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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is absolutely no reason anyone should ever go to Dickenson.  Ever.
https://thedickinsonian.com/opinion/2019/02/07/should-white-boys-still-be-allowed-to-talk/[/quote]

TBH, this is very well written.  Impressive, even if I disagree with the argument. [/quote]

Disagree, especially given that the author attended one the most elite, expensive high schools in the US for k-12 then a highly selective college.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leda-fisher-3b6b3017a/

It's full of ad hominem attacks, generalizations, stereotypes and mocking.  Can anyone picture an essay in actual print that criticizes the discussion style of those "Wangs, Xius and Lins" ? Or "Mohammeds Abduls and Farrouks"?  How long would a writer keep their job if they said they were sick of listening to the opinions "Shantays, Tiaras and Mo'niques" ?   I

t's just a lazy, mean style.  I "get" the oppression imbalance and why one demographic gets an endless, never-ending  free pass to take pot shots at their classmates.  That is not actually good writing. [/quote]

You again? I really don't think you read (or comprehended) the article. These extrapolations just don't fit the circumstance or the nuance of the writing.[/quote]

That was my first post.  There is no nuance in that essay. At all.   I happen to agree with what I think must be her larger point, but it's a shoddy piece of prose.

It's a lazy style of opinion writing so common in the Twitter generation[/quote]

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