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Ethnonepotism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 26, 2021, 11:16 pm
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It's OK for admissions to be "white":
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-admissions-data-shows-america-030249515.html
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> America’s most elite colleges and universities really don’t
want the public to take a peek behind the curtain and get a
better understanding of who gets admitted and why. And it’s not
for the reasons you might think.
>
> The urban legend endures that any Latino or African-American
who applies to one of these ultra-selective schools can write
their own ticket. But the truth is, the people who get the
lion’s share of those tickets, who issue the tickets, and who,
in fact, run the ticket booth are white.
>
> The real pigs at the trough are white people who have
connections, make donations or otherwise encourage wealthy
alumni boosters to send more checks. T’was always thus.
>
> A new study proves what the relatively few students of color
who will ever have the chance to attend selective colleges and
universities have long suspected: Despite what people call
“imposter syndrome”—i.e., the insecurity that some Latinos and
African Americans feel about whether they deserve the
opportunities they’ve been afforded—they aren't imposters at
all. Far from it. Rather, they’re among the most deserving of
admission.
>
> The numbers show that, for the most part, students of color
had to work harder in high school to get into these elite
schools than white ones with hook-ups, deep pockets or alumni
pedigrees.
>
> Moreover, in many cases, this pattern will continue throughout
their entire professional lives. Merit only gets you so far.
> ...
> Researchers from Duke University, the University of Georgia,
and the University of Oklahoma dove into those documents and
analyzed something that looms large in the admissions process of
elite schools yet is rarely talked about: admissions preferences
for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the “dean’s interest
list” (read: donors), and children of faculty and staff—a group
collectively referred to by the unwieldy acronym of ALDC).
>
> Using data from the Harvard lawsuit on 166,727 U.S. applicants
to Harvard between 2009-2014, the professors did a good job of
breaking down who has been getting in and why they’ve been
getting in.
>
> According to their findings, more than 43 percent of the white
students admitted were ALDC. But the share for African
Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos was less than 16
percent. Furthermore, the research shows, roughly three-quarters
of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if not for their
ALDC status. Finally, eliminating preferences for athletes and
legacies would make the pool of admitted students much less
white.
>
> As a Mexican American who went to Harvard, I hear only one
thing in these findings: vindication.
>
> You see, Latino and African American students who go to
Harvard, or other highly selective college and universities,
tend to arrive on campus with a ringing in their ears. It’s the
sound they heard in high school of jealous white classmates
sniping that if they hadn’t been people of color, they wouldn’t
have gotten in.
> ...
> When I walked through Johnston Gate and into Harvard Yard in
the Fall of 1985, I was one of just 35 Mexican Americans in a
class of about 1,600 undergraduates. That’s only about 2
percent. Add in Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, Colombians and
others, and the total number of Latinos might have reached 5
percent.
>
> Most of us were straight-A valedictorians, student body
presidents, self-starters who had rocketed through high school
kicking ass and taking names.
>
> Meanwhile, 75 percent of Harvard’s student body was at that
point still white.
>
> Which reminds me of the second sound that people of color
often hear in our heads as we make our way through the college
experience. As we associate with our white classmates, it
sometimes occurs to us that some of these people aren’t all
that. A lot of them don’t seem that smart. They don’t spend a
lot of time in the library, and yet they walk around campus with
an impenetrable air of confidence. Indeed, some appear to have
simply skated through life with help from their parents, from
society, and ultimately from the admissions office.
>
> Now thanks to a very important study, my friends and I know
that we weren’t imagining things. There were, in fact, some
imposters on campus. And now we know who they were.
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To put it another way, Harvard's admissions policy is as
un-American as is its architecture:
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 3, 2022, 3:20 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/arab-refugees-see-double-standards-155541932.html
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> Watching European nations open their arms to hundreds of
thousands of Ukrainians in less than a week, the father of three
can't help but compare their fates.
>
> "We are wondering, why were Ukrainians welcome in all
countries while we, Syrian refugees, are still in tents and
remain under the snow, facing death, and no one is looking to
us?" he told Reuters in a refugee centre where 25 families are
sheltered on the edge of the Mediterranean city of Sidon.
