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  1. Did you really think everyone would just forget the historical factoid we learned only one year ago?
  2. Rhule has now lost 20 consecutive games to ranked teams. What a spectacular fall from being the hottest name in coaching.
  3. Can't spell Citrus without UT /spurrier
  4. That's actually just another reason it'sannoying when athletes do that stupid stuff. They're the ones injecting religion into sports and I'd rather just watch and discuss sports. If he hadn't done that then we wouldn't be wasting our time on it.
  5. Texas A&M people making fun of other people for playing dress-up will never not be funny.
  6. 12-team playoff teams with byes now 0-5.
  7. Oh God no, not Somalis! It's the little things that give away when someone's brain is run by their amygdala.
  8. I joke about it but some fans genuinely can't grasp that the players on their favorite teams are actual people and might possibly be talking about something else in their life other than the sport they watch.
  9. Thanks for pointing out one of the dumber parts of the essay where the author reveals he thought the world was a race- and gender-blind meritocracy up until 2014.
  10. You seem extremely well-equipped to discuss population level trends. I look forward to more of your masterful deductive reasoning.
  11. If there's one thing I love it's torturing analogies. So here's my take. That analogy is really good if we stipulate that the white guys had received golf lessons since they were 6 thanks to their affluent upbringing while the rest of the entrants had not received any lessons and had only played enough golf to register an official handicap. So they thought they were entering a "fair" competition where they could pretend that everyone had an even shot and ignore their tremendous structural advantage. Now that the playing field is leveled they are aggrieved. There, that enough torture?
  12. Correct. As is his wont, Vegas64 missed the point. No white cohort lost a percentage of the pie; the age group that had it still has it, the age group that doesn't have it never had it. That justifiably creates resentment, but that resentment is being aimed at the wrong people as we all agree.
  13. "Reverse discrimination" and "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" are both basic vocabulary. People inject their feelings into terms and then turn them into negative buzz words. So if you're waiting for people to find words that have no emotional charge to them you're going to die first. You literally can't get any more basic than those.
  14. I read the essay, @Bozo_Casanova, and this thread would be a lot better off if you admitted that your emotions are affecting your performance on this thread as much or more than anyone else's. The piece is wholly unsurprising because of course entrenched power isn't going to yield their personal piece of the pie, they're going to rig the numbers to hopefully make appearances perfect specifically so their piece of the pie is unthreatened. In the places where the author focuses on that he makes some decent arguments. But it also includes a whole lot of self-indulgent whining for someone who is hoping to be thought-provoking about an actually serious issue. Here are three of the subjects of his piece, and we know that by being selected for inclusion in this essay they are people whom the author believes to be excellent examples of the issue he's discussing. 1. Andrew the Reporter. He started in the journalism world in 2015. Times were tough, he could never make it. It was a battle, how could someone survive with so much rejection? Oh yeah, he made senior reporter in 2023. Damn, tough life when you have to work 8 years to get to a senior level. 2. James the Academic. We read three paragraphs about James, fully expecting that we will learn of the unfair ways that he, like others, has been rejected despite his qualifications. So what happened with James? He applied twice then gave up. 3. Matt the Film Guy. This guy literally told the story that he didn't even bother applying for Sundance and then noted that because of this entrenched discrimination he had to actually work to become good at what he does instead of his plan to be mediocre and succeed anyway. Holy shit. Now some of the later stuff Matt deals with seems unfair, but this relates to a key reason why the essay overall is completely non-persuasive. These two paragraphs give it all away. The author is operating from a belief that the way the world was in 2014 was based on meritocracy but that afterward as white males were systematically oppressed, this was the moment that the United States abandoned meritocracy. He believes that meritocracy results in fields dominated by white men. That is obviously, as you'll agree, completely laughable. So why do you expect people to take this essay more seriously than the author took it? It's true that there is a shift that disproportionately affects white men under 45 more than their older peers. There's a real story there, but this guy loses the plot early and often, including throwing around so many percentages hoping to scare innumerate people while never even providing the baseline - about 30% of the American population are white males. Some of the numbers seem concerning, but then he posts this as a problem: What the actual fuck? Those 2024 numbers look, you know. pretty damn good if we're only worried about sex and race. Other than being too white still. On the other hand, as I've alluded to several times, there is a serious issue hidden here that the author completely swings and misses at. Or more accurately completely loses focus on. I would actually appreciate a much better written piece on this, and I'm thinking that some of your frustration with the reaction here is because the posters are reacting to this C- essay and not to the actual thoughts that you have in your head, but you're conflating the two. Perhaps Jacob Savage's ultimate failures in his writing career may have multiple causes. - Edited to add that my post here isn't that well-written either because it's an internet post. I meant but forgot to include that he had a winning and persuasive argument when he focused on the extremely low percentages within the millennial cohort. The issue is that generation and how, no, it's not good that only 5-10% of industries are represented by a demographic that is 30% of the population.
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