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It could be argued that doing all of that despite being a member of an oppressed group would be more meritorious than not. Swimming a mile is one thing, swimmin
by guerrilla 5y ago
It could be argued that doing all of that despite being a member of an oppressed group would be more meritorious than not. Swimming a mile is one thing, swimming a mile upstream is another.
- ALittleLight 5y agoWhat is the innate disadvantage you think Hispanics have in academics?
- guerrilla 5y agoIs this really a good faith question? Like all other Hispanics in white dominated environments they face everything from casual racism to outright discrimination.
- pqs 5y agoMany hispanics are white. This US racial categories are pure madness, quite useless in fact, and they do more harm than good.
- guerrilla 5y agoFair point. Let's pretend I hedged for that :)
- WalterBright 5y agoThe best prof I had at Caltech was Professor Ricardo Gomez. He had a long ponytail, wore leathers, and rode his chopper to work. Without him, I would have likely flunked out.
- native_samples 5y agoYes, being a Hispanic at MIT is soooo tough. After all, when he got a meeting with the president: "We had our conversation in Spanish, and I think that afforded some candor that would not have been there otherwise." Being able to talk to the Hispanic President of MIT in his own native language and getting benefits from that is not exactly screaming discrimination, is it.
- happy_path 5y agoAre you seriously comparing a positive anecdote with several years of issues in his workplace (according to his final remarks)?
- inglor_cz 5y agoThe academia is very heavily D-dominated, though, with a lot of anti-racist activism going on. These should theoretically be the people who do not engage in casual racism or outright discrimination against Hispanics.
- soundnote 5y agoImagine if anti-racist activists weren't themselves horribly racist. Their entire creed prizes skin colour above the individual, and treats them as members of groups first, people second. Hell, a lot of those activists trying to get merit-based admissions out of schools? It's to get schools to be less Asian. San Fran just recalled a bunch of activist types from school boards, and I'd bet money that vote was in good part driven by the Asian population realizing the activist faculty were out to screw them over.
- ALittleLight 5y agoDoes "casual racism" include believing that people of specific ethnicities are swimming upstream if they get involved in academics? Are Chinese, Japanese, and Indian academics swimming upstream too?