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[larryc]

[sternly] DNFTT

[rodentmind]

To golden apple... Your claim to fame is that you apparently are a master of English writing (Nevermind the fact that you have nothing to say).

Blogs are different than your ivory tower writing exercises. We can use ellipses, miss use the language if we like, and even abbreviations.

Goldenapple = flaming narcissist

You undermine your own credibility here by not knowing the difference between a blog and a discussion forum.  You undermine it even further by refusing to use proper punctuation and spelling, which is a requirement of the terms of use for this academic forum.

I certainly have difficulty discerning between an unwillingness and an inability to follow these writing conventions.

Diversity nuts to you,

Pocky

I rather liked "miss use" for "misuse."

I can't believe this thread continues to grow apace.

Meanwhile, I am grateful to beacon1 for continuing to entertain and to Pocky for explaining so succinctly why beacon1's whingeing balderdash is so entertaining.

[femaestro]

WOW!!!!!

You need to realize that there is enough bias to go around.  Someone won't hire you because you are fat, ugly, female, black, white, male, stupid, racist, hot, remind-them-of-their-mother, whatever the case may be... Everyone has a bias.  Me I hate stupid people. However, because you represent the majority, and the majority is doing the hiring, firing, whatever... you probably will get a job somewhere.  Whereas, the majority needs to be reminded of the presence of others, that is why they have these practices. 

No Asian American teachers means that the information being distributed does not reflect all views, the more knowledge shared, the more knowledge gained.  Thus, don't be angry, but be enlightened.  You live in a country that wants to involve all voices...well except yours, no one wants to hear your opinion, it's kinda' racist, or Pat Robertson's for that matter (not that were even talking about him, but i digress)...

[onion]

Zombie thread comes back to life!!!!!

Arm the townspeople!

[chuljoon1973]

The white male in formal institutions has by his own decision making has undermined his own place within it. A lot of the "nuts and bolts" that goes on within formal institutions are passed down to the white female. That is a form of political correctness, a signal from the top - that the Aryan man doesnt want to appear sexist.
Now we have in place of the white male, the white female- The processes and procedures are then implemented in such a way that the end result is either shoddy or fits poorly, very rarely, have I met truly professional woman who can walk it and talk it in a way that that doesn't leave subordinates and colleagues reeling.
 
The incompetence of the white male has been replaced with the inappropriate hormonal instinct of the "modern" white female - things are more chaotic now- for sure! I would not leave my business interests with a female - full stop (irrespective of her race), this is not sexism this common sense. Even females who have MBA's need supportive supervision from a male who knows his business.

My experience has been that the white male refuses to listen and acknowledge the finer, and arguably important details in work based, formal situations, they are inept at that, that is something I have come across at all levels, senior manager to supervisor. On the other hand, white woman over compensate on the finer details and forget the big picture, so a lot of their input becomes totally irrelevant.
 
White man is ape like and thinks in a binary manner, white woman is emotion driven, with no ability to think with foresight. Both think, primarily with their sexual genitalia. That I guess is what freedom in the west is about.

White people are generally stupid full stop. Hardly surprising that white history is filled with colonialism, Nazism, KKK, slavery, mass murder, rape, burnings, cultural destruction and bastardization. His failings with Japan in WW2 and the mass murder of the Red Indians, and the Aborigines should not be forgotten. Fail, fail, fail.

I am glad I am not a white male.

What I find somewhat amusing is white man's hypocrisy and guilt. The white man in the modern age, has suddenly decided that he should feel guilty about his misdemeanour's to "alien" (negroid, Mongoloid) cultures.

He has decided in his binary wisdom to favour the black male and brown skinned male over other minorities, setting the very same people against each other, by creating friction, mongoloid man fights the negroid man and the white man can sit back and enjoy the show, he can absolve himself of any wrong doing. The other evil and cunning strategy is achieved by an uneven application of social policy, this then means that accessing resources and the distribution of them is limited and finite, unless you are a member of an ethnic minority that the white man feels guilty about. If the white man feels no guilt then its simple- "get to the back of the line!".

White man has set himself up and of course other ethnic minorities have to pay for it as a result, white man and the notion of blame on ethnic people/s is a proven partnership, like guns and bullets, petrol and matches, violence and mayhem and bacon on rye.

Consider political correctness - conceived by two University Professors at an American Ivy League University in the 1970's. Political correctness on the surface seems quite innocuous, but really it is a tool for creating moral panic (at best), but the reality is that it has exacerbated racial, sexist friction more- that was the idea (the latter not the former), to attempt to make white people to feel ashamed of their culture, because aspects of it are deemed unacceptable to other cultures residing in their country. It totally obvious that if you attempt to quell cultural norms, traditions, and ways then people will object and the very opposite results. This is very crafty and cunning of the white man. PC has been one of the main causes of British Nationalist Party accruing more political ground.

White man eats pork (sickening, vile "meat" and not accepted in the true bible), but white man has re written the bible (so its ok to eat pork now), all of the mathematics and academic scholars are white, all of the ingenuity in the world is down to the white man, soon karate will have been invented by the white man, and of course curry never came from India it originated somewhere in Texas.

When will the white male stop offending the rest of the world, perhaps when he learns to regain control of his woman.

[larryc]

DNFTT.

[yellowtractor]

(night has fallen)

(barricading self into farmhouse)

[prof_smartypants]

When will the white male stop offending the rest of the world, perhaps when he learns to regain control of his woman.

