OT Jamelle Hill/ESPN

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  1. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Except MM--who started this thread--took issue with ESPN and their double-standard, not with her comments.

     
  2. MarAzul

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    I have been here for some time now, seen the change made and have seen how little difference it makes.
    I have done college recruiting. Offered several black kids jobs that they would not take. I could not offer those same jobs to white kids that would take them. So the system was warped in there favor but did it do any good?

    Same with college entry. How many black people will ever see their child graduate from HS as valedictorian with 4.0 average and then be turned down at the college of their choice for diversity reasons? None I feel sure is the answer. But yet here we are 30 years later and still bitching.

    I bet dviss went to college on time with his age group. I tried but had to give it up and join the Navy. I find that to have been a good thing, perhaps a privilege but he bitches.
    Dad got to live as an American for 21 years after immigrating here with his parents before it came to the end in the Pacific. I am proud of him but what was his privilege?

    When I hear that I should pay reparations, I would prefer skip that and go to the finale instead.
     
  3. H.C.

    H.C. Well-Known Member

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    I thought you said last month you'd start posting comments worth reading?
    Keep on doing you I guess.
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  4. MarAzul

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    Ha!
    You don't know how sorry I am, you do not find that comment helpful.
     
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    Schilling had a long history of comments deliberately insulting marginalized groups. He was repeatedly warned, then canned.

    Hill expressed an opinion about one uber privileged person.

    I mean, do we really need to keep repeating the same thing in words of one syllable?

    OK.
    Curt is white so right says he is OK.
    Hill is black so right says fire her.

    Words of one syllable.
     
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  6. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    So...your answer to why you don't think white privilege exists is that colleges place a premium on racial diversity. That is one very small aspect of life, but one you seem to place a massive weight one--presumably because you still hold a grudge against Stanford and blame diversity quotas for (I believe it was) your daughter not getting in.

    OK, sure. All other things being equal, blacks have privilege over whites when it comes to college application/acceptance. However, that's operating under the assumption that all other things are equal, which they're not. School curricula are generally geared toward white kids. Standardized testing is generally geared towards white kids. Subjective teacher evaluations of students are generally more favorable to white kids. In general, for a black kid to earn a 4.0 and become his/her school's valedictorian, it's easily arguable that said kid probably had to work harder to achieve that result than a white kid in a similar circumstance would/did. That is the impact of white privilege that you're unwilling/unable to acknowledge.
     
  7. MarAzul

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    If I acknowledge what the fuck ever you want me to acknowledge then what? What gets changed so that there is no bitch?
     
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    I have no personal stake in your acceptance or rejection of white privilege. I (fallaciously) thought you legitimately wanted a definition of what you viewed as an ambiguous term, so I was just trying to help you see a different perspective. If you're not interested in doing so, that's no skin off my nose.
     
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    I'll say it once again.
    Maybe this time you'll remember when I say.
    Unlike you I have no interest in placing blame on either political party.
    Nor does it change the fact that if Flint Michigan wasn't majority black, instead majority white. The water issue would've been fixed within weeks.
     
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    I've never been to college. I'm just intelligent.

    And yeah right. This is the first time you said your daughter was "valedictorian with a 4.0 average". You NEVER brought that up before so now I don't believe you. I don't think you're being honest.
     
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    He's not interested. We simply need to wait for his ideology to die out.
     
  12. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    I'm just going to say--that's not a fact; it's just speculation. Not unreasonable speculation, mind you, but definitely not a fact.
     
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    I just figured I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.

    You know, because he's white...
     
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  14. MarAzul

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    Well, I don't think any change you or I make will make a difference. The bitch goes on. Actually I would stack my record in helping black people during my life against anyone here.
    I might be the only one here that took a whole gang out of resteraunt that would not serve two of the members. Hired them. Promoted to management. But I am not about to eat shit.
     
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    Navy and gay has always gone hand in oar.



     
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    Do you actually keep a record of people you help by race?

    Interesting.
     
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    Ok.
     
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    A day or two ago a new poster said. 'I have more likes than posts'.
    Your comment right here deserves the same response.
    :roflmao:
     
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    Sure, hired two Chinese and a Korean too. The Russian jew turned out to be a downer though.
     
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    Im not. I think she should have been suspended or fired because previous employees were, for extremely similar actions. I tgink ESPN is wrong, and it's a double standard
     

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