enlightenupper
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enlightenupper
@enlightenupper
Pragmatic not dogmatic. East bay sports, local and national politics, Go 🐻s
Katılım Mart 2018
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If this is real and I think it is this is the most idiotic promo I’ve ever seen in sports. I like Raven Johnson. But to not put Caitlin Clark on every graphic for every Fever game is literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Like would you ever promote a Lakers game without LeBron? Spurs without Wemby? OKC without SGA? It’s so intentional I can’t wrap my brain around it. How can this league be so god damn stupid? #caitlin
WNBA@WNBA
Do not disturb, the W is on today 😏 The @LVAces visit the @AtlantaDream for a must-watch matchup at 1:30pm/ET on NBC and Peacock. Then, the @seattlestorm face-off against the @IndianaFever at 6pm/ET on NBCSN and Peacock.
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@TDHBXG Perhaps these scholars were arguing over that very topic
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Robby Soave@robbysoave
If you don't live in Navy Yard you can't imagine how bad things have gotten. I wouldn't have believed it without witnessing it. But it's now semi-common to see hordes of marauding teenagers fighting each other. A sad fate for a formerly nice neighborhood.
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@peachnamedgizmo @h0va4lyfe There’s plenty of data
You’re just too ignorant to understand it
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@h0va4lyfe I know what they’re claiming, it’s stupid; there’s no data to support it when Asians are #2 behind white people in Ivy admissions. Complaining about 40 black students in the entire med school when there are 160 Asians despite being a smaller % of the pop is thinly veiled racism
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Why are yall always specifically singling out black candidates against Asians? Yall got rid of affirmative action & still complaining
AAGHarmeetDhillon@AAGDhillon
At Yale Medical School, a black applicant is 29 times more likely to be invited to interview than an Asian with equally strong academics. Today, @CivilRights told Yale that its use of race in admissions is ILLEGAL—and that @TheJusticeDept will step in to enforce Title VI. justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
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@peachnamedgizmo You think schools stopped discriminating against Asians because of the AA ruling?
That’s cute 😂
Ignorance is bliss
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@NYCMayor Zero word when people you don’t like are victims of discrimination
Helluva double standard you got, mayor hypocrite
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I am aware of the disturbing incident targeting worshippers during Friday prayers outside the Baitul Mamur Mosque in Brooklyn, where a man praying was struck with an egg.
That hateful act is unacceptable and an affront to the values that define us as New Yorkers.
My administration is committed to rooting out anti-Muslim hate in all its forms and ensuring every New Yorker can live and worship in safety and dignity. The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating this incident.
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@Heccles94 How about these guys doing this right outside a Jewish high school?
You’d agree this is bullying?
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MichaelRapaport@MichaelRapaport
I’m really hoping this becomes a trend, all girls Catholic school next, all girls schools all over NYC. Normalize men praying outside girls schools in the 5 boroughs, this is totally cool and regular degular
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6% of the UK is Muslim.
This is bullying a minority group, pure and simple.
It’s gross, despicable racism.
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@thejaewilliams So why don’t Asians get the same benefit of the doubt with “intangibles” in the NBA?
Especially if the numbers don’t tell the whole story?
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The Yale medical school discourse is interesting because MCAT & GPA are only part of a med school application. Raw numbers don’t show who will be a better physician. We see this in sports all the time, a QB having more passing yards doesn’t mean they’re the better quarterback.
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The idea that all Asian applicants come from a “privileged“ background, and that they wouldn’t benefit from a focus on background is both inaccurate and racist. In fact when California banned racial preferences by referendum in 1996 and people said why don’t they use socio economic diversity instead, the answer the UC schools gave was that their data showed that the biggest beneficiaries of socioeconomic preferences would be poor Chinese immigrants
Dr Terry Simpson@drterrysimpson
I understand why many Asian families feel frustrated in elite admissions systems. In intensely competitive environments, there is a real perception — and sometimes evidence — that exceptional academic performance still does not guarantee admission. That feeling should not be dismissed. But admissions committees also confront another reality: if you have 100 applicants from privileged, high-performing educational pipelines with nearly identical scores, resumes, research access, tutoring, and opportunities, it is not irrational to also value the applicant who achieved similar academic success despite poverty, instability, underfunded schools, family hardship, or lack of institutional advantages. That is not abandoning merit. It is recognizing that achievement exists in context. And medicine especially is not merely selecting expert test takers. It is selecting future physicians who will care for human beings across every class, culture, language, and circumstance in society. The irony is that many people who defend “objective merit” often become deeply uncomfortable the moment merit is evaluated in anything broader than a percentile ranking.
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@drterrysimpson So now you’re using a strawman
You assume they’re all privileged with nearly identical scores?
Wrong
We’re seeing equally or less privileged Asians with better scores missing out on spots
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I understand why many Asian families feel frustrated in elite admissions systems. In intensely competitive environments, there is a real perception — and sometimes evidence — that exceptional academic performance still does not guarantee admission.
That feeling should not be dismissed.
But admissions committees also confront another reality: if you have 100 applicants from privileged, high-performing educational pipelines with nearly identical scores, resumes, research access, tutoring, and opportunities, it is not irrational to also value the applicant who achieved similar academic success despite poverty, instability, underfunded schools, family hardship, or lack of institutional advantages.
That is not abandoning merit. It is recognizing that achievement exists in context.
