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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]A  “lived experience” is how you’ve moved around in the world. For example, if you’re a white, straight, middle class male, your “lived experience” is likely one where you’ve enjoyed a multitude of privileges and very few road blocks such as discrimination. You’ve likely never been profiled in a store or stopped by the police simply because you’re walking down the street. The images and role models of success that have been in the media since you were born have mostly looked like you. [/b]

An “experience” is just that. It’s a one-time event. An example might be that you were mugged on the way home and it caused you to think differently about your life in a profound way. Or maybe you had the “experience” of volunteering in a homeless shelter and learned things about yourself.

No one is trying to “get around” the SCOTUS decision. If you’ve read it, you’d know that Roberts laid the groundwork for this approach. Colleges want a student body filled with diverse experiences, and there’s nothing illegal about soliciting information about its applicants as they build their next incoming class. [/quote]

That’s discriminatory. My kid is at an Ivy this year, 
But I seriously thought he should write the misconceptions people have when see a white, 6 foot, athletic blonde blue eyed male.

Must be a toxic male. Must be MAGA. Must have been given everything in life. Must have had no struggles. Must be racist.

Kind of like what the DEI officer from Hopkins emailed around as a definition of privilege in a derogatory manner.

What we perceive to be on looks alone…oh boy.[/quote]

Soo... no lived experiences then?

Can you discuss how you have overcome discrimination and oppression by our misogynist white supremacists society and how that experience has led you to commit your life to fighting against a "merit" based society[/quote]

^^^ see misconceptions and @ssholes

Looking at a kid you make assumptions. A kid that looks like this couldn’t have experienced tragedy. He couldn’t have come from a violent home with a single parent working two jobs.  He couldn’t have been bullied in school.  His family couldn’t have been eating government cheese. Just by being a white male, he is already hated by you.  You have no idea what he has done in his life. You have no idea if they lost a parent to suicide, lost the family home, are on scholarship, etc.

Go watch “I hate Christian Laetner”. People thought he was a rich prep school kid because he was a white good looking kid at Duke.  He came from a very working class family.

People think they are woke but they are even more quick to judgement and nasty.[/quote]

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