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That’s beautiful. They‘re also your labor force.

Check with your own economists Richard Freeman & George Borjas. They can explain the perverse incentives to “teach” “students” by giving them “hands on experience.”

Just don’t let them organize: it might interfere w/ their study.
I will also point out that you deliberately kept @BarackObama’s own father from earning his PhD in economics by getting him sent home to Kenya on the down low. He may have been chasing white women. Which, BTW, was his perfect right as he was a student in good standing.
So maybe go easy on the sanctimony? Or give the man his degreee posthumously? Let’s face it. It’s not about what you say it is.

Know what I mean? Here:

politico.com/story/2011/04/…
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I respectfully **strongly** disagree. To many of us “Learning disabled” kids w/ lousy grades & crappy teacher recommendations they are our only lifeline. True, we may struggle with them as well. But sometimes one can show a C-average student in the >95% percentile on such a test.
This allows a truly marginalized community (those of us w/ significant learning differences) with *no political presence* at all and which is shat upon w/ impunity by almost all educators that the problem is actually “Teaching Disabilities” which show up as terrible evaluations.
How do you explain a student getting C’s w 1400 on an SAT? Those tests w/ all their flaws have been the lifeline of people like me. Without them we have no way of pointing to the problem as being our teachers.

If those tests didn’t exist, you would not be following this account.
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That’s Eric with a “C”, middle initial R, Last name W-E-I-N-S-T-E-I-N.

And, to save you authoritarians the time, you can put me down for opposing ANY future racist movement that bigotedly assumes that merit standards should be relaxed because PoC can’t meet our high standards.
If you have a database of enemies you should put my level of opposition to you racists, your anti-black racism and your authoritarian bigotry as “extreme and implacable”.

Anytime you want to grow up and do the work to get more black and PoC leveled up into STEM, do let me know.
In the meantime search Google on the “soft bigotry of low expectations”. And then see if you can find a mirror lying around the house. Because the racist you are fighting is the man in your mirror.

Be well.
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Oh, I’ll take a crack at it.

A) Heads of Newsrooms/Liberal magazines hired young hip kids to get clicks.

B) Those kids terrorized everyone else outside of the media liberals who hired them & held immunity no one else had.

C) Those kids are now turning on those who hired them.
This is in someways analogous to the dim people who raise Lions, Tigers & Bears from cubs and convince themselves they have a unique bond which protects them (and only them).

So the confusing thing is looking in from outside. Media liberals just lost the illusions of protection.
In other words: media professionals are now being hunted like every other group in society. It’s like a suddenly loss of indulgence, police protection or diplomatic immunity.

The folks used to flying private in the skies of the commentariat are now crossing the country by bus.
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