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jerry kleiner's avatar

The backlash finally seems to be gathering steam. The army of fairness and common sense has awoken from its 10+ years of hibernation and is ready to do battle in the name of justice. Frankly, the leader of this movement is Donald Trump. You may not like him, and you may even abhor him, but he is the one who is giving us the faith that we may actually be able to turn the tide. We will be able to beat WOKE, DEI, Racial and Identity Politics and all the rest of the garbage that has been destroying our way of life and our values. No more equity over equality, no more a disregard of meritocracy, no more a lack of accountability.

It's exciting to feel for the first time in many years that we can truly beat this lunacy that has gripped the US, Canada, Europe and Australia and get back to common sense and decency.

papa j

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George Q Tyrebyter's avatar

During the controversy over the president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, I looked into the process of tenure at Stanford where Gay first obtained tenure. The Stanford D Poli Sci is amazing. The stellar credentials of the department members are endless - ambassadores, special counsels, etc. I looked at CVs (all posted) for cases like Gay - who arrived there after the PhD and gained tenure. I found about 7. Of those, the minimum number (excluding Gay) of publications was 7, and in many cases there were far more, even books. Gay had 3 publications before tenure. She was given the Royal Black Female Road to tenure. What an incompetent she is and was.

I have been a member of 4 departments in multiple universities. In all cases, there was a black male, who was uniformly less qualified. In this world, if you are black, you need a PhD. Your tenure is guaranteed, especially for black males.

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Toni Airaksinen's avatar

Thanks for reading, George!

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Paul Serrano's avatar

When I was in high school, I had an advisor who encouraged me to apply to his alma mater, Northwestern University. At that time it was regarded as an outstanding private school in the Midwest. I can see him turning over in his grave.

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Toni Airaksinen's avatar

Unfortunately the same story could be said abut almost every university, save for Cal Tech and Liberty University. Nothing bad about Northwestern, "this" affirmative action is at almost every school in some form, and if you don't know -- it just hasn't been reported on yet. I help high-preforming high school-students apply to the top schools and Northwestern is on a LOT of students' top 10 lists.

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BoyDogBanjo's avatar

My white, male, heterosexual son with a 1580 SAT was waitlisted by NW after being rejected by most of the bigs. He went to UTexas, got a physics degree and is doing fine, with no student debt.

Screw those people.

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Ben Slivka's avatar

The rot in academia is deep. I gave over 7,000 volunteer hours and over $7M dollars to NU over four decades. My reward: I was cancelled for speech with zero due process in 2022 by a DEI officer. https://hxstem.substack.com/p/northwestern-cancels-former-trustee has details.

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Mr. Ala's avatar

Good luck with the lawsuit, boys.

(Do you think they could do it?

(It would take a miracle.

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Somewhere in the middle's avatar

Professor Destiny? 😂

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David-2's avatar

That chart is _generous_ to Northwestern as it includes two _asian men_ as "non-white" when we all know that for purposes of DEI asians are whiter than white.

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Toni Airaksinen's avatar

thanks for reading!

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BoyDogBanjo's avatar

My white, male, heterosexual son with a 1580 SAT was waitlisted by NW after being rejected by most of the bigs. He went to UTexas, got a physics degree and is doing fine, with no student debt.

Screw those people.

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