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The funny thing is that the picture doesn't even depict the reality. "James McCluskey, deputy vice-chancellor of research at the university, says that other pe
by ratww 5y ago
The funny thing is that the picture doesn't even depict the reality.
"James McCluskey, deputy vice-chancellor of research at the university, says that other people, including three women and an Indigenous man, were scheduled to receive honorary awards that day but weren’t able to make it."
So basically all the hoopla was due to some people missing an appointment, a picture and a bunch of assumptions.
- blitzar 5y ago"Snow acknowledges that other actions — such as allowing only women or people of colour at the university to apply for the fellowships — might also have been effective."
- inglor_cz 5y agoThis is really madness, I wonder if future generations will judge such policies as harshly as we judge policies of the 1930s (such as numerus clausus on Jewish students) today.
- jaoa 5y agoThis is happening now in Ivy League universities limiting the proportion of students that are Asian.