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June 5, 2017 at 9:15 PM #806849June 6, 2017 at 7:23 AM #806850
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Participant[quote=outtamojo]Coworkers says she was watching fox news and they said some kid got accepted to Stanford just for writing BLM on essay. She totally believed it, she being college educated also.[/quote]
i thik that one might be true
June 6, 2017 at 7:43 AM #806852SK in CV
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Coworkers says she was watching fox news and they said some kid got accepted to Stanford just for writing BLM on essay. She totally believed it, she being college educated also.[/quote]
i thik that one might be true
I think you’re promoting fake news there scaredy. The article is pretty clear, the kid did not get accepted to Stanford “just for writing BLM on [an] essay”. His ‘writing BLM” may have had nothing to do with his acceptance, and it wasn’t an essay.
A more appropriate claim would be that Fox News may have taken a tiny piece of the story and turned into a central part, in order to enrage their viewers. Which is exactly what Fox News has been doing for decades, leading to postings on RE blogs claiming “Right-Wing Media are Destroying Our Country”.
June 6, 2017 at 9:48 AM #806853Participant[quote=SK in CV][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Coworkers says she was watching fox news and they said some kid got accepted to Stanford just for writing BLM on essay. She totally believed it, she being college educated also.[/quote]
i thik that one might be true
I think you’re promoting fake news there scaredy. The article is pretty clear, the kid did not get accepted to Stanford “just for writing BLM on [an] essay”. His ‘writing BLM” may have had nothing to do with his acceptance, and it wasn’t an essay.
A more appropriate claim would be that Fox News may have taken a tiny piece of the story and turned into a central part, in order to enrage their viewers. Which is exactly what Fox News has been doing for decades, leading to postings on RE blogs claiming “Right-Wing Media are Destroying Our Country”.[/quote]
wait. it was his college app essay.
its kind of a lame essay.
i looked at the foxnews article. seems similar to nbc. doesnt claim this is why he was admitted just describes essay and his surprise it worked.
doesnt claim he was otherwise unqualified. just that this was his essay
maybe essays dont matter. or maybe it was good and i just missed it.
conceptual art?
i just find the essay not persuasive or moving. but, reasonable minds can differ. also not sure it is technically an essay.
stanford app calls for an essay. pretty specific about what they want.
http://admission.stanford.edu/application/freshman/essays.html
essays are loosely defined historically but im not persuaded this qualifies as an essay.
i suppose even a blank sheet could be an essay… a statement on minimalism in a consumerist society.
still, i like to see some more style in writing.
maybe the whole event in not newsworthy. just designed to stir up racial animus?
i think id disagree with that. i think its an interesting story. foxnews readers might be more inclined to infer he wasnt qualified but theres no info on that. clearly the kids smart. he knew his audience and persuaded them.
perhsps interestingly, the kids a rich bangladeshi muslim and grew up in the rather upperclass enclave of princeton nj. attends princeton day school [tuition is 33,430/yr for hs there!]. his website…
https://www.ziadtheactivist.com/about
very very smart kid.
kind of funny, somehow. ormaybe sad.
i listened to macolm gladwells higher ed podcasts on college admissions unsuvcessful attempts to recruit smart underprivileged kids… dudes brilliant, engaging and makes unexpected connections and intellectual leaps. much deeper than ziad the activist. altho not fair, ziads just a kid
June 6, 2017 at 10:26 AM #806854outtamojo
Participant[quote=SK in CV][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Coworkers says she was watching fox news and they said some kid got accepted to Stanford just for writing BLM on essay. She totally believed it, she being college educated also.[/quote]
i thik that one might be true
I think you’re promoting fake news there scaredy. The article is pretty clear, the kid did not get accepted to Stanford “just for writing BLM on [an] essay”. His ‘writing BLM” may have had nothing to do with his acceptance, and it wasn’t an essay.
