💡At an invited speech for a Cornell law students group, I was asked if I'd be ok with banning "affirmative action" resulting in 50% of ⬇️ in black enrollment. My response: "Are you insinuating black students can't get ahead w/o preferences?" 🙊 @LegInsurrection@ConceptualJames
2)Just to throw out some relevant info. on affirmative (racial) action (preferences). The very woke #NYT ran an editorial on 08/24/17 w. this title-“Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago.” @FreeBlckThought
@FreeBlckThought 3)40%+ of black students at overrated Ivies are from African/Caribbean immigrant or hybrid families. While URM applicants from well-off families benefit, poor Asian and white kids get the shaft. The whole system downgrades. K-12 pipeline issues are unaddressed. @ConceptualJames
4)One insidious part of redistributing based on race is that it divides, distracts and never helps. Among 71 countries surveyed in 2015, the U.S. ranked 38th in math, 25th in science and 24th in reading literacy. 70% of the public rate our STEM as poor. WHO ARE WE KIDDING?
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1/ Pondering my exact place on the oppressor-oppressed spectrum and getting seriously confused. Is it just me or we all feel shades of gray, that the vast majority fall btw? Really enjoyed reading Das Kapital as a theoretical masterpiece, and just that. @HPluckrose@realchrisrufo
2/ Marx built his theories against the historical backdrop of industrial revolution. It didn’t help my homeland but served as a guide to paint dissidents as capitalists. Just saying.🤐 @ConceptualJames@TeacherMeyers
3/ back to my “soul-searching”: Grew up in late Red China w. a single parent, worked below min. wage to support my education, married to an obvious “oppressor”, have a comfortable “middle-class” life now thanks to God, family and hardwork. So where should I be? @CalEthStudies