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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a commentator on gawker who claimed to be a female minority student at Yale, who said the costume thing was the tipping point on top of a huge pile of other injustices and ineffective responses from yale's administration. She made it sound like there's a lot of frat boy culture there... Which should come as a shock to no one who has ever been inside of an investment bank.

While I sympathize with her grievances, my own attempts to discuss this with people from her generation have all been met with them calling me a racist white person. Who watches fox. All of this because I said the letter about owning responsibility for a Halloween costume was not a bad thing.

It is very, very hard to argue with hysterics on any side of an argument... But my takeaway here is complete disgust with the state of academia. It's not just Yale... My alma mater is full of hysteria about Halloween costumes and racial stereotypes right now too. And since they only have about a 7 per cent minority population... It's mostly a bunch of white rich kids falling all over themselves to apologize for being oppressors.[/quote]

Oh, the injustice of having to endure four years of higher education at one of the most selective (and the best, or at least I used to think) universities in the country!  Oh, the humanity! [b] I wonder if she's getting pretty much a free ride, to boot.[/b][/quote]

I wonder whether you would've wondered that, had she been white.[/quote]

(Different PP here) I'm guessing probably not, and it makes perfect sense. Why?

[b]Because our crazy affirmative action policies discriminate against even "at-risk" whites (say, born in a trailer to a meth mom)[/b] in order to give space to wealthy, entitled blacks (say, son of a millionaire executive).

So, if someone behaves like trash, and is black, chances are a free ride explains it. If someone behaves like trash, and is white, it's due to other reasons.[/quote]
"So, if someone behaves like trash, and is black, chances are a free ride explains it. If someone behaves like trash, and is white, it's due to other reasons." = [b]white privilege[/b][/quote]

"Because our crazy affirmative action policies discriminate against even "at-risk" whites (say, born in a trailer to a meth mom)"  = some "white privilege" !

So, to paraphrase a PP, are you working on your master's in Applied Grievance Studies at Mizzou or at Yale?    :lol: [/quote]

I believe the studies you're referring to are called American Privilege Studies these days.[/quote]

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