>
> In the Arab world, where 12 million Syrians have been uprooted
by war, critics ranging from Hariri to activists and cartoonists
contrast the Western reaction to the refugee crisis triggered by
Russia's invasion of Ukraine with the way Europe sought to hold
back Syrian and other refugees in 2015.
>
> Some recalled images of refugees walking for days in harsh
weather, or losing lives in perilous sea crossings as they tried
to breach Europe's borders.
>
> On Monday, four days after Russia launched its attack, the
European Union said at least 400,000 refugees had entered the
bloc from Ukraine, which has land borders with four EU states.
>
> Millions more are expected and the EU is preparing measures
which would offer temporary residence permits as well as access
to employment and social welfare - a swift opening of its doors
at odds with its response to wars in Syria and elsewhere.
--- End Quote ---
Where are the usual voices complaining that flooding the market
with labour will lower wages, and that providing social services
to people who never paid taxes into the system is foolish? They
are suddenly all looking the other way now that the
beneficiaries are "whites".
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 4, 2022, 2:25 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/french-professor-drives-1-200-162911520.html
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> French professor drives 1,200 miles to offer his house to
Ukrainian refugees
>
> VYSNE NEMECKE, Slovakia (Reuters) - When Russia invaded
Ukraine last week French professor Yves Gineste didn't think
twice - he set off on a four-day drive to the eastern edge of
Slovakia to offer his Perpignan house to refugees.
>
> Bearing a cardboard sign seeking "One family for a house in
France, travel and house free", he registered with a charity at
Vysne Nemecke, a crossing on the Slovakia-Ukraine border.
>
> A few hours later he was helping 26-year-old manicurist Nastia
Kiselyova, along with a friend travelling with her daughter and
niece, load their belongings into his camper van prior to
heading back the around 2,000 km (1,200 miles) to southwest
France.
>
> On hearing of the invasion "I could not believe it," the
70-year-old, a professor in medical research who works six
months of the year at Kyoto University and normally rents the
Perpignan house out, told Reuters.
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There have been Afghan, Syrian and other refugees in and around
Slovakia for a long time. Why didn't Gineste offer his house to
any of them all this time?
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> "I decided to go immediately...It's an emergency. And in
emergency, we have to act, we have to respect our values. And my
value is that we are brothers."
--- End Quote ---
Answer: see the title of this topic.
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 5, 2022, 8:15 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/romanian-restaurant-serves-100-free-091500280.html
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> A Romanian restaurant serves up to 100 free meals a day to
Ukrainian refugees — its staff often break down in tears over
the escalating crisis
> ...
> In addition to providing free meals to Ukrainian refugees,
Cristea said she organized a donation of food cans, bottled
water, and packaged sweets for them. These efforts have been
matched with "hundreds or thousands of activities of this kind"
all across Romania, she added.
>
> "There are many that are doing more, especially in northern
Romania, where most of the Ukrainians arrived," Cristea said.
>
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Does anyone want to guess whether or not they treated Afghan
etc. refugees similarly? Does anyone want to guess why not?
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: SirGalahad
Date: March 5, 2022, 10:33 pm
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If we had been treating Muslim or “Middle Eastern” migrants like
this from the beginning, I would wager that there’d currently be
a lot less of the “extremism” and general exclusionary attitudes
that rightists accuse these migrants of. But as usual, rightists
prefer to unwittingly create the problem/feedback loop, and then
blame it on someone else.
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 8, 2022, 12:48 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Iax6MXr4M
Every country which has displayed this double-standard should be
populated 100% by "non-whites".
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 9, 2022, 10:48 pm
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HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-women-fleeing-war-welcome-162329555.html
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> VESZPREM, Hungary, March 9 (Reuters) - Two days after arriving
from the bombarded outskirts of Kyiv following a gruelling
journey, 24-year-old Ukrainian Olga Yasnopolska signed a
contract to work for a large German automotive parts supplier in
western Hungary.
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Meanwhile, "non-white" refugees are frequently prohibited from
getting jobs despite having been in a country for years.
