[Dukehorn]

So is the yahoo layoff just an isolated blip? The Bay Area is pretty diversified but a recession will impact all the companies (Cisco, Apple etc.), and you have to figure the first thing to go in a a downturn is advertising (so google as well).

[Dukehorn]

Heh heh, I actually am an angry Asian dude (well when it comes to anonymous folks glibly talking about racism or creationism–otherwise I’m at a pretty good stage in my life)

Anyhow, surprisingly enough I was a card-carrying Republican over 10 years ago–was asked to become involved with the Republican National Committee way back then. Refused to vote for Bush for governor of Texas and felt like I’ve been FORCED steadily leftward due to my concerns about the environment, my love for science, my involvement in high tech industries and my secularism. Guess I’ve always been a fiscal conservative but the social issues have gotten to be more important to me.

I guess the day that a prominent NYC law firm asked me as a 2L to sign a document that they had interviewed a “minority candidate” really brought to focus how shitty life could be for really smart African Americans (strangely, only that one law firm did that and they did give me an offer).

[Dukehorn]

Heh heh, I actually am an angry Asian dude (well when it comes to anonymous folks glibly talking about racism or creationism–otherwise I’m at a pretty good stage in my life)

Anyhow, surprisingly enough I was a card-carrying Republican over 10 years ago–was asked to become involved with the Republican National Committee way back then. Refused to vote for Bush for governor of Texas and felt like I’ve been FORCED steadily leftward due to my concerns about the environment, my love for science, my involvement in high tech industries and my secularism. Guess I’ve always been a fiscal conservative but the social issues have gotten to be more important to me.

I guess the day that a prominent NYC law firm asked me as a 2L to sign a document that they had interviewed a “minority candidate” really brought to focus how shitty life could be for really smart African Americans (strangely, only that one law firm did that and they did give me an offer).

[Dukehorn]

Heh heh, I actually am an angry Asian dude (well when it comes to anonymous folks glibly talking about racism or creationism–otherwise I’m at a pretty good stage in my life)

Anyhow, surprisingly enough I was a card-carrying Republican over 10 years ago–was asked to become involved with the Republican National Committee way back then. Refused to vote for Bush for governor of Texas and felt like I’ve been FORCED steadily leftward due to my concerns about the environment, my love for science, my involvement in high tech industries and my secularism. Guess I’ve always been a fiscal conservative but the social issues have gotten to be more important to me.

I guess the day that a prominent NYC law firm asked me as a 2L to sign a document that they had interviewed a “minority candidate” really brought to focus how shitty life could be for really smart African Americans (strangely, only that one law firm did that and they did give me an offer).

[Dukehorn]

Heh heh, I actually am an angry Asian dude (well when it comes to anonymous folks glibly talking about racism or creationism–otherwise I’m at a pretty good stage in my life)

Anyhow, surprisingly enough I was a card-carrying Republican over 10 years ago–was asked to become involved with the Republican National Committee way back then. Refused to vote for Bush for governor of Texas and felt like I’ve been FORCED steadily leftward due to my concerns about the environment, my love for science, my involvement in high tech industries and my secularism. Guess I’ve always been a fiscal conservative but the social issues have gotten to be more important to me.

I guess the day that a prominent NYC law firm asked me as a 2L to sign a document that they had interviewed a “minority candidate” really brought to focus how shitty life could be for really smart African Americans (strangely, only that one law firm did that and they did give me an offer).

[Dukehorn]

Heh heh, I actually am an angry Asian dude (well when it comes to anonymous folks glibly talking about racism or creationism–otherwise I’m at a pretty good stage in my life)

Anyhow, surprisingly enough I was a card-carrying Republican over 10 years ago–was asked to become involved with the Republican National Committee way back then. Refused to vote for Bush for governor of Texas and felt like I’ve been FORCED steadily leftward due to my concerns about the environment, my love for science, my involvement in high tech industries and my secularism. Guess I’ve always been a fiscal conservative but the social issues have gotten to be more important to me.

I guess the day that a prominent NYC law firm asked me as a 2L to sign a document that they had interviewed a “minority candidate” really brought to focus how shitty life could be for really smart African Americans (strangely, only that one law firm did that and they did give me an offer).

[Dukehorn]

Personally I would like Allan to attempt to do the same type of analysis of Ann Coulter’s scholarship and perhaps we can compare notes. You do know why she’s given up putting footnotes in her recent books?

Calling Wolf’s work scholarship is a misnomer since (last I checked) she is not an academic bound by the strictures of “good scholarship”. She is a feminist writer pure and simple. In fact, a comparison of her work to Coulter’s is appropriate since they both (in essence) are hacks.

However, in reading their respective books, who’s the true “hate” monger and who is the person attempting to make our society a better place? I’d say Coulter for the former and Wolf for the latter (and you might disagree).

