She seems like a horrible woman. |
Is that not a direct quote from Trump about HRC?! Thanks for making my point for me. |
DEI does not mean that less-able people get a college spot/job/etc. over more-qualified candidates. It means that institutions take an extra moment to seek and/or identify highly-able candidates from populations that aren't white and rich. Have there been institutions that got it wrong? Yes. Have there been accusations that institutions got it wrong? Yes (accusations are unproven). But that's true of any hiring, of course! How many white men got where they are because they are white and male? That's the point of DEI - looking for capability. We live in a ridiculous society that wants to believe everyone not male and white is less able and only in their position because of an imaginary DEI bogeyman. This is why so many people want to encourage DEI in our schools and workplaces - because when it's done right it means the best and most capable are where they belong. |
DEI is almost never done right, It goes from being additive to the mission to becoming the mission. It's bad enough when you are asked how you would use DEI to enhance your classroom as a professor, it is bonkers when you are asked how you will use your role as a professor to enhance DEI Another problem is that people have conflated DEI with affirmative action, racial preferences, even extreme racial preferences. A lot of the reason we even have a second trump presidency is because virtue signalling idiots invited this massive blowback with the woke crap. |
He was summa from Ohio State. Do you know what his LSAT score was? |
If his writing is any indication, he has a strong grasp of language. His book claimed he was good at math. More than you can say about many lawyers (and least county lawyers!) |
His book is a best seller for a reason. You have to read it to really understand who J.D.is and where he came from. He is the epitome of someone who worked hard. Here is a passage:
And this was it. We had nothing now. My mom had disappeared again, and it was just Mamaw and me, near starving. But I was determined to make a choice about my future — not just sit here and die. So I took the one rifle we had off the rack and searched the drawers for ammo. One bullet was all I could find. “What is it, J.D.?” Mamaw asked as she sat in her rocking chair. “We’re going to eat tonight,” I told her, keeping back my tears. So I went out onto our barren land, hoping to find something — anything — to keep us going. And there it was. A lone rabbit sitting in a field. So I took that rifle and aimed, lining up what was the literally the last shot for me and my family. And I fired.” He literally ate what he could catch. |
We do not need a treatise. Make your point. |
People are allowed to post excerpts to provoke thought and add a different angle. People are allowed to ask questions. What else is this forum for?
My point is that JD is an interesting guy who knows the game. He might even be playing the long game. Maybe the opposition should make nice and make peace. With him. Find a way to still get what you want. The Dem’s collective dementia messed this country up big time — for a long while. Their last three presidential candidates were awful. |
Do we really want to light this candle?
If JD Vance shouldn’t have gotten into Yale, a whole lot of other students - of certain races and certain backgrounds - also shouldn’t be there. Gee do we need to complain about the Obamas at Harvard too? Should we ask Michelle Obama for the test scores that got her into Princeton? |
But Obama wasn't the one complaining about DEI, was he. Also, I find Clarence Thomas to be the biggest hypocrite about DEI. Does the dude not realize that he wouldn't be where he's at without "equal opportunity" or DEI? |
If you look at Supreme Court case, economic diversity is OK and on solid ground for higher education sorting and selection purposes.
I think JD is in favor of helping the poor (at least some poor. That’s legal too and validated by SCOTUS |
Since when? That's hilarious. |
Come again? How would we go about verifying your claims, since they are "verifiable?" |
Really!I think I’m white now! I’ll go tell my kids. Y’all know these are social constructs right? We make the rules. |