re: UCLA students protest in because professor corrected black students grammar

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I would really like to hear the rationalization of why these students did the right thing from this board's resident liberals.

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I dont think this is a political issue. Poor grammar is poor grammar. You go to school to learn those types of things, so you should expect to be corrected.

I would say its more of a cultural thing - an idiotic cultural thing to think you can butcher the english language at an institution of higher learning and your profs should be ok with it because its your culture.

F-that. Go to a cultural school then.

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Uh, shouldn't that be "da man" instead of "the man?"

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Well, they're in a major university trying hard. So I figured I'd give them extra credik for something.

An example given was whether or not indigenous people should be capitalized. I'd say that's somehwat subjective and the use of capitals was intentional.

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I would really like to hear the rationalization of why these students did the right thing from this board's resident liberals.

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Come on, Russian.

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HailHailtoMichigan

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As Social justice warriors run out of meaningful things to make issues out of, you get crap like this. It will only get worse. "Progress" and "Change" have been turned into an ideologic industry that is always looking to further "change" and "progress".

To these morons, it is CHANGE that is the all important thing, rather than the actual, real-world content of the change. 60s envy is real, folks. Kids currently in college live in an America that is remarkably NOT in need of any major reform/protest movements, yet these young people want so much to carry the torch of hippies long dead.

Our idea of "reform" has gone from freedom rides throughout the south to register black people to vote, with the Ku Klux Klan and even many law enforcement authorities literally trying to inflict harm on us, to sitting in schoolrooms because a black student was corrected on his incorrect use of their/they're.

It's depressing to think about. We have gone from "I have a dream" to "gender specific bathrooms are gross discriminatory practices".

We have gone from a profound, sane recognition to prudent reform, to insanity from a grievance industry that is desperate to make ANYTHING an issue.

It's truly a spectacle, and many young people are infected with it.

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You and I don't agree on much, but this post is fan-fricking-tastic.

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I read somewhere that it was easier for a wealthy black student to get accepted to UCLA than for a very poor Asian student to get in.

"Too many" Asians already, I guess.

This shite is about as idiocracy as it gets.

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Where did you read that? As with all california state schools UCLA doesn't allow race to be considered in admissions. The number of black, non-athletes admitted is very small. Maybe only 3 or 4 percent.

When things like this are allowed, why would UCLA's actions be surprising;



Decline of Debate: The Sequel

Collegiate debate—the organized, full-contact version, not the dorm-room bull session—has long been the domain of earnest apple-polishers. The kind of strait-laced students who color inside the lines, do all their homework, and look down on the unwashed masses with their A-minus averages. But in recent years, this white-bread subculture has been embracing “diversity,” with predictable results.

At the Cross Examination Debate Association Championships in March, the final match featured two pairs of African-American debaters. Progress! The debate centered around a resolution asking whether or not the president’s war powers should be restricted. The contest was won by the duo from Towson State University, Ameena Ruffin and Korey Johnson, who chose to argue the side of .??.??. well .??.??. it’s hard to say. Here’s the Atlantic’s formulation: “Rather than address the resolution straight on, Ruffin and Johnson, along with other teams of African-Americans, attacked its premise. The more pressing issue, they argued, is how the U.S. government is at war with poor black communities.”

The Weekly Standard

If you think them going off script is bad, you should hear the actual debate; the women sound like they're hyperventilating the whole time and throw around the terms "N-word" and "whitey" like they're going out of style. It sounds to me like they're spouting pure nonsense but, I guess I'm just not open enough to diversity and too closed minded to fully appreciate their debating style.

Thanks for the link. Although technically not race based it does seem to be a work around.

When the article states that the black admission rate is 16%, does that mean that 16% of all students admitted are black or that 16% of all black applicants are admitted? And it shouldn't be "admitted" anyway. They should use "accepted" since many if not most black students that are accepted end up enrolling somewhere else.

California doesn't have affirmative action. Officially anyway.