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Seriously? He's an idiot for saying this, but... "...nerds, with no social life who dropped out of Harvard or Stanford" Is probably the actual important part.
by ohyes 16y ago
Seriously? He's an idiot for saying this, but...
"...nerds, with no social life who dropped out of Harvard or Stanford"
Is probably the actual important part. For example, I'm white and male. By these criterion, I would not be selected, because I didn't drop out of an Ivy, and have a social life...
He should relax his criterion so that he allows non-male non-white nerds who dropped out of Stanford/Harvard, but I kind of doubt the candidate pool would change much...
- kenjackson 16y agoHe should relax his criterion so that he allows non-male non-white nerds who dropped out of Stanford/Harvard, but I kind of doubt the candidate pool would change much... Which is what makes what he said all the more perplexing. He could have probably also said "and are shorter than 7' tall and weighless than 500lbs and have not won a Grammy for best new R&B singer". None of those change the candidate pool much either, yet wouldn't be worth saying. The only reason I can think that he would make the statement he did is because he believes that "white maleness" is an intergral part of the equation and contribute within an order of magnitude of the other things (Ivy league drop out with no life) -- otherwise you wouldn't mention it as it doesnt' change the "complexity".