Recent comments in /f/nottheonion

deck_hand t1_j41e7se wrote

I am a "descendent of slavery," although I'd be ridiculed if I tried to describe myself as one. Also, every person in my father's family history, at least as far as I've been able to trace, has been impoverished. I have an uncle who's done okay, and my mother's side of the family was middle class (certainly not wealthy).

But, I am Caucasian, so all I get is blame for things I had nothing to do with. Our society needs to figure out how to move past things that people who have been dead for hundreds of years did to each other.

1

ffxivthrowaway03 t1_j41dqhx wrote

Uh... the vast majority of higher education facilities have similar policies. Very few people are ever in a position to take advantage of them because the person working there usually doesn't have college-age kids who want to go to that specific school. It's one of those pretty perks on paper that costs the schools almost nothing.

19

BouNcYToufU t1_j41cf7d wrote

honestly... I don't feel like physical scores are that important. There are plenty of jobs in the military that really never need any physicality to it... but academic scores... that's like the police academy I was teaching at allowing cadets to fail one out of three law classes because they were just struggling to pass all three classes.

7

BouNcYToufU t1_j41c0i4 wrote

during my job interview with USC, an admin said she felt it was wrong that I described myself as a Southeast Asian because I am "Chinese." She felt many Asian American "abuse" the label of SEA to get more diversity points and she wondered how I would address that if confronted by a student from SEA.

I'm not American. I'm from Malaysia.

25