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It was better decades ago when I was a student. We were all white middle- or high-income straight white Judeo-Christian (mostly) able-bodied men. There was abso

by bregma 5y ago

It was better decades ago when I was a student. We were all white middle- or high-income straight white Judeo-Christian (mostly) able-bodied men. There was absolutely no pressure to conform.

screye 5y ago
This is bait, but I'll bite. A bunch of my uncles and senior team members are Indians who went to grad school in the US. All of them found it to be an amazing, welcoming and energizing experience. They have many stories of committing social faux-pas of levels that you'd imagine christians would crucify you for. Contrary to expectation, their mistakes were quickly forgotten after everyone had a hearty laugh. The left loves to pretend that the US an utmost racist place that suddenly got better once the proto-woke took over. However, demographic changes of such levels do not happen overnight or over decades. The people of the US have issues, but they are orders of magnitude more multicultural than most other nations, developed or otherwise. (Govt/Policy level bias is a whole nother issue, I'm talking more about the day-2-day)
- esyir 5y ago
  I'll add this in. I don't have to watch my language around the right associated sacred cows. I can talk shit about religion, attack anti abortion activism and still be fine. But man, do anything with the left's cows and you'd eat a ban or worse.
itronitron 5y ago
Decades ago, as an earnest freshman in college I participated in the 'multicultural awareness group' ... during one of the meetings I recall one young woman taking the floor and complaining, in a rather exasperated tone, about how she was sick and tired of people making all kinds of stereotypical assumptions about her background and interests due to her being Jewish, and finished by saying that what made this even more outrageous for her was that she wasn't Jewish. Decades later, two points that I'd like to make are that 2) teaching people about the perspectives of others is important and valuable to the people being taught and 1) while privileged groups do exist not everyone that could be sloppily assigned to that group is in fact privileged (there are many people that have been and will be disadvantaged despite being born 'white').

by bregma 5y ago

It was better decades ago when I was a student. We were all white middle- or high-income straight white Judeo-Christian (mostly) able-bodied men. There was absolutely no pressure to conform.

screye 5y ago

This is bait, but I'll bite. A bunch of my uncles and senior team members are Indians who went to grad school in the US. All of them found it to be an amazing, welcoming and energizing experience. They have many stories of committing social faux-pas of levels that you'd imagine christians would crucify you for. Contrary to expectation, their mistakes were quickly forgotten after everyone had a hearty laugh. The left loves to pretend that the US an utmost racist place that suddenly got better once the proto-woke took over. However, demographic changes of such levels do not happen overnight or over decades. The people of the US have issues, but they are orders of magnitude more multicultural than most other nations, developed or otherwise. (Govt/Policy level bias is a whole nother issue, I'm talking more about the day-2-day)

esyir 5y ago
I'll add this in. I don't have to watch my language around the right associated sacred cows. I can talk shit about religion, attack anti abortion activism and still be fine. But man, do anything with the left's cows and you'd eat a ban or worse.

itronitron 5y ago

Decades ago, as an earnest freshman in college I participated in the 'multicultural awareness group' ... during one of the meetings I recall one young woman taking the floor and complaining, in a rather exasperated tone, about how she was sick and tired of people making all kinds of stereotypical assumptions about her background and interests due to her being Jewish, and finished by saying that what made this even more outrageous for her was that she wasn't Jewish. Decades later, two points that I'd like to make are that 2) teaching people about the perspectives of others is important and valuable to the people being taught and 1) while privileged groups do exist not everyone that could be sloppily assigned to that group is in fact privileged (there are many people that have been and will be disadvantaged despite being born 'white').