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> Yasnopolska, who worked for the railways in Ukraine, said the
job contract gave her some sense of security.
>
> "It's a relief that we have somewhere to stay and now I have a
job, and we are in safety," she said, with a tired, faint smile.
--- End Quote ---
Translation: it's OK to be a "white" refugee.
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> She also hopes to find a job soon that will allow her to take
care of her baby.
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I am sure she will get one rather quickly. All the same people
who deliberately make life miserable for "non-whites" will go
out of their way to help her.
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> 'UKRAINIAN-FRIENDLY JOBS'
>
> In the wake of the European Union's 2015 migration crisis some
eastern members, led by Poland and Hungary, refused to take in
people fleeing war and poverty, saying an influx from Africa and
the Middle East would threaten their Christian traditions.
>
> But hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians had been working in
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic even before the current
exodus.
>
> Since last year, companies across the manufacturing,
information technology and construction sectors in the region
have been jostling to attract employees as their economies
rebounded fast from the COVID-19 induced slump.
>
> Czech job vacancies climbed to a record high of nearly 364,000
in February. Romanian vacancies reached 45,600 in the fourth
quarter of 2021, up by 10,000 in annual terms.
>
> In Poland, which has been a top destination for Ukrainian
workers for years and has received more than 1.3 million
refugees since the war began, employers reported 116,500 job
vacancies in February.
>
> Work agencies and companies are now hoping to tap into the
large pool of refugees, trying to arrange accommodation for
Ukrainian workers' family members and their children.
--- End Quote ---
None of which they did with "non-white" refugees.
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> "This 1 million women with children is in reality about half a
million people who can actually enter the workforce and the
Polish economy will be able to absorb them easily within a few,
three or four months," said Krzysztof Inglot of the Employers of
Poland Association.
--- End Quote ---
You did not say this when the refugees were "non-white".
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> BestJobs, a Romanian recruitment platform with 32,000 open
positions, has introduced a "Ukrainian friendly jobs" tag.
>
> Jitka Souckova, marketing director of Grafton Recruitment in
Prague, said there were many jobs in manufacturing or logistics,
where Ukrainians could work even without speaking Czech.
--- End Quote ---
Yet the frequently stated reason for not letting "non-white"
refugees get jobs was because they were not fluent in the local
language. Supposedly, a worker lacking fluency in the local
language would endanger the other workers in case of fire
hazards and other emergencies. What happened to all that?
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> Gabor Berta, head of the Man at Work temp agency office in
Veszprem, through which Yasnopolska found her job, said the
biggest problem was finding accommodation for all the Ukrainian
workers they have placed and their families.
--- End Quote ---
Meanwhile, many "non-white" refugees are still living in tents,
and the camps are bulldozed once every few months.
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> "This situation is different," he said. "Here you cannot say
to the Ukrainian employee that 'I am sorry I have too many
workers now', or 'sorry we need to halt production, please can
you go home'. Now, they cannot go home."
--- End Quote ---
You say all of this just fine to "non-whites". The situation is
certainly different when the refugees are "whites'.
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: rp
Date: March 12, 2022, 11:38 am
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Its okay to be a "White" country (according to the EU leaders):
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> #EU leaders have given Ukraine the green light to move towards
the EU membership.
>
> This is a united signal of support to #Ukraine.
>
> Ukraine belongs to the European family.
> [img width=1280
height=853]
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>
> #StandWithUkraine
>
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Meanwhile, Turkey, a NATO ally, has yet to receive EU
membership.
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 12, 2022, 9:12 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLtZon5fHE
Do Afghan refugees get this also? Why not?
See also:
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Re: Ethnonepotism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 13, 2022, 9:29 pm
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Commenters are beginning to get it:
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> I wish he were as concerned for Brown children still
incarcerated at the southern border of the US! I doubt he even
considered doing anything for them!
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> Shame this New Jersey Mayor doesn't involved himself to the
same level as he has in Ukraine, with people all over the world
going through War. But that's just lucky for the ukrainians that
he was paying attention to their plight.
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> I'll bet the Haitians wish they got treated like this.
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> Did he also go to Syria?
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