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There are parts of this article I agree with, and parts I disagree with, but this part just screaaaaams "I cannot possibly picture that any part of the world is
by gspr 6y ago
There are parts of this article I agree with, and parts I disagree with, but this part just screaaaaams "I cannot possibly picture that any part of the world is in any way different from the US":
> “Meritocracy!”, I hear you cry. “They pick from the most talented students. The ones that worked the hardest to get into the most elite schools. The black students should have just worked harder”. I guess mummy and daddy paying $20 mil for a new library to get me a seat at an ‘elite’ school is still meritocracy eh?
It also seems like a complete digression from racial justice.
- user-the-name 6y agoThe writer is not from the US.
- gspr 6y agoOh, interesting. Do you know where they're from? It sounds to me like it must be a place that's very Americanized, for sure. Edit: Nevermind, I misread the paragraph about London as being just a story about something happening in London, rather than abeing about something that happened to the author in London.
- roel_v 6y agoUK. Uses the term 'bully van', linking to urban dictionary, which specifies that this is a UK term. Plus has some British colloquialisms.
- twic 6y agoThen that is a really weird passage. HBCUs are a purely American thing. Legacy admissions are a purely American thing. Paying to get your kids into a university is a purely American thing. Also, the author uses the American spelling "curb". If they do live in London, they are presumably a migrant from the US.
- niceairport 6y agoThat's when the author has lost me as well. Pretty ironic to mock meritocracy in an article that quickly devolved into a full-on rant.
- petr_tik 6y agoAlso, it’s surprising considering the author mentions having aggro with police in London. it’s certainly unfortunate that the Metropolitan police decided to racially profile him. However, statistically, more people die in police custody in the land of the free than in Britain, so this terrible incident doesn’t represent the quality of policing in the UK. Tertiary education in the U.K. can be expensive (unless you are Scottish), but university admissions are open to everyone without having to donate millions for a library
- gordian-mind 6y agoInstead of meritocracy, he proposes black-only employment programs. What a joke. This is just the usual black supremacist posing as some kind of angry pragmatist.