Category: The “W” Word

What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?

Children R Our Future The "W" Word 19 Comments

University!

A Justice Department investigation has found Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law, officials said Thursday.
 
The findings detailed in a letter to the college’s attorneys Thursday mark the latest action by the Trump administration aimed at rooting out discrimination in the college application process, following complaints from students about the application process at some Ivy League colleges.
 
The two-year investigation concluded that Yale “rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit,” the Justice Department said.

Good.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Quackery The "W" Word 32 Comments

New Zealand, meet your new doctors.

For this year’s intake, Otago had 202 places available for first year students entering from its intermediate year. (Otago does not take first year students from other universities). Of those, 120 were given to those entering under a raft of categories.
 
Of those, 58 were Māori, 20 were Pasifika, 1 Māori/Pasifika and 29 entered through the rural gate. Eleven students went in under the low socio-economic category and one under a new refugee category. That left only 82 general entry places (40 per cent).
 
As well as the 202 places for first year students, Otago medical school fills another 80 places with graduates. Overall for 2020, Māori and Pasifika make up 32 per cent of students starting at the school, while 14 per cent have rural backgrounds, 4 per cent low socioeconomic, and 1 per cent refugee.
 
Auckland medical school shows a similar pattern. For the 2020 year it had 185 places for first year health science or bio-medicine students. Māori and Pasifika took up 52 places, rural got 25, disabled 2, low socioeconomic 5 and refugee 1. That left 101 places (55 per cent) for general entry students.
 
Looking at percentages for the 2020 intake, Māori and Pasifika students took up nearly 40 per cent of the places at Otago for first year health science students and 28.1 per cent of the total places for first year students at Auckland.
 
At Otago that meant general entry students had to get, as one student put it, “ludicrously” high grades to be accepted. In fact candidates needed at least a 94 per cent average mark for their seven papers to get an offer. […]
 
The average mark for the sub-category entrants is not held by the university and it was not able to provide it before deadline.
 
However, sub-category entrants must get a 70 per cent minimum for each paper. Those who achieve an average of at least 70 per cent can be admitted with individual subject marks under 70 per cent so long as the admissions committee is satisfied about their academic ability to complete the programme.

If It Wasn’t For Fake Hate

The "W" Word 13 Comments

There would be no hate at all;

An Oregon politician fessed up to sending himself a racist and homophobic letter, then claiming it was left anonymously in his mailbox on June 23 […]
 
“From the onset, this alleged incident has been thoroughly investigated,” said Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston. “Our investigation has shown that Mr. Lopez wrote the letter himself and made false statements to the police and on social media. The end result is a verbal and written admission by Mr. Lopez that the letter was fabricated.”
 
At first, Lopez tried to say it was a big misunderstanding, and that he had planned to discuss racism with Chief Edmiston – using the letter as an example of the type of racism experienced by minorities.

Khmer Noir

Freespeechers The "W" Word 46 Comments

Thank you for your support in this time of cultural purge;

There is a theme in the emails. People are scared, this is nothing like anyone has seen. The speech policing is so intense that people are afraid to speak up for fear of loss of a job, even if the speech is not on the job (mine wasn’t). Views and speech are being driven underground. No minds are changed, it’s just pure intimidation.
 
People are thankful that there are some people willing and able to speak up, even if they can’t.
 
This time it’s different. This is not the usual political correctness.

Related, from Rex Murphy: All it takes to resist this madness is spine. Link Fixed.

There Are No Violent Protestors In Atlanta. Never!

Media The "W" Word 11 Comments

A CNN crew was attacked by peaceful rioters and rioting protesters who are totally peaceful in Atlanta, the peacefullest city in everywhere.

I don’t think they show up without police: Where is the fire department?

Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can

Baiting The Left Cancelled The "W" Word 45 Comments

“What is the logical conclusion? What is the end of the cancel culture? I will tell you what it is. It is right here in this city, Washington, the District of Columbia. That’s where it will end if we don’t put an end to the madness now,” Cotton warned.
 
“Just up the Mall is the Washington Monument. Are we gonna tear the Washington Monument down? Are we going to rename it the Obelisk of Wokeness?” the senator asked.
 
“Up the Hill is the Washington National Cathedral where so many times we have gathered as a nation over the years to mourn our great leaders, to pray for God’s protection and deliverance in moments of national strife and struggle,” Cotton continued. “Are we going to rename the Washington National Cathedral the ‘Temple of Reason’ as the Jacobins did to Notre Dame during the French Revolution?”

I believe their answer is “yes”.

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