tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2592237037079157585..comments2024-03-28T17:08:40.848-04:00Comments on the daily howler: SCHOOL LIVES MATTER: Bigots under quite a few beds!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-47406463649602006972019-11-14T20:36:43.737-05:002019-11-14T20:36:43.737-05:00All thanks to the great doctor that help me to get...<br />All thanks to the great doctor that help me to get back my boyfriend I thank you so much because you man of your words than anything he said will be done is a very good man I want to use opportunity thank Dr Ben and God shall bless him for getting my boyfriend back he is back to me now I didn't believe this at first until I put effort now my boyfriend is back I thank Dr Ben for the great work He has done for me I want him to keep doing this for other people are so that you can do it for me to thank you Dr Ben. 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You can email him for solution via his working email: dr.wakinalovetemple@gmail.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12732699146762358237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-25326401884610939922015-12-21T13:27:40.285-05:002015-12-21T13:27:40.285-05:00Liver, what has occurred in your life that keeps y...Liver, what has occurred in your life that keeps you from attaining the skills that would allow you to read clear meaning from a blogger?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67365524408734343072015-12-21T11:24:46.887-05:002015-12-21T11:24:46.887-05:00"Somerby, you may think it is all a problem o..."Somerby, you may think it is all a problem of poor skill acquisition by black students"<br /><br />Arguing with a someone who is so willing to mischaracterize another's position is futile. TEX is simply a horrible person.Livernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80370514408049688152015-12-21T11:21:29.654-05:002015-12-21T11:21:29.654-05:00Impossible.Impossible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-48072048872365109992015-12-21T11:20:07.174-05:002015-12-21T11:20:07.174-05:00"Insurance is a subfield of the gambling indu..."Insurance is a subfield of the gambling industry."<br /><br />You're an idiot. Even though you are arguing against David in Cal, you are the idiot here.<br /><br />Sorry, but saying insurance is "no kind of public service" marks you as a complete fool.Egad!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65195554758609290122015-12-21T10:38:57.627-05:002015-12-21T10:38:57.627-05:00I think you are wrong about that, CMike. I think m...I think you are wrong about that, CMike. I think members of minority groups do consider the climate for them on campuses. Maybe they shouldn't because it is not what is going to matter in the long run, but I think they do.<br /><br />Students use many odd choice factors in deciding where to go. For example, whether the school has a winning Division I football team, despite being non-players themselves. They go where their friends are going or where people were nice to them during campus visits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87040027636740806662015-12-21T02:29:06.749-05:002015-12-21T02:29:06.749-05:00I doubt it's UT- Austin's reputation for b...I doubt it's UT- Austin's reputation for being inhospitable to blacks that's keeping "many qualified blacks" from attending that school. My guess would be that blacks who, based solely on their academic records, would be admitted to that public institution instead avail themselves of the opportunity to go to schools that are even more prestigious than UT-Austin and which are out recruiting the most academically accomplished blacks nation-wide.<br /><br />Now that is just my guess, but I doubt anyone can cite a study that suggests qualified blacks, at least not the in-state ones, aren't attending UT- Austin because of its reputation for being a hostile place for blacks to go to school. CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20047412383950275532015-12-20T22:52:56.101-05:002015-12-20T22:52:56.101-05:00"thrown together."
