jerryskids

Weepaws is on a Revelation kick lately. Is the world ending next week? If so, I'll drink up my good bourbon. Hate to see it go to waste.

Also, the black girl is way cuter than Caitlin.

You might want to check his social media feeds. Just sayin...

Let's put the big oaf on Doncic on the perimeter when Dallas needs a three. Brilliant!

I'm scratching my head at what "other" is. Mixed? I know people who are half black/half hispanic; it's quite common in the southwest. If they were half minority/half white, I would expect them to declare as the minority.

Probably not, but I'm not quite ready to call it a change that would have minimal effect. I would have to work through the numbers, which I'm disinclined to do going into a holiday weekend.

In the chart in the article in the OP, blacks went from 22 to 25 (it seems on the graph, just shorter than the 26 next to it from the prior year) for the period 2019-22. That's a 13% increase. Not terribly large, but still an increase. The biggest increase was Hispanic, followed by Other. Asians were by far the biggest decrease, followed by whites.

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Get into UCLA medical school, yes.

Agreed.

I agree with you that the problem is in primary schools, not med school applications. At that point the ship has sailed. The rest of this post is a great example of why we'll never fix the problem. I haven't seen a single person here say "blacks can't be doctors." That is you viewing this topic as "it's blatantly racist." So we can never discuss the problem. I presume that you and Lucero would get along swimmingly; she seems to have the same sad racism goggles.

To clarify: do you think the purpose of the Free Beacon article is total racism? Or CDub's posting it? Or both?

Article about how he keeps his hands off women in photos: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/people-have-noticed-that-keanu-reeves-respectfully-does-not-touch-women-in-photos/

Not in the matrix you live in, anyway.

You also used it to claim "the purpose of such articles is blatant racism." I'm sure your DEI op ed woman thinks so, but I think that is disingenuous from you.

True. I'd say a few things though. One, there were so many quotes, it's hard to believe they were all made up. Two, it is completely understandable why the people being quoted would want to remain anonymous, particularly given the alleged aggressive behavior of Lucero and the lack to date of the school to do anything about the situation, despite multiple reports. My concern with the article, and I mentioned it before, is that you have to get to the very end to see "oh BTW, they also significantly wokified the curriculum at the same time." That leaves me wondering how much of the issue to attribute to each factor.

Fair enough. Some schools will struggle with this model though, and "demand" is a dangerous word in negotiation. If they could have "demanded" more they would have already.

You are the person who drives by and gives summaries like a tween from Tumblr. I thought about this this morning: I'm trying to provide content for discussion, sometimes complex and challenging. What is the last thread you started here to contribute to this place?

The last point is silly; it was clearly malicious. Otherwise the doxxer would just say he didn't live in KC. I figured you might go with the "it's public" defense. I think that that is technically true of a lot of doxxing info. But when a fanatic sees that info, it gives them an idea. After all, how many Harrison Butkers do you think there are in a city of 100,000?

My concern is that we may see the slippery slope of diminishing standards like we have in areas like emergency responders.

There is nothing "scientific" about Scientific American anymore. It has become a woke political activist magazine, as your article corroborates. In fact that op-ed would make the most progressive Leftie publication proud. Here is the bio on the article you linked, from the bottom of the article: ABBY L. FERBER is Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She also directs the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion and the annual Knapsack Institute Knapsack Institute: Transforming Teaching and Learning. Here is discussion on Scientific American becoming woke, from a long-time writer there: https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/scientific-american-goes-woke It's long, but interesting.

Again I'll ask if you read the article.

dox /däks/ verb INFORMAL search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the internet, typically with malicious intent. Do you not consider it doxxing because he had the info and didn't need to search for it? Because everything but the first 3 words is certainly true.

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