Allan, way back in undergrad, for my military propaganda class (one of my undergrad majors was military history), I did a paper on how the press and GIs perceived and treated Germans versus the Japanese (including POWs and trophies of war). Have an educated guess on what the general trend line was?

[Dukehorn]

Personally I would like Allan to attempt to do the same type of analysis of Ann Coulter’s scholarship and perhaps we can compare notes. You do know why she’s given up putting footnotes in her recent books?

Calling Wolf’s work scholarship is a misnomer since (last I checked) she is not an academic bound by the strictures of “good scholarship”. She is a feminist writer pure and simple. In fact, a comparison of her work to Coulter’s is appropriate since they both (in essence) are hacks.

However, in reading their respective books, who’s the true “hate” monger and who is the person attempting to make our society a better place? I’d say Coulter for the former and Wolf for the latter (and you might disagree).

Allan, way back in undergrad, for my military propaganda class (one of my undergrad majors was military history), I did a paper on how the press and GIs perceived and treated Germans versus the Japanese (including POWs and trophies of war). Have an educated guess on what the general trend line was?

[Dukehorn]

Personally I would like Allan to attempt to do the same type of analysis of Ann Coulter’s scholarship and perhaps we can compare notes. You do know why she’s given up putting footnotes in her recent books?

Calling Wolf’s work scholarship is a misnomer since (last I checked) she is not an academic bound by the strictures of “good scholarship”. She is a feminist writer pure and simple. In fact, a comparison of her work to Coulter’s is appropriate since they both (in essence) are hacks.

However, in reading their respective books, who’s the true “hate” monger and who is the person attempting to make our society a better place? I’d say Coulter for the former and Wolf for the latter (and you might disagree).

Allan, way back in undergrad, for my military propaganda class (one of my undergrad majors was military history), I did a paper on how the press and GIs perceived and treated Germans versus the Japanese (including POWs and trophies of war). Have an educated guess on what the general trend line was?

[Dukehorn]

Personally I would like Allan to attempt to do the same type of analysis of Ann Coulter’s scholarship and perhaps we can compare notes. You do know why she’s given up putting footnotes in her recent books?

Calling Wolf’s work scholarship is a misnomer since (last I checked) she is not an academic bound by the strictures of “good scholarship”. She is a feminist writer pure and simple. In fact, a comparison of her work to Coulter’s is appropriate since they both (in essence) are hacks.

However, in reading their respective books, who’s the true “hate” monger and who is the person attempting to make our society a better place? I’d say Coulter for the former and Wolf for the latter (and you might disagree).

Allan, way back in undergrad, for my military propaganda class (one of my undergrad majors was military history), I did a paper on how the press and GIs perceived and treated Germans versus the Japanese (including POWs and trophies of war). Have an educated guess on what the general trend line was?

[Dukehorn]

Personally I would like Allan to attempt to do the same type of analysis of Ann Coulter’s scholarship and perhaps we can compare notes. You do know why she’s given up putting footnotes in her recent books?

Calling Wolf’s work scholarship is a misnomer since (last I checked) she is not an academic bound by the strictures of “good scholarship”. She is a feminist writer pure and simple. In fact, a comparison of her work to Coulter’s is appropriate since they both (in essence) are hacks.

However, in reading their respective books, who’s the true “hate” monger and who is the person attempting to make our society a better place? I’d say Coulter for the former and Wolf for the latter (and you might disagree).

Allan, way back in undergrad, for my military propaganda class (one of my undergrad majors was military history), I did a paper on how the press and GIs perceived and treated Germans versus the Japanese (including POWs and trophies of war). Have an educated guess on what the general trend line was?

[Dukehorn]

As a person of color, I’d like toss in my two cents.

I’d like other Asians to toss in their two cents because I’ve personally experienced racism and I know what I’ve encountered is not half as bad as what blacks encounter in the US. I’m not discounting what whites have to say on that issue, but it is remarkable the number of whites conservatives that pretend that racism isn’t an issue. Just because you say you aren’t a racist doesn’t make it true. And it’s not a strawman argument when one initiates a debate with a comment that the left wing loves melanin to examine the possible corollary, that the right wing hates it.

First off, in another thread here, I had to respond when someone mocked Obama for being editor of the Harvard Law Review when that same person was willing to vote for someone who scraped by with gentlemen’s Cs while in school. Why does a black who does well in school get called out possibly on affirmative action grounds but some white who is an obvious legacy candidate gets a pass for doing poorly in school?

As for “isolated” instances of racism, how many personal experiences does someone have to experience to determine that our society isn’t color-blind? 5, 10, 15, 50? As I’ve grown older and moved from the Deep South to California, my personal experiences with racism have diminished, but is that a function of overall society or me moving to a more diverse part of the country and my work/personal group being composed entirely of folks with graduate degrees?

