>> ^juliovega914:

Rider falls, breaks back, ends career in baseball, loses athletic scholarship, has to drop out of college, insurance doesn't cover injury cause it occurred at a university athletic event, athletic insurance doesn't cover injury because it occurred whilst goofing off. Out of college, 40k in debt to student loans, 120k in debt to medical bills, 160k total in debt with no career prospects.


I think you're a bit overstating it, but what you're saying is the exact reason you will NEVER see this kind of Awesome in the big leagues.

>> ^juliovega914:

Rider falls, breaks back, ends career in baseball, loses athletic scholarship, has to drop out of college, insurance doesn't cover injury cause it occurred at a university athletic event, athletic insurance doesn't cover injury because it occurred whilst goofing off. Out of college, 40k in debt to student loans, 120k in debt to medical bills, 160k total in debt with no career prospects.


Thus spake Sir Buzz Killington.

Rider falls, breaks back, ends career in baseball, loses athletic scholarship, has to drop out of college, insurance doesn't cover injury cause it occurred at a university athletic event, athletic insurance doesn't cover injury because it occurred whilst goofing off. Out of college, 40k in debt to student loans, 120k in debt to medical bills, 160k total in debt with no career prospects.

I agree with these two points.

I think the bottom income asian kid is an aberration, given that asians are at the top of the income ladder in california at least. Again, making asians one group distorts the issue. I think Hmong and Filipinos have different demographic profiles and discriminatory experiences than chinese and koreans, for instance.

I'm not really interested in mainstream opinion; I'm interested in fairness and justice. That means in addition to your two above points, I consider the historical and current context of all of this, outside of the matriculation of a single individual.

No easy answers.


>> ^chilaxe:
@<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since April 8th, 2009" href="http://videosift.com/member/longde">longde
I think we'll probably agree that if the issue is leveling the playing field by income, we should 1. remove legacy admissions, and 2. expand the already existing fee waivers and scholarships given to lower income individuals.
It doesn't seem like enlightenment thinking to advocate that the child from a disadvantaged, rock-bottom Asian American family receive an additional racist disadvantage because he has the "wrong" skin color.
Mainstream opinion is that academic performance measures like the SATs correlate with both future performance and past effort. I don't see the mechanism by which academic performance measures are discriminatory against some poor groups, but not against other poor groups.

@longde

I think we'll probably agree that if the issue is leveling the playing field by income, we should 1. remove legacy admissions, and 2. expand the already existing fee waivers and scholarships given to lower income individuals.

It doesn't seem like enlightenment thinking to advocate that the child from a disadvantaged, rock-bottom Asian American family receive an additional racist disadvantage because he has the "wrong" skin color.

Mainstream opinion is that academic performance measures like the SATs correlate with both future performance and past effort. I don't see the mechanism by which academic performance measures are discriminatory against some poor groups, but not against other poor groups.

Thank you! All in good fun.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
more comedy gold, goddammit!
In reply to this comment by quantumushroom:
All Asians should get preferential treatment and fully-paid scholarships...to driving schools!

more comedy gold, goddammit!
In reply to this comment by quantumushroom:
All Asians should get preferential treatment and fully-paid scholarships...to driving schools!

>> ^quantumushroo
m:

All Asians should get preferential treatment and fully-paid scholarships...to driving schools!



LOL! Racist.

All Asians should get preferential treatment and fully-paid scholarships...to driving schools!

So you marked "It's complicated" above, right?

They talked about a mix of public and private Universities in that article. Is your stance that anti-Asian discrimination in Univeristy of Pennsylvania is bad, but at Harvard it's okay?

>> ^blankfist
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I despise any public anything that discriminates. From scholarships to marriage, it's just bad because everyone is forced to pay for it and government shouldn't treat anyone differently.
Private is an entirely different thing.

I despise any public anything that discriminates. From scholarships to marriage, it's just bad because everyone is forced to pay for it and government shouldn't treat anyone differently.

