Cornell charges students $1,800 for racially-segregated rock climbing class, frantically scrubs website when confronted

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (19 children)

Beside the point.

You'd also be welcome to join them, regardless of what you call yourself.

The legal way in which you can call yourself black, asian, Native American, or any other ethnicy is if you are an 8th of one of those. and the choice to call yourself one or more of those ethnicities is entirely up to you (as long as there are the ancestor records or DNA evidence to prove it (eg. if you are applying for a job that favors non-whites).

[–]specialsauces 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (12 children)

what about transgenders? they call themselves female.. are they at least 1/8th female?

why cant we just go back to the good old days when we had school shootouts like columbine?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

So my FBI friend tells me that you're already surrounded, and to come out of your basement with your hands up.

[–]specialsauces 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

nah, i have neighbors that are fbi and i have neighbors that are local police and sheriffs and fire department..

i just smoked a cigarette with one of the local firemen about thirty minutes ago.

if they want to talk to me, they know where i am at.

[–]Airbus320 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ignore him, he is a male 🤢

[–]specialsauces 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

i am not male, i am female, i am lesbian.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

That's what they tell me.

They too mourn the innocent people at Columbine High, and would like a word.

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    What a coward.

    Get help.

    [–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    So why are you still on saidit again?

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Serious question, Airbus: do you agree with this?: "there is no need to mourn the children that were killed at columbine. they deserved what they got."

    [–]Akali 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    To a certain extend, I think intimidation in school is being left to itself way to often. Bully gets away with everything because teachers turn a blind eyes to it since if they don't see it, they don't have to take care of it.

    Shootout aren't the solution, but you can be sure that my children will know tek wondo before they learn football and when that bully will try to harrass them, then they'll KO the bully in one round.

    Edit : But don't leave saidit ever, it's good to have different opinion.

    [–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Maybe they did? How would I know

    [–]thoughtcriminal 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    DNA evidence to prove

    Ah yes, I can't wait to live in the utopian society where I'm asked to provide evidence of my ethnicity and a DNA profile to the state so they can determine where I am on the privilege hierarchy prior to looking at my resume. Only then, will we all be truly equal.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I too am annouyed by it. It's called reverse discrimination (in the US, and in the UK: positive discrimination). I think some of the "affirmative action" programs have expired, but new 'diversity' programs are taking their places. Whereas I agree that there should be less discrimination when hiring people, the solution shouldn't be a bean-counting exercise. There should be a matrix that assesses the number qualaified underrepresented or marginalized people in the field, along with various other statistics.

    [–]thoughtcriminal 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I think we agree until the last part where you mentioned a matrix. I think we should remove discrimination as much as possible from the hiring process. But I don't see hiring underrepresented people as necessarily being a positive thing on its own.

    The first question to ask would be why are they underrepresented. If it's due to discrimination, let's address it. If it's due to some other factor, like choice, it's not a problem. If the goal is to get underrepresented people in specific fields, I think that should be addressed before they're applying for a job - through education, socioeconomic factors, accessibility to quality education, etc. Addressing the root causes will naturally lead to representations in fields that maximize individual choice and fairness, rather than quotas and artificial balances of immutable characteristics based on statistics and numbers.

    [–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I believe a German party introduced a similar system in the 1930s.

    [–]jet199 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    DNA evidence and ancestry records are transphobic though.

    [–]bjam27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    They should be tried for violating title 9 for restricting access. If the races were reversed they absolutely would be.