And medicine especially is not merely selecting expert test takers. It is selecting future physicians who will care for human beings across every class, culture, language, and circumstance in society.
The irony is that many people who defend “objective merit” often become deeply uncomfortable the moment merit is evaluated in anything broader than a percentile ranking.
Yiatin Chu@ycinnewyork
The same has been felt by Asians when applying to selective colleges for decades. We knew our children had to accomplish way above others to earn the limited spots Ivy+ were willing to give us. The SFFA v Harvard case revealed the extent of the discrimination. Even with SCOTUS ruling that affirmative action is unconstitutional, medical schools like UCLA and Yale continue to evade. Thank goodness @CivilRights @AAGDhillon are pursuing them to comply.
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Why isnt Caitlin Clark been awarded her 2 assist yet... the hell with gambling purposes... that 30 pt 10 assist would've been her 2nd one and would be WNBA history as she's the only player to do it 2x...do what's right and credit her 2 assist she EARNED @WNBA @CathyEngelbert
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In September of 2017 Racist slurs were found outside the rooms of 5 black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
Written on the message board in black marker was "go home N*gger""
Liberal outrage was nationwide and intense. "A shocking act of racism"
High Profile Politicians like Joe Biden and John McCain loudly condemned it as every news outlet in the country spread it.
2 Months later it turned out to be one of the black cadets who wrote the message.
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I was shocked at the thuggery I witnessed at the Tommy Robinson rally:
-A man struck a young girl on the head with a baseball bat and then raped her with the bat.
-Men nailed a girl's tongue to a block of wood while they raped her.
-One man used a pump to expand a girl's anus, then subjected her to gang rape by 6 men. At one point 4 men were inside her at once.
-Men burned their names into the skin of girls they raped.
-Girls were burned with boiling water, beaten with dog chains and forced to drink urine.
-One man got a 12 year old pregnant, then burned her house down, killing her, her unborn child, her disabled sister and her mother.
-A girl who'd been raped by multiple men was stabbed to death and her body dumped in a canal.
-A 15 year old girl who'd been gang raped was injected with heroin by a 50 year old man to kill her.
Oh wait - that wasn't at the Tommy Robinson rally. Those were crimes committed by predominantly Pakistani Muslim gangs, with the acquiescence of the people calling today's protesters "far-right thugs".
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a Tom Steyer campaign staffer is the one that leaked the video of Katie Porter screaming at a staffer.
Steyer spokesperson, Kevin Liao was an employee of the Department of Energy in charge of filming, editing, and posting the recorded segment.
I hope you’re sitting down, but Katie Porter claims she is now the victim and is looking for an ethics investigation…
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If you ever want to see an Islamist caught in a blatant lie in real time, then watch this.
@mehdirhasan stands on a stage and begins his speech filled with complete garbage and deliberately misquoted and false statements. He knew his audience are none the wiser, and he does this every single time he opens his mouth. He is a serial bullshitter followed by a legion of simpleminded stupid people.
But then along comes @HausdorffMedia who is the polar opposite of a simpleminded stupid person, well spoken, brilliant, educated, intelligent, and most importantly, HONEST.
And she graciously and masterfully crushes Mehdi’s lies by referencing the quotes accurately and correctly word for word.
More lies are told in a day by the pro Palestine movement than there are grains of sand on Earth and stars in the universe. And all I can say, with gratitude, is thank G-d that we have people like Natasha to counter the tsunami of lies of the Mehdi’s of this world.
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The woke scolds are absolutely terrified.
If The Odyssey bombs because of woke casting….
if Christopher fucking Nolan, the most bankable director in Hollywood - a guy who made a billion dollars from a biopic that was mostly a court procedural - can’t get away with it anymore, then no one can.
A public catastrophe of this scale crushes them politically, because at the end of the day, culture is driven by money.
Sports Illustrated and Victoria’s Secret casted fat, bald models until it became clear that they had destroyed their profitability and brand cachet doing so. Then they came to their senses.
If Christopher Nolan can’t get away with woke, anti-white male casting - it will be a sea change. Wokeness will become cancer to profitability. And every one of their unpopular, deranged causes will be dropped like a deformed Spartan baby into the Aegean.
The message will be sent. It will be like Charles Martel defeating the Umayyad invasion of Aquitaine at the Battle of Tours.
Woke stops here.
The Odyssey must fail. Humiliatingly, catastrophically so. Their spirits must be crushed. The only thing anyone must remember about this epic boondoggle is Elliot Page and Lupita Nyongo being epically miscast, and everyone losing a fuckton of money as a result. If even Chris Nolan can’t rescue woke, every woke opinion leader is out on their ass. And we will be, like Christianity in a Caliphate-besieged Europe in 732, so back.
PJ Underwood Covers the Waterfront #Indiginerd@SeptonFratelli
The discourse around The Odyssey has been interesting because it’s revealed who’s studied the Homeric epics vs who’s influenced by popular renditions of the texts. So let’s clear up a few things…🧵/1
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British Patriot 🇬🇧
"Every saturday since October 7th there's been palestine protests, Kier Starmer has never said a word - in the past 48 hours he has stopped speakers from coming here to speak, why is that? I thought we had free speech."
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Indiana Fever Head Coach Stephanie White didn’t give Caitlin Clark love for her brilliant 4th quarter performance vs the Mystics after a tough start, but gave Kelsey Mitchell TONS of love in a similar circumstance last season…
Sucks to lose, but this is a bad look.
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