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Huckleberry

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  1. "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.
  2. 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.
  3. True, but Ewers was a rookie in his first start, Tagovailoa is a 6th year player in his 5th year of starter reps. I don't know more than anyone else if Ewers will become a productive NFL QB but if you have a 1st game rookie showing no noticeable difference with your 5th year starter then the answer is obvious on who should get the PT. We'll see if there's still no noticeable difference when the season ends.
  4. And we've learned here that if you believe it to be true due to your personal anecdote then we all need to take you seriously. If it helps, I'm not white and I would respond to the essay author with "tough shit, life isn't fair." Just like my mom dealt with being discriminated against her entire life as a Latina.
  5. Yes, Zuhn is a known moron.
  6. It doesn't have to be political at all. If Vince Young himself had the attendee record that Cruz does I would hope that UT would tell him he's the absolute fucking man and we love him, but why doesn't he catch our games from the comfort of his couch and this experimental 96" 16K TV we had the engineering department make for him.
  7. No, you're the one who listens to a few songs that are played on HIT MUSIC TOP 40 BILLBOARD COUNTDOWN ALL YOUR HITS ARE HERE WITH CASEY KASEM radio stations and thinks you know rap music. This latest exchange just reinforces that you're someone who thinks you know things but has no clue how limited your experience really is.
  8. That bitch ass shows up to every big game in Texas he can and then hides hoping for a win. He is a thin-skinned punk who is genuinely bothered by the fact he's a known bad luck charm and hopes for a win every time not because he cares about the Texas-based team, but because he wants to post shit online showing that they won even when he's there. I mean we know of a winning percentage somewhere in the teens at best, based on how much he hides where he goes I'm starting to think he has been there every single time a Texas team loses to an out-of-state team since 2013.
  9. Agreed, for some reason it's hard for college coaches in the playoff era to understand that style points don't mean shit anymore. Win the game and move to next week. I guess I shouldn't say "for some reason" considering we all realize it's because they're meatheads, but you know what I mean. Lanning was coaching tonight like he was trying to secure a playoff berth with more points. The bracket is set, dipshit. Just win.
  10. I have to admit, I now almost cared a little more about the actual result of the bowl game because if we beat Michigan we should finish ranked higher than A&M. Then I realize the chucklefuck AP voters will still just sort by losses and we won't.
  11. I appreciate that you're no longer trying to pretend you're not an A&M guy. Oh wait, are you still doing that?
  12. At this point I wish JMU had beaten Louisville because I think 10-seed JMU wins at Kyle Field today.
  13. James Madison has scored as many points in the first 10 minutes at Autzen as A&M scored at home in the entire game.
  14. Yeah this Knight kid at RB is a good player
  15. Oregon in real Oregon colors, but they had to trick up the helmet a bit. If they were wearing the old school yellow UO helmet this would be their best uniform.
  16. I'm not sure that the JMU game will be worse. They were better than Tulane this season. Tulane was easily the most overrated team in the CFP rankings if you compare to solid computer systems. Now that doesn't mean that it won't get ugly, but JMU was the better team this season of those two.
  17. Not that there's enough brain power in the committee room for this to register, but this game is exhibit A in why sorting by losses is stupid. Manny Diaz was right, Duke is better than Tulane.
  18. As mentioned before, I believe all conference champions should be in the playoffs because that's what playoffs are supposed to be. The FCS has 24 teams and so should the FBS with all conference champions getting a bid. And if it did, the riff raff would mostly get ejected the first weekend anyway. Here's this year: First Round: (Games the week after conference championships and bracket announcement) #24 Kennesaw State @ #9 Alabama #23 Western Michigan @ #10 Miami #22 Boise St. @ #11 Notre Dame #21 Duke @ #12 BYU #20 James Madison @ #13 Texas #19 Tulane @ #14 Vanderbilt #18 Michigan @ #15 Utah #17 Arizona @ #16 USC Second Round: (Games the following week so essentially this weekend in the calendar) KSU/Bama winner @ #8 Oklahoma WMU/Miami winner @ #7 Texas A&M BSU/ND winner @ #6 Ole Miss Duke/BYU winner @ #5 Oregon JMU/UT winner @ #4 Texas Tech TU/Vandy winner @ #3 Georgia MICH/UU winner @ #2 Ohio St. UA/USC winner @ #1 Indiana Then a bracket from there. Yes I know it won't happen. But it should and if it did then the low level teams everyone is whining about would already be done by the week we're watching now. It also gives every top 16 seed a home playoff game before the bowls kick in. And home playoff games are awesome, well except if you're an OU or A&M fan. Ha.
  19. The G6 absolutely belongs up and until the moment the power conferences stop being bitches and split off into their own competition. If you're going to claim to be running a playoff for a league, then every league member should have a path to winning the championship at the beginning of every season.
  20. Another excellent fact for the arsenal. Texas has played 5 and will end up playing 6.
  21. You didn't say he "could" have scored. Certainly he could have scored, but he would have had to make at least one tackler miss. Your claim was that he walks it in if he runs which is breathtakingly stupid. I mean you can accuse others of not "knowing ball" because that might work with the meatheads you hang out with. But it doesn't even take knowing football well to see that he would have had a difficult time scoring there, it only requires a functioning pair of eyes.
  22. I, too, am foregoing the 2026 NFL draft.
  23. Nope. Miami was in zone, particularly underneath with their backers and #18's stunt would have pushed him very wide to the left. There is absolutely no guarantee he scores if he runs and they had no timeouts. The terrible throw was the problem.
  24. This is fantastic
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