You're pathetic...."thrown together."<br /><br />You're pathetic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18138477918126456382015-12-20T20:31:11.533-05:002015-12-20T20:31:11.533-05:00No. @ 5:00 basically said qualified blacks may no...No. @ 5:00 basically said qualified blacks may not know it is in their interest to attend UT-Austin.<br /><br />Somerby said many good decent black kids cannot obtain the skills to attend UT-Austin. He ignores the fact that same thing can be said about white kids, which is why one of them sued.<br /><br />He wonders what is wrong that holds black kids back. It doesn't occur to him that there are many qualified blacks who don't attend because, despite its reputation as the best academic school in Texas, there is another reputation associated with the place in the minds of many qualified blacks, who have their pick of other, better, universities. <br /><br />Bob is not interested in black kids. He is interested in using them as a tool to browbeat white liberal adults. He is a bigot. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31179326076525895872015-12-20T16:59:12.238-05:002015-12-20T16:59:12.238-05:00Insurance is a subfield of the gambling industry. ...Insurance is a subfield of the gambling industry. Hard to build that into any kind of public service. You cannot borrow on the cache of social security, medicare and pensions when you steadfastly oppose such giveaways, as a card-carrying conservative. You also gloss the line between actual insurance and contribution-based programs that are NOT insurance.<br /><br />It is thanks to our government that insurance companies are required to carry sufficient reserves to pay out during natural disasters. This only happened after several went belly up following substantial hurricanes, like Andrew in Florida. The State of California offers its own program because no private insurance could withstand the payouts that would occur after a large earthquake that is CERTAIN to occur at some point. Private insurance just nibbles at the edges, gambling that people won't have the costly occurrences of fire and car accident that occur with probabilistic frequency. Hard to cast that as a noble occupation when what you're mostly doing is helping vultures cast their bets more wisely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58523775183324177562015-12-20T16:52:30.225-05:002015-12-20T16:52:30.225-05:00@5:00 said the same thing without calling Somerby ...@5:00 said the same thing without calling Somerby a bigot. Do you think the name calling helps anything?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1051187241509373432015-12-20T16:24:48.013-05:002015-12-20T16:24:48.013-05:00gerçek türk porno
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"Down...Want to read some racial stereotyping?<br /><br />"Down in the Lone Star State, what occurs in the lives of our many good decent black kids that keeps them from attaining the skills that would get them admitted to Austin?"<br /><br />Sorry Somerby, you may think it is all a problem of poor skill acquisition by black students which keeps them from being admitted.<br /><br />Did it ever occur to you that, with 75% of the freshman class being admitted automatically based on class rank, that the University of Texas cannot ATTRACT those black students who are already skilled enough to be admitted?<br /><br />Bigot. TEXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-53806079336556897142015-12-20T13:18:35.414-05:002015-12-20T13:18:35.414-05:00Why should students be any different than anyone e...Why should students be any different than anyone else in our society?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-85783728480563221172015-12-20T11:54:13.610-05:002015-12-20T11:54:13.610-05:00Thanks for your response, Anon 4:52 PM. I don'...Thanks for your response, Anon 4:52 PM. I don't dispute what you said, but I do find it sad. The reasoning takes it for granted that friendships, support groups and social networking will be substantially race-based. I guess it's true that white social groups are less likely to include blacks and vice versa. I had hoped that race wouldn't play so large a part for students thrown together.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28814624624215545792015-12-20T10:06:26.151-05:002015-12-20T10:06:26.151-05:00Fact checking the debate, the statements about Cli...Fact checking the debate, the statements about Clinton always say "That's correct but..." implying that she too is lying when she generally isn't.<br /><br />The "but" leads to some statistic they think she should have mentioned but didn't, as if she is obligated to present the worst picture of her performance, not the best, as people usually do. Where is it written that you are lying if you don't focus on the worst descriptions?<br /><br />More Clinton rules.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67721924800818682832015-12-19T18:54:54.415-05:002015-12-19T18:54:54.415-05:00For example, does being an actuary benefit anyone ...<i>For example, does being an actuary benefit anyone but the financial success of the insurance company and the ability of a person to support a family? What is the intrinsic interest in that field? </i><br /><br />I'm obviously biased, but I think actuaries are important to everyone who buys insurance or who has a pension with a private company or a state or municipality. Insurance companies and pension funds take money today in exchange for a promise to pay certain benefits in the future. It's vital to everyone, including the customrer, that the insurance company have sufficient assets when it comes time to pay benefits. The actuary's job is to tell the company now how much they need to set aside for future claims. <br /><br />I'd like to say that actuaries are important to Medicare and Social Security and federal pensions. They would be important if the federal government paid attention to them. David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9786106449416276302015-12-19T17:15:22.684-05:002015-12-19T17:15:22.684-05:00Bright students tend to get pushed into the STEM d...Bright students tend to get pushed into the STEM disciplines by parents who want their kids to earn a good living. If a kid isn't interested in science but is basically just doing what parents want, they won't persist when they find out that STEM is difficult and boring for those without a real interest in science or technology. That's when they change their majors.