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.
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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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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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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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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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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