A more appropriate claim would be that Fox News may have taken a tiny piece of the story and turned into a central part, in order to enrage their viewers. Which is exactly what Fox News has been doing for decades, leading to postings on RE blogs claiming “Right-Wing Media are Destroying Our Country”.[/quote]
You said it ten times better than I did. Feeling I got from coworker was that writing BLM was the ONLY thing that got him into Stanford. She then went on to say don’t let your kids to Berkeley they will turn them into kooks.
All sad really, as I have known this person for 26 years now and she was in the beginning all kindness and compassion, now all I sense is anger in her. I blame fox news, they know their audience and how to persuade THEM.June 6, 2017 at 10:54 AM #806855FlyerInHi
Guest[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Coworkers says she was watching fox news and they said some kid got accepted to Stanford just for writing BLM on essay. She totally believed it, she being college educated also.[/quote]
i thik that one might be true
The funny thing is that Stanford is a private institution.
I think right wingers feel that private organizations should be able to do what they wish including discriminate however they f’ing choose.June 6, 2017 at 11:16 AM #806856Guest[quote=outtamojo]
Feeling I got from coworker was that writing BLM was the ONLY thing that got him into Stanford. She then went on to say don’t let your kids to Berkeley they will turn them into kooks.
All sad really, as I have known this person for 26 years now and she was in the beginning all kindness and compassion, now all I sense is anger in her. I blame fox news, they know their audience and how to persuade THEM.[/quote]Did you ever meet the husband?
My experience is that right-wing women have right wing husbands. It’s the loyalty thing.
Fox News got to your woman colleague through her husband.Sad to say but right-wing women don’t believe in equal lib. They happily submit to their husbands, husbands who are too insecure to have self-sufficient wives.
Ha, don’t let your kids go to Berkeley! More likely, her kids aren’t smart enough to get in.
The bitterness and insecuty cause people to seize on ah ha news to prove that they are being screwed by minorities and elitists who favor furiners over real Americans. It’s easier to think this way than to improve themselves. Fox News feeds them the news so that everyday they can go “ah ha, see, see they are screwing us of what is rightfully ours.”
June 6, 2017 at 1:22 PM #806858Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=outtamojo]
Feeling I got from coworker was that writing BLM was the ONLY thing that got him into Stanford. She then went on to say don’t let your kids to Berkeley they will turn them into kooks.
All sad really, as I have known this person for 26 years now and she was in the beginning all kindness and compassion, now all I sense is anger in her. I blame fox news, they know their audience and how to persuade THEM.[/quote]Did you ever meet the husband?
My experience is that right-wing women have right wing husbands. It’s the loyalty thing.
Fox News got to your woman colleague through her husband.Sad to say but right-wing women don’t believe in equal lib. They happily submit to their husbands, husbands who are too insecure to have self-sufficient wives.
Ha, don’t let your kids go to Berkeley! More likely, her kids aren’t smart enough to get in.
The bitterness and insecuty cause people to seize on ah ha news to prove that they are being screwed by minorities and elitists who favor furiners over real Americans. It’s easier to think this way than to improve themselves. Fox News feeds them the news so that everyday they can go “ah ha, see, see they are screwing us of what is rightfully ours.”[/quote]
They got their hooks into her not thru her hubby but with their diatribes about religious freedom and persecution of christians.
June 8, 2017 at 12:52 PM #806862Guest[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=SK in CV][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Coworkers says she was watching fox news and they said some kid got accepted to Stanford just for writing BLM on essay. She totally believed it, she being college educated also.[/quote]
i thik that one might be true
I think you’re promoting fake news there scaredy. The article is pretty clear, the kid did not get accepted to Stanford “just for writing BLM on [an] essay”. His ‘writing BLM” may have had nothing to do with his acceptance, and it wasn’t an essay.
