most people believed Obama was a centrist so much as the anti-Bush
- 26/08/2011 12:40:43 AM
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I think you'll find very few Europeans agreeing with that assessment.
- 26/08/2011 10:18:19 PM
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Wow what a strawman
- 25/08/2011 10:23:45 PM
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- 25/08/2011 10:23:45 PM
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yes to bad none of that address the point I was making which would make your argument a strawman
- 25/08/2011 10:40:01 PM
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No I do not believe they are needed, nor do I believe they should be desired
- 25/08/2011 10:47:51 PM
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Ridiculous. Everyone knows conservatives are incapable of creativity.
- 25/08/2011 11:12:10 PM
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- 25/08/2011 11:12:10 PM
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I would definetly check "yes"
- 26/08/2011 12:11:29 AM
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but if they wanted to increase diversity they would offer yo a scholarship for being Muslim
- 26/08/2011 12:46:46 AM
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- 26/08/2011 12:46:46 AM
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id be a gay muslim, so Id be 3 minorities, a woman, a muslim and a lesbian, now if only I was black!
- 26/08/2011 02:16:50 AM
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I think it's less a failing of the "left"...
- 26/08/2011 03:25:42 AM
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a question for you...
- 26/08/2011 08:08:10 PM
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I guess my question for you is how I made it sound like LGBT=liberal
- 26/08/2011 09:47:16 PM
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My guess is because you referenced "the lefts" fuzzy logic in a thread about a LGBT scholarship.
- 26/08/2011 11:07:32 PM
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