I don’t know the answer, but let’s just say I was shocked to see an Indian Sikh colleague of mine called a sand nigger back in 2003 when he and I were on the campus of a North Carolina public university to give a presentation. I guess the anti-PC folks would claim that it’s just free speech and not a hate issue, but I guess you just had to be there.

[Dukehorn]

As a person of color, I’d like toss in my two cents.

I’d like other Asians to toss in their two cents because I’ve personally experienced racism and I know what I’ve encountered is not half as bad as what blacks encounter in the US. I’m not discounting what whites have to say on that issue, but it is remarkable the number of whites conservatives that pretend that racism isn’t an issue. Just because you say you aren’t a racist doesn’t make it true. And it’s not a strawman argument when one initiates a debate with a comment that the left wing loves melanin to examine the possible corollary, that the right wing hates it.

First off, in another thread here, I had to respond when someone mocked Obama for being editor of the Harvard Law Review when that same person was willing to vote for someone who scraped by with gentlemen’s Cs while in school. Why does a black who does well in school get called out possibly on affirmative action grounds but some white who is an obvious legacy candidate gets a pass for doing poorly in school?

As for “isolated” instances of racism, how many personal experiences does someone have to experience to determine that our society isn’t color-blind? 5, 10, 15, 50? As I’ve grown older and moved from the Deep South to California, my personal experiences with racism have diminished, but is that a function of overall society or me moving to a more diverse part of the country and my work/personal group being composed entirely of folks with graduate degrees?

I don’t know the answer, but let’s just say I was shocked to see an Indian Sikh colleague of mine called a sand nigger back in 2003 when he and I were on the campus of a North Carolina public university to give a presentation. I guess the anti-PC folks would claim that it’s just free speech and not a hate issue, but I guess you just had to be there.

[Dukehorn]

As a person of color, I’d like toss in my two cents.

I’d like other Asians to toss in their two cents because I’ve personally experienced racism and I know what I’ve encountered is not half as bad as what blacks encounter in the US. I’m not discounting what whites have to say on that issue, but it is remarkable the number of whites conservatives that pretend that racism isn’t an issue. Just because you say you aren’t a racist doesn’t make it true. And it’s not a strawman argument when one initiates a debate with a comment that the left wing loves melanin to examine the possible corollary, that the right wing hates it.

First off, in another thread here, I had to respond when someone mocked Obama for being editor of the Harvard Law Review when that same person was willing to vote for someone who scraped by with gentlemen’s Cs while in school. Why does a black who does well in school get called out possibly on affirmative action grounds but some white who is an obvious legacy candidate gets a pass for doing poorly in school?

As for “isolated” instances of racism, how many personal experiences does someone have to experience to determine that our society isn’t color-blind? 5, 10, 15, 50? As I’ve grown older and moved from the Deep South to California, my personal experiences with racism have diminished, but is that a function of overall society or me moving to a more diverse part of the country and my work/personal group being composed entirely of folks with graduate degrees?

I don’t know the answer, but let’s just say I was shocked to see an Indian Sikh colleague of mine called a sand nigger back in 2003 when he and I were on the campus of a North Carolina public university to give a presentation. I guess the anti-PC folks would claim that it’s just free speech and not a hate issue, but I guess you just had to be there.

[Dukehorn]

As a person of color, I’d like toss in my two cents.

I’d like other Asians to toss in their two cents because I’ve personally experienced racism and I know what I’ve encountered is not half as bad as what blacks encounter in the US. I’m not discounting what whites have to say on that issue, but it is remarkable the number of whites conservatives that pretend that racism isn’t an issue. Just because you say you aren’t a racist doesn’t make it true. And it’s not a strawman argument when one initiates a debate with a comment that the left wing loves melanin to examine the possible corollary, that the right wing hates it.

First off, in another thread here, I had to respond when someone mocked Obama for being editor of the Harvard Law Review when that same person was willing to vote for someone who scraped by with gentlemen’s Cs while in school. Why does a black who does well in school get called out possibly on affirmative action grounds but some white who is an obvious legacy candidate gets a pass for doing poorly in school?

As for “isolated” instances of racism, how many personal experiences does someone have to experience to determine that our society isn’t color-blind? 5, 10, 15, 50? As I’ve grown older and moved from the Deep South to California, my personal experiences with racism have diminished, but is that a function of overall society or me moving to a more diverse part of the country and my work/personal group being composed entirely of folks with graduate degrees?

I don’t know the answer, but let’s just say I was shocked to see an Indian Sikh colleague of mine called a sand nigger back in 2003 when he and I were on the campus of a North Carolina public university to give a presentation. I guess the anti-PC folks would claim that it’s just free speech and not a hate issue, but I guess you just had to be there.

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