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This is happening, but unfortunately information is not perfect (a random hiring manager doesn't know that Cal State is loosening requirements but Oregon State

by qq66 9y ago

This is happening, but unfortunately information is not perfect (a random hiring manager doesn't know that Cal State is loosening requirements but Oregon State is not) so actually the brand value of all state and community colleges is decreasing, which will have the opposite to desired effect on social mobility. CUNY has probably graduated as many Nobel Laureates as MIT undergrad, but it will be tarred with the same brush of "the average college graduate isn't what he or she used to be." A similar effect is happening in the US political arena where people are being called "-ist" for a wider range of transgressions than previously. Rather than increasing the political penalty for these offenses, the expansion of the terminology has actually weakened the associated opprobrium, because people think of being "-ist" as a less bad offense since so many more people seem to be doing it these days.

dsfyu404ed 9y ago
>weakened the associated opprobrium, because people think of being "-ist" as a less bad offense since so many more people seem to be doing it these days. This applies to all rules that govern what we consider normal behavior. When (basically) everyone is ignoring the insanely low posted speed limit the result is (basically) everyone driving the speed they feel appropriate for the conditions. When everyone knows a few gay people nobody sees the point to criminalizing being gay. A lot of people were STFUing because they were afraid of not being PC. Now that people are seeing people say even more extreme things than they wanted to say without being seriously punished they're saying those things too. Something good will probably come of all this but change is never easy or fun. It's unlikely that we'll return to a culture that accepts outright racism. Hopefully we won't continue to perpetuate a culture in which any attempt at having a frank discussion involving a touchy subject is not chilled by a fear of being name called as a BoogymanOfTheDay (e.g. racist, communist, etc).

by qq66 9y ago

dsfyu404ed 9y ago

>weakened the associated opprobrium, because people think of being "-ist" as a less bad offense since so many more people seem to be doing it these days. This applies to all rules that govern what we consider normal behavior. When (basically) everyone is ignoring the insanely low posted speed limit the result is (basically) everyone driving the speed they feel appropriate for the conditions. When everyone knows a few gay people nobody sees the point to criminalizing being gay. A lot of people were STFUing because they were afraid of not being PC. Now that people are seeing people say even more extreme things than they wanted to say without being seriously punished they're saying those things too. Something good will probably come of all this but change is never easy or fun. It's unlikely that we'll return to a culture that accepts outright racism. Hopefully we won't continue to perpetuate a culture in which any attempt at having a frank discussion involving a touchy subject is not chilled by a fear of being name called as a BoogymanOfTheDay (e.g. racist, communist, etc).