<br /><br />Of course Black studies attracts them -- they are adolescents in the process of forming their adult identities and Black Studies is about identity. It isn't easier, it is more interesting. These students need counseling that asks them what they will do with their lives after college, how they want to make a living, what they think is a valuable contribution to humanity and a useful way to spend their time on the planet. <br /><br />For example, does being an actuary benefit anyone but the financial success of the insurance company and the ability of a person to support a family? What is the intrinsic interest in that field? Making money may seem less achievable to black students, so they may switch to less lucrative fields because their values are different than the white upper middle class kids being pushed by their parents to study business or accounting (because they can always get a job in such fields). <br /><br />If you hate engineering, a degree in it from any university is not valuable to you. It condemns you to a life of drudgery when you could be doing something you both enjoy and find important.<br /><br />No student is driven out of a STEM course except the ones who are insufficiently interested to persist when they encounter material that requires effort to learn. You can retake such courses repeatedly if you really want to be in that field. impCaesarAvg gives an example of how fascinating science can be. If it didn't resonate with you, there are many other majors. Denigrating the students who didn't study what you did is a stupid pastime that too many people engage in. Society needs all kinds of training and knowledge and fortunately kids come with a wide variety of abilities and interests. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10718123499698168862015-12-19T17:03:40.159-05:002015-12-19T17:03:40.159-05:00Isn't that explanation a little hard to believ...Isn't that explanation a little hard to believe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18745315072289952182015-12-19T17:00:32.470-05:002015-12-19T17:00:32.470-05:00Choice is a two-way street. The universities choos...Choice is a two-way street. The universities choose the students they want to admit and the students who are admitted choose where they ultimately want to attend. This discussion seems to take it for granted that any black student admitted to a top school would automatically want to go there. That isn't the case. <br /><br />For families without a history of college education, there is less knowledge about which are the better schools and which lesser. High schools may not have good guidance about which schools to apply to, much less attend. <br /><br />Degrees have different worth in the job market. A degree from UT Austin may be better for opening doors to jobs and grad school, than a degree from a state university or less competitive college, because of the reputation of the school. Few employers ever look at transcripts. A student who squeaks by with C's and D's at a top school may benefit more from the reputation of that school than a student with A's and B's at a lesser school. The exception is when being admitted to grad school -- there grades count and reputation of the school counts too. Ideally you want the best possible grades from the best possibly school to get into the most highly regarded grad program -- because that will make it most likely you will get hired after graduation and determine your salary in certain fields. African American kids are less likely to be told these things by guidance counselors and their parents are less likely to know them. That's why encouragement and even affirmative action from the top schools are needed -- to counteract the missed opportunity due to simple lack of understanding about how academia and the job market work in professional fields. It is our social responsibility to open those doors -- even to students who don't know they should be seeking admission to them.<br /><br />I think it is grossly unfair to pretend that a separate but unequal secondary track will provide the same opportunities down the road -- independent of student effort and accomplishment. It just isn't true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-3998331889533556792015-12-19T16:52:27.954-05:002015-12-19T16:52:27.954-05:00My point was that they don't feel comfortable ...My point was that they don't feel comfortable without friends and support network (as is true for people of all races) and thus choose to go elsewhere, not that they are "less successful."<br /><br />In practice, students who form study groups and have support do better -- yes, there are studies showing that. If you have greater difficulty finding inclusion, it stands to reason it would affect academic performance. That is the main reason for affinity groups and racial identity student centers on largely white campuses. They are a place for minority kids to find each other, form friendships and support groups and have the same opportunity to benefit from social networking as white kids have (simply because there are many more white kids available to each white student to form such relationships). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18359256010207436232015-12-19T16:37:52.572-05:002015-12-19T16:37:52.572-05:00Excellent comment, Anon 4:22. I know your point #...Excellent comment, Anon 4:22. I know your point #2 is based on a popular theory, but I wonder whether that theory is valid? Is there evidence that blacks (or other minorities) are more successful in college when they're surrounded by large numbers of like minorities? <br /><br />David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-55414507181008329642015-12-19T16:32:02.905-05:002015-12-19T16:32:02.905-05:00A propos of an earlier post, the New York Times Pu...A propos of an earlier post, the New York Times Public Editor has an excellent article about the screwup regarding Tashfeen Malik's supposed public messages about jihad on Facebook. See http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/new-york-times-san-bernardino-correction-margaret-sullivan-public-editor/?_r=0<br /><br />The article explains how the screwup occurred. The reporters' naivety would be funny if the false report didn't have serious consequences:<br /><br /><i>“Our sources misunderstood how social media works and we didn’t push hard enough,” said [executive editor Dean] Baquet, who read the article before publication. He said those sources apparently did not know the difference between public and private messages on social-media platforms.</i>David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.com