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Should the admissions process be colorblind?
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Anonymous
| Do you have any details of the survey questionnaire and methodology? Otherwise, this sounds like more garbage. |
Anonymous
| Calling Jews who support Israel by their name (i.e, war criminals) is not being anti-semetic. AAs get accused of using the race card too often. Same goes for Jews. Only difference is that there is real racism against AAs. Jews, on the other hand, eally are war criminals. What isd going on in Palestine is nothing short of a crime against humanity. It is not antisemetic to call out Israel for their atrocoities. Every General Assembly memeber in the UN believes so except the US and Israel. Who cares what happened 70 years ago in Poland. It was tragic, and too bad. But, get over it. Bad stuff happens to people in history. AAs understand that too. Lets talk about what is going on today-- the oganized repression of an apoartheid system against a wholy innocent Arab population. Israel's treatment of Arab citizens as second class citizens based on a horrific racial classifiation is Nazi-lite. Instead of concentration camps and ghettos, there is a massive swath of occupied territoies where Israeli foces slowly strangle through economic sanctions. Whenevr they feel like, Isaeli SS units bomb their hospitals, religious establishments and schools as a form of collective punishment. Might as well start making them sow some patches on their clothes soon and break out the tatoos. Congats to Israel for learning so well from Germany. |
Anonymous
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"Negro" "Colored" and "Bastard" are all words considered disparaging. The word "Holocaust" isn't considered disparaging to those to whom it's applied. It's a "don't call me that" vs. "only we get to call our history that" distinction. I'm more inclined to honor the former than the latter, but YMMV
And just because Alan Dershowitz says something, that doesn't make it true. It's his opinion -- and yours. Good to know, and it may affect how/when I use the term holocaust (vs., say, genocide), but it doesn't convince me that someone else's use of the term to describe slavery was wrong. Re conversational dynamics. If a conversation over the use of the term holocaust prompts a pro-Palestinian post which you resent, then criticize the post you resent, rather than the first poster who used the term holocaust. |
Anonymous
| Yes admissions should be colorblind. But sometime in the course of the parent interview, the admissions person should refer to slavery as a kind of holocaust. |
Anonymous
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I went to HLS. Had the Dersh for crim law. He is a moron and celebrity wannabe. No academic respects anything he does. He represented OJ Simpson. What more do I have to say. Like some other members of this community, he will do anything for a few pieces of silver!
He has written not a single piece of espected academic literature on criminal law. One only needs to do a lexis search of him to see that he is rarely, if ever, cited by any court. The claim that only Jews have experienced a Holocaust is assinine. Slavery was one too and so is a nuclear war if one were ever to occurr --hence the expression "Nuclear Holocaust" Duuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
Anonymous
| pp -- I don't believe you went to HLS -- you can't spell. |
Anonymous
| The LSAT doesn't have a spelling component. And I'm betting typing is the culprit in her case. Missing r, extra s, extra r, lotsa h's -- nothing to suggest spelling issues. |
Anonymous
And espected for accepted . . . . . |
Anonymous
| This is turning into a real Lincoln-Douglas debate. Could you both just give it a rest? |
Anonymous
That's the missing r -- "respected" |
Anonymous
| This debate has really degenerated. Can't we get back to the topic? If someone wants to start a topic as to how Jewish people have been discriminated against -- that's great. But, that's not the topic of this thread. |
Anonymous
What's the excuse for this line? |
Anonymous
The holocaust and slavery happend a long time ago! Hwhy don't you guys just get over it! |
Anonymous
I agree about degeneration but wonder whether there's more to be said on the original topic on this point and in this context. Seems like the lines are pretty well drawn. Most people cluster around an answer that says no (or certainly not until other preferences that benefit the historically privileged are eliminated). One or more posters think "everybody loses" when admissions aren't colorblind. People disagree in their assessements of how school demographics would change if admissions became colorblind. And some think that the whole question is kind of silly given the impossibility of colorblind (and/or of meritocratic) admissions at this age. |
Anonymous
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The holocaust and slavery happend a long time ago! Hwhy don't you guys just get over it!
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Perhaps we may get over it after you experience yours. |