A more appropriate claim would be that Fox News may have taken a tiny piece of the story and turned into a central part, in order to enrage their viewers. Which is exactly what Fox News has been doing for decades, leading to postings on RE blogs claiming “Right-Wing Media are Destroying Our Country”.[/quote]
wait. it was his college app essay.
its kind of a lame essay.
i looked at the foxnews article. seems similar to nbc. doesnt claim this is why he was admitted just describes essay and his surprise it worked.
doesnt claim he was otherwise unqualified. just that this was his essay
maybe essays dont matter. or maybe it was good and i just missed it.
conceptual art?
i just find the essay not persuasive or moving. but, reasonable minds can differ. also not sure it is technically an essay.
stanford app calls for an essay. pretty specific about what they want.
http://admission.stanford.edu/application/freshman/essays.html
essays are loosely defined historically but im not persuaded this qualifies as an essay.
i suppose even a blank sheet could be an essay… a statement on minimalism in a consumerist society.
still, i like to see some more style in writing.
maybe the whole event in not newsworthy. just designed to stir up racial animus?
i think id disagree with that. i think its an interesting story. foxnews readers might be more inclined to infer he wasnt qualified but theres no info on that. clearly the kids smart. he knew his audience and persuaded them.
perhsps interestingly, the kids a rich bangladeshi muslim and grew up in the rather upperclass enclave of princeton nj. attends princeton day school [tuition is 33,430/yr for hs there!]. his website…
https://www.ziadtheactivist.com/about
very very smart kid.
kind of funny, somehow. ormaybe sad.
i listened to macolm gladwells higher ed podcasts on college admissions unsuvcessful attempts to recruit smart underprivileged kids… dudes brilliant, engaging and makes unexpected connections and intellectual leaps. much deeper than ziad the activist. altho not fair, ziads just a kid
[/quote]Scaredy, I love your take on things…. The kid is very smart for sure. He was accepted to Yale and Princeton in addition to Standford.
I would be interested in your take on why racial animus would be stirred among Fox viewers.
Aren’t those private schools like “private clubs” that should be able to act at their pleasure. At least that’s what conservatives normally believe; and that would make the facts that the student is muslim and wrote BLM totally irrelevant. Should a private school be able to admit a Christian student who writes “America First”?
June 27, 2017 at 1:03 PM #807001Anonymous
GuestJust when it seemed we’ve reached the limits of irony:
Trump golf clubs displaying fake Time magazine cover
June 30, 2017 at 6:51 AM #807032ocrenter
Participant[quote=harvey]Just when it seemed we’ve reached the limits of irony:
Trump golf clubs displaying fake Time magazine cover
But 38% of America doesn’t see the irony. They see this as just another attack on their president.
And these 38% are “more American” then you and I because their votes are weighted more.
June 30, 2017 at 11:16 AM #807035GuestWhen I was 10 years old I had a fake Sports Illustrated cover with me in my little leauge baseball uniform.
June 30, 2017 at 4:08 PM #807040no_such_reality
Participant[quote=ocrenter]
But 38% of America doesn’t see the irony. They see this as just another attack on their president.
.[/quote] I don’t know what they see. I get the irony, but really, this is just non-story. That’s the problem. Bang, bang, bang, beat the trite drum.
I get it, he’s vain, a bully, fake newsies and for ___ sake can someone on his staff please slap the twitter feed out of his hand.
The media is harping on it, all the left leaning facebook groups and jumping and howling, but it’s just trite crap.
Yes, IMO he’s shaping up to be a miserable President and even worse representation of humanity, but frankly the way his opponents behave is leaving little assurance that they’ll be any better other than they won’t be a 70+ year old apparent bigot. It’d just be a different more PC tyranny.
June 30, 2017 at 4:23 PM #807041Guest[quote=no_such_reality]Yes, IMO he’s shaping up to be a miserable President and even worse representation of humanity, but frankly the way his opponents behave is leaving little assurance that they’ll be any better other than they won’t be a 70+ year old apparent bigot. It’d just be a different more PC tyranny.[/quote]
Yes, another one of your false equivalence claims comparing the most powerful person on earth with whatever posts show up on your facebook feed.
It’s hilarious how it all goes right over your head.
And it’s sad that it’s exactly how this clown got elected.
June 30, 2017 at 4:54 PM #807043GuestHarvey, it’s called what-about-ism. The president of the USA can point to whoever common else and say “what about him”. The base in West Virginia accepts that. No wonder they are the most opiod addicted place in the country.
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