Private is an entirely different thing.

>> ^quantumushroom:


Jobs bill? His Earness has spent 1 trillion and not made a dent in unemployment.
We need a Government GTFO Of The Way Bill.


Shit man, I asked you to comment so we could discuss the substance of the video.

No one cares about your contradictory, philosophical doctrinal rhetoric.

Obama is the fucking president. That's the executive branch of the government. He's like the top super boss of all the Police and Military.

Congress, The House & Senate, are the Legislative branch. They are responsible for proposing new bills that will become law.

You talk smack about "Libtards" or "Taxcrats" all the time

Tho when Crowley points out that Republicans [whom you love so dearly].. have done shit all to pass a bill which will:
1. protect businesses from imports
2. protect service jobs from outsourcing
3. establish a viable green sector industry producing solar panels or wind turbines for export

You don't say..

"Hey, Crowley makes a good point. I support these "Republican'ts" but they constantly sit on their hands. I'm tired of them."

or.

"Why can't these "Re-Pluto-cains" stop lining their pockets with tax cut bills and use there time to craft a bill that supports the individual worker & the individual American Dream!"

Answer. Not with "I hate government. Especially BLUE colored government" jibber jabber.

Answer like you're a single mother who has been unemployed for 99 weeks and now has to pay the remaining 20% of tuition costs that would have been covered by scholarship funds had they not been stolen by Republican Governors like Nathan Deal of Georgia.

Defend your Republican masters in their lack of pro-active legislation in putting American citizens back to work.

I'll have to check that out. Come to think of it, I have noticed that conservatives do sometimes tend to take obvious sarcasm, metaphor or irony literally. I hadn't noticed that as a trend before. Weird.

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
i just watched waiting for armageddon.......

1. i now understand where the sudden hysteria about nazi's came from .... the aryans persecuted the jews like multiculturalism, feminism, and atheism are persecuting the white christian male.... therefore "progressivism" is a total assault on white men because it seeks to include people of other races, genders, and creeds ... if we give pell grants and scholarships for hispanic women to go to college, there will be less room for white men.....

2. postmodernism is apparently the biggest threat to liberty... because the "postmodernist" doesn't take words literally, but rather digs for symbolism... so postmodern christians are more liberal and symbolic with their interpretation of the word of god, and literalism is dying out... these people aren't really christians... and when words lose their meaning, people die... postmodernism is killing people


all the women in this documentary seemed absolutely terrified. all the men seemed to have erections. my heart is screaming and shrinking and swelling and bleeding and leaking in the juxtaposition of all that fear and sadness and death and joy and repressed inappropriate arousal.

i just watched waiting for armageddon.......

1. i now understand where the sudden hysteria about nazi's came from .... the aryans persecuted the jews like multiculturalism, feminism, and atheism are persecuting the white christian male.... therefore "progressivism" is a total assault on white men because it seeks to include people of other races, genders, and creeds ... if we give pell grants and scholarships for hispanic women to go to college, there will be less room for white men.....

2. postmodernism is apparently the biggest threat to liberty... because the "postmodernist" doesn't take words literally, but rather digs for symbolism... so postmodern christians are more liberal and symbolic with their interpretation of the word of god, and literalism is dying out... these people aren't really christians... and when words lose their meaning, people die... postmodernism is killing people


all the women in this documentary seemed absolutely terrified. all the men seemed to have erections. my heart is screaming and shrinking and swelling and bleeding and leaking in the juxtaposition of all that fear and sadness and death and joy and repressed inappropriate arousal.

>> ^TheGenk:

14k$ for 1 semester?
Let me check germany: 500€ for 1 semester... hmm, let me check what I have to pay since I got siblings: 0€ for 1 semester
Haha, way to go capitalist idiots!


Hell... even here in Portugal, a whole year of college is less than €1000, and if you're poor, you can get a scholarship and pay almost half of that.

So yeah... I gotta agree with TheGenk on this one.