Anonymous wrote:Were you aware he is in an interracial marriage and his children are BIPOCs ?

Lol, not sure who you’re addressing as “you”, but as a DP, there’s no indication that Vance views his children as BIPOCs, or, for that matter, views himself as being in an interracial marriage. He certainly hasn’t actively spoken out about racist comments flung his wife’s way.

Usha was a Yale College undergrad— who taught JD how to pass for middle class while they both attended YLS. I admittedly only skimmed his book, so I’d appreciate corrections form those of you who read it more carefully, but I don’t remember JD mentioning Usha’s ethnicity or race at all. He certainly didn’t use “woke” terms like “BIPOC” about his family.

He is a naturally charming person. I met him for 6O second in an elevator at the National Book Fair. It felt a lot longer. He came across as humble and approachable to me.

I am not sure about this particular thread topic. What I can say is that I saw was a winning personality and “open communicator”
in a small space where he could have easily ignored me. Some people have that confidence. I saw it.

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Anonymous wrote:Veteran preference is also DEI. He got that too. Hypocrite.

Service to your country is not DEI. If anything that is earning your way.

Perhaps you don’t understand what “diversity “ means when it comes to a private university assembling a law school class.
People with military backgrounds are rare at YLS. While no one would have regarded someone with military service as having “earned” a spot, Yale admissions would have valued someone with Vance’s background as having experiences and outlooks that were rare in his class, and would have viewed that as adding “diversity” to his class. In addition, historically, the culture of Yale was supportive of students from underrepresented communities returning to those communities with their advocacy skills, among other things.

Anonymous wrote:I assume JD Vance had a high GPA in undergrad, which is likely why Yale accepted him plus veterans preference, which is DEI.

Most —if not all — students at YLS have high GPAs and excellent test scores. As others have said, being from an underrepresented state and military service are what helped him slither in over other equally qualified prospective students.
So, yeah, he was a DEI admit.

Anonymous wrote:Were you aware he is in an interracial marriage and his children are BIPOCs ?

Of course I am. I don’t think JDEI-Beneficiary Vance is aware. Sad.

Anonymous wrote:Were you aware he is in an interracial marriage and his children are BIPOCs ?

Indian=white

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Anonymous wrote:Veteran preference is also DEI. He got that too. Hypocrite.

Service to your country is not DEI. If anything that is earning your way.

+1

Well whatever it is, vets make up 30% of the federal government and are not being protected by cuts from DOGE.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/14/1000-va-employees-lose-jobs-federal-worker-purge.html

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/07/unemployment-rate-veterans-spiked-more-percentage-point-42-january.html

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/03/national-security-veterans-risk-trump-effort-reshape-federal-workforce-experts-warn.html

Why would they be? POTUS considers them losers.

Anonymous wrote:Were you aware he is in an interracial marriage and his children are BIPOCs ?

I guess they had that in common - Just a couple of DEI kids that didn’t deserve to be there and got in only on various preferences. Or are you saying *these* DEI admits were also the most meritorious? How can you be sure?

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Anonymous wrote:Most Ivy League schools want students from all fifty states. If we’re getting rid of “diversity” and base decisions exclusively on “merit” (whatever that is), then most Ivy students will be from blue states — CA, NY, NJ, MA. Do you MAGAs believe that geographical diversity is also something that should be abolished? If not, why not?

Most New England residents live in a "white" bubble.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Veteran preference is also DEI. He got that too. Hypocrite.

Service to your country is not DEI. If anything that is earning your way.

+1

Well whatever it is, vets make up 30% of the federal government and are not being protected by cuts from DOGE.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/14/1000-va-employees-lose-jobs-federal-worker-purge.html

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/07/unemployment-rate-veterans-spiked-more-percentage-point-42-january.html

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/03/national-security-veterans-risk-trump-effort-reshape-federal-workforce-experts-warn.html

Anonymous wrote:Most Ivy League schools want students from all fifty states. If we’re getting rid of “diversity” and base decisions exclusively on “merit” (whatever that is), then most Ivy students will be from blue states — CA, NY, NJ, MA. Do you MAGAs believe that geographical diversity is also something that should be abolished? If not, why not?

Most New England residents live in a "white" bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:Veteran preference is also DEI. He got that too. Hypocrite.

Service to your country is not DEI. If anything that is earning your way.

+1

Were you aware he is in an interracial marriage and his children are BIPOCs ?

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Anonymous wrote:Veteran preference is also DEI. He got that too. Hypocrite.

Service to your country is not DEI. If anything that is earning your way.

Again, this shows how much you do not know, embarrassingly so. Are you aware that veterans are being disproportionately affected by the Trump layoffs? If not, that’s because the private sector doesn’t hire vets at the same rate as the Feds do. DH ran a government agency. They spent a lot of time on vet recruitment. Colleges also place an emphasis on recruiting vets as students - they provide a perspective they would like in the classroom.

+1. When I was last on the hunt, vets were the ONLY people getting hired. Didn’t matter how poorly suited for the job their actual skills were - the hiring preference was enough to torpedo everyone who didn’t have years of specialized experience matched precisely to the cert. Hiring managers had to start over and tailor their specs so precisely just to be able to interview candidates with relevant experience to the job. This was DEI. It sure as hell wasn’t merit.

Anonymous wrote:As a poor white rural boy. You think Yale would have accepted him otherwise?

A lot of you white liberals were quite taken with him a few years ago. Not black folks. That populist hardscrabble shit doesn’t works for us. Drug-addled dysfunctional family narrative gets us labled ghetto trash.