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their stated motive was to increase diversity random thoughts Send a noteboard - 25/08/2011 10:09:17 PM
That was sort of the point I was making not that they shouldn't be allowed to do it. If they were taking actions to make LGBT feel safer on the campus or to make sure there was no discrimination taking place in the class room I wouldn't have mentioned. If they had just flat out said it was a scholarship for LGBT students I would never have mentioned it, it was the diversity label I object to. It is like saying "it is for the kids" and you can't be against it unless you hate kids. As I said I think is an example of the fuzzy logic often used by the left. Is this honestly an unrepresented group? I can't prove it but I find it highly doubtful. Assuming that I am right, and I typically do, then what they are doing is picking a group to offer aid to not based on actual need but biased on warm fuzzy. I wasn't implying that their motives were nefarious but either they really don't understand what the word diversity means or they were simply trying to help a group they liked regardless of actual need and slapping and big smiley face diversity sticker on it.
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A fine example of the fuzzy logic of the left - 25/08/2011 06:30:36 PM 960 Views
Personally I still favor demographic blind subsidies as the best route to meritocracy. - 25/08/2011 08:18:20 PM 548 Views
it works for gender as well - 25/08/2011 09:02:58 PM 560 Views
Sure; insert your demographic here. - 26/08/2011 12:51:48 AM 609 Views
Preferential in possible scholarships but not admissions process according to the article - 25/08/2011 10:26:25 PM 460 Views
What's your point? - 26/08/2011 12:54:41 AM 443 Views
There are colleges that don't allow homosexuals - or men, or women for that matter. - 25/08/2011 10:35:05 PM 551 Views
Alright then, socially unacceptable. - 26/08/2011 01:00:16 AM 582 Views
Ummm, did you read the article? - 25/08/2011 08:40:46 PM 606 Views
Ah, but you are not reading it either - 25/08/2011 08:53:39 PM 630 Views
But that's just a scholarship. - 25/08/2011 09:34:23 PM 589 Views
it is a scholarship program not a admissions program - 25/08/2011 09:12:47 PM 572 Views
I don't really have a problem with this - 25/08/2011 09:03:55 PM 646 Views
I am not arguing that they shouldn't be allowed to do it - 25/08/2011 09:29:54 PM 474 Views
Fair Enough - 25/08/2011 09:41:25 PM 516 Views
their stated motive was to increase diversity - 25/08/2011 10:09:17 PM 645 Views
One of your lines struck me. - 25/08/2011 10:12:32 PM 616 Views
that happened in the US, we elected Bush as a result - 25/08/2011 10:35:05 PM 463 Views
That's an interesting point... - 25/08/2011 10:37:37 PM 545 Views
Re: that happened in the US, we elected Bush as a result - 25/08/2011 10:55:29 PM 565 Views
It's also worth noting ... - 25/08/2011 11:00:35 PM 448 Views
Wow what a strawman - 25/08/2011 10:23:45 PM 635 Views
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 423 Views
No I do not believe they are needed, nor do I believe they should be desired - 25/08/2011 10:47:51 PM 614 Views
so you don't disagree with me or you do? - 25/08/2011 11:47:05 PM 561 Views
Ridiculous. Everyone knows conservatives are incapable of creativity. - 25/08/2011 11:12:10 PM 438 Views
are they going to make students prove they are GLBT? - 25/08/2011 11:36:58 PM 506 Views
I think it's less a failing of the "left"... - 26/08/2011 03:25:42 AM 562 Views
I agree there is a lot of fuzzy logic on the right as well - 26/08/2011 02:41:03 PM 503 Views
*nod* I don't deny that it's a problem - 26/08/2011 04:26:56 PM 616 Views
a question for you... - 26/08/2011 08:08:10 PM 657 Views

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