I'm making this my signature line.

[post_functional]

DNFTT.

Don't worry; it was TLDNR.

[rchill]

Well, chuljoon1973 has certainly proven that bigotry comes in all shapes, colors and sexes. You do seem a bit insecure in your opinion though - hiding behind a moniker makes your comments seem a bit shallow (just my opinion mind you).
femaestro - it would be great if all we had to do was hired a diversity of people to get a diversity of ideas. Not so simple as that I fear.
Like it or not, we are all biased/bigoted on some level. It is not our natural inclination to discriminate that is the problem. The problem lies in our inability/lack of desire to see it in ourselves, and then keep it in check. It's the "you did it to me, so I get to do it to you now" mentality.
There is job competition, period. Decisions must be made, period. If two candidates have equal qualifications regarding education and experience, then the next step has to be other criteria, and diversity in the workplace is a valid one (again, just my opinion). I like diversity (the idea of a bunch of mini-me's to work with? The stuff nightmares are made of!). That may mean I lose out in the job competition, so be it. Life ain't fair - deal.

[jonesey]

Kill it with fire!  Kill it with fire!

[francishamit]

Well I just spent over an hour read this entire thread.  Thanks for the laughs.  Let me put the cat firmly in among the pigeons (and you know who you are).  How do you folks feel about American military veterans in Academia?  Now there is a disadvantaged minority, regardless of race.

Admittedly this one of my personal hobbyhorses, since I am one and caught considerable grief for it in graduate school (apparently one's intellectual curiosity should not extend to military service in a combat zone).  However, the question is not about me, but the new generations of recent service who are still feeling the sting of "psycho veteran" meme perpetuated in popular culture durng the Vietnam War (which has been over for quite some time now.) 

I offered, some time ago, to set up a remainder trust from my estate, to fund a scholarship for American veterans who otherwise met the admission standards for a certain graduate program in Creative Writing.  Given the number of women who now serve, you can't argue this really favors males and given that the US Military has more minorities than the society at large, you can't argue that it doesn't meet AA goals. 

The response, so far, has been a deafening silence from a program that is hitting up its graduates for money to fund scholarships for all new students in the program.  On their terms, of course. 

I'm all for paying forward, but there does seem to be the stink of unacceptable prejudice here.  So I've dropped the idea.  Either way, I'm not putting money behind this idea.  I'll look elsewhere.

And please don't say "thank you for your service".  That bit of rhetoric has become the equivalent of that famous Californiaism "Have a Nice Day".    It's a group of formal null sounds, seldom carrying any shred of sincerity.       

[jonesey]

I offered, some time ago, to set up a remainder trust from my estate, to fund a scholarship for American veterans who otherwise met the admission standards for a certain graduate program in Creative Writing.  Given the number of women who now serve, you can't argue this really favors males and given that the US Military has more minorities than the society at large, you can't argue that it doesn't meet AA goals. 

The response, so far, has been a deafening silence from a program that is hitting up its graduates for money to fund scholarships for all new students in the program.  On their terms, of course. 

Shoot me a PM; I'm on the board of a non-profit that's trying to create scholarships for military vets to attend creative writing programs, among other things.  You are just the kind of person I'm trying to get in contact with.  : )

[yellowtractor]

(preparing cauldrons of flaming pitch; manning battlements)

[guinness4life]

I offered, some time ago, to set up a remainder trust from my estate, to fund a scholarship for American veterans who otherwise met the admission standards for a certain graduate program in Creative Writing.  Given the number of women who now serve, you can't argue this really favors males and given that the US Military has more minorities than the society at large, you can't argue that it doesn't meet AA goals.  

The response, so far, has been a deafening silence from a program that is hitting up its graduates for money to fund scholarships for all new students in the program.  On their terms, of course.  

Shoot me a PM; I'm on the board of a non-profit that's trying to create scholarships for military vets to attend creative writing programs, among other things.  You are just the kind of person I'm trying to get in contact with.  : )

I'm not reading any of the rest of this thread since many responses on this page seemed somewhat bizarre, so if this is out-of-context, *shrugs*. The military bit was the only thing that caught my attention.

Except for a 15 minute or so period after 9/11, colleges are pretty flagrantly anti-military, despite the fact the military is primarily 1) poor 2) African-American. I suspect this is mostly the still-rampant university classism masquerading as a half-dozen other -ism's. I digress.

The only places that really give returned military personnel a fair shake are community colleges and some regionally-oriented public colleges. Even then, the military transcripts and transfer credits are a huge problem. My friend is dealing with this at his Master's in Counseling program. He's into counseling vets (and is one himself). Honestly, absolutely no one cares about vets in colleges except the trauma people, who see vets as human guinea pigs for proving their PTSD theory of the week.

Believe it or not, Walmart, which I otherwise more or less hate, funds a lot of programs for troops through the Walmart Foundation. You may want to follow their contributions. The biggest one last year was to ACE, though TWF donated directly to some Veteran's Affairs dep'ts too. You'll only find certain schools receptive to that kind of thing. Again, mostly public and CC-ish. A lot in California, too. Private schools are unilaterally prejudiced against military personnel. They probably won't take your money if you earmark it for anything like that. You may want to contact one of these folks or the Veteran's Affairs office at a school that received grant funds from either the Walmart Foundation or ACE (some received both). Here's a list of some other programs that may be of interest.

http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/CLLL/first_stop/military/practices.htm

Hope that helps!