Liberal ‘Feeling’ vs. Knowing

[PoliticalChic]

Now......what is the result of this brilliant plan by Liberals, to replace merit with melanin????

Good for minority students who are pushed into schools where aren't ready to compete????





3. The following, from Atlantic Magazine, is predictive of what we ill see when the new SAT ‘adversity score’ becomes pro forma.

“Affirmative action in university admissions started in the late 1960s as a noble effort to jump-start racial integration and foster equal opportunity…. a regime of racial preferences at almost all selective schools -- preferences so strikingly large and politically unpopular that administrators work hard to conceal them. The largest, most aggressive preferences are usually reserved for upper-middle-class minorities on whom they often inflict significant academic harm,…


The single biggest problem in this system -- a problem documented by a vast and growing array of research -- is the tendency of large preferences to boomerang and harm their intended beneficiaries. Large preferences often place students in environments where they can neither learn nor compete effectively -- even though these same students would thrive had they gone to less competitive but still quite good schools.” The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action



The motivation may be good…..but the outcome is tragic.


That's what happens when feeling passes for knowing.

"White Privilege Card Now Good For 10% Off At Whole Foods
July 16th, 2019

U.S.—According to a representative for the official White Privilege rewards program, every Caucasian person's White Privilege Card is now good for a full 10% off at participating Whole Foods locations.

The cards, which are given out to every white person at birth, have always been good for many societal benefits, but at long last allow white people to enjoy a discounted shopping experience at their favorite overpriced grocery store.

"Simply bring your purchases to the register and present your official white privilege card, and we'll provide a discount on your entire purchase," a spokesperson for the grocery store said. "And don't try to borrow a white friend's card—we'll be able to tell if you try to pull one over on us."

At publishing time, the rewards program had also confirmed the card will be good for a free pancake plate at IHOP and $5 off your next oil change at Walmart."
White Privilege Card Now Good For 10% Off At Whole Foods

 

[PoliticalChic]

1.One of the reasons well meaning persons tend toward support of Democrats/Liberals is that most of us want good outcomes for everyone. The problem is allowing ‘visions of sugar plums to dance in their heads.’

Liberals do this: they imagine rosy outcomes, sans the commensurate problems the ‘feeling’ will cause. Socialism paying for everything, not considering the theft from earners to pay for same, or forcing NINJA loans to folks who cannot afford to own homes, or minorities leaping from lack of achievements to the top of their graduating classes in the best universities…..if we just ‘install’ them in same.

My pal, Bushy, posted about the new SAT ‘adversity’ plan to do just that: SAT Turns Racist...Black to Have an “Adversity Score”





Today, an explanation of why that plan is wrong for achievers, for non-achievers, and even for Liberals.



2. Government, especially those on the Left, fail because they do not understand human nature. Pamphleteer Thomas Paine said What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly. This is certainly true where skin color becomes a substitute for study habits.




“At present, thanks to racial preferences, many black high school students know that they don’t need to put in as much scholarly effort as non-“students of color” to be admitted to highly competitive colleges. The adversity score will only reinforce that knowledge. That is not a reality conducive to life achievement.” Grievance Proxies

But.....once allowed into schools they are not prepared for.........



What happens to minority students ‘installed’ in prestigious schools?

As history and experience have proven about Leftist agendas…..failure and misery follow.

Next.

"The Right Measurement
Standardized tests remain the fairest means of evaluating student merit.

High schoolers taking the SAT may wish that they could skip the nerve-racking process of college admissions testing, and they found an ally in former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. “We came up with the SAT during World War II to determine who to keep from the frontlines,” Yang tweeted early in his campaign. (Actually, the SAT began in 1926.) “Now every year is wartime. We should deemphasize standardized tests and evaluate kids more holistically.” Yang has criticized standardized tests before, calling them “a terrible measurement of anything other than whether you are good at the test.”

Administrators at colleges and graduate schools throughout the country seem to agree. Many—possibly soon to include the massive University of California system—no longer require applicants’ test scores. Some elites go further than Yang, attacking admissions tests as racist. “The SAT was created by a eugenicist determined to prove the inherent inferiority of black Americans,” tweeted Nikole Hannah-Jones, who directed the New York Times’s “1619 Project.” “Turns out,” she added, “if you want to design a test that will prove white superiority and justify maintenance of racial and class hierarchies, then the ‘objective and scientific’ test you design will do just [fine].” Richard Carranza, New York City’s schools chancellor, argues likewise that the city’s entrance exam for selective high schools unfairly excludes blacks and Hispanics.

There’s little evidence, though, that admissions tests are biased against minorities; in fact, such tests remain our fairest means of identifying academic talent. As a century of research shows, admissions tests have consistently predicted academic performance. "
The Right Measurement

 

[Cecilie1200]

1.One of the reasons well meaning persons tend toward support of Democrats/Liberals

Well meaning people do not support communst leftards, ever.

decent people do not support fascist righttards....ever.....

As if you know anything about being decent.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1.One of the reasons well meaning persons tend toward support of Democrats/Liberals is that most of us want good outcomes for everyone. The problem is allowing ‘visions of sugar plums to dance in their heads.’

Liberals do this: they imagine rosy outcomes, sans the commensurate problems the ‘feeling’ will cause. Socialism paying for everything, not considering the theft from earners to pay for same, or forcing NINJA loans to folks who cannot afford to own homes, or minorities leaping from lack of achievements to the top of their graduating classes in the best universities…..if we just ‘install’ them in same.

My pal, Bushy, posted about the new SAT ‘adversity’ plan to do just that: SAT Turns Racist...Black to Have an “Adversity Score”





Today, an explanation of why that plan is wrong for achievers, for non-achievers, and even for Liberals.



2. Government, especially those on the Left, fail because they do not understand human nature. Pamphleteer Thomas Paine said What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly. This is certainly true where skin color becomes a substitute for study habits.




“At present, thanks to racial preferences, many black high school students know that they don’t need to put in as much scholarly effort as non-“students of color” to be admitted to highly competitive colleges. The adversity score will only reinforce that knowledge. That is not a reality conducive to life achievement.” Grievance Proxies

But.....once allowed into schools they are not prepared for.........



What happens to minority students ‘installed’ in prestigious schools?

As history and experience have proven about Leftist agendas…..failure and misery follow.

Next.

"SAT Now Just A Single Page Requiring You To Draw Devil Horns On A Picture Of Trump
November 2nd, 2020

NEW YORK, NY—The College Board is announcing significant changes to its SAT in an effort to remain a relevant measure of college readiness. Starting next year, all test questions related to math, science, and reading comprehension will be replaced by a single coloring page depicting a likeness of Donald Trump and a space to draw devil horns on his head.
"We wanted to boil everything down to the basic essentials of what today's students need to be successful at today's progressive state colleges," said College Board spokeswoman Cynthia Borshvittle. "For most publically-educated students today, literacy and math skills are a useless remnant of a bygone era. Today, we must train our students in one thing, and one thing only: progressive politics. It's all about ideology. Nothing else matters now."
Sources confirmed that the SAT will still require a #2 pencil for completion, and will be graded on a sliding scale based on how disadvantaged or oppressed the student is.
"This is just a first step for us," said Borshvittle. The College Board has plans to further improve its testing in the future by grading students on their ability to pull down statues and throw Molotov cocktails. "

SAT Now Just A Single Page Requiring You To Draw Devil Horns On A Picture Of Trump

NEW YORK, NY—The College Board is announcing significant changes to its SAT in an effort to remain a relevant measure of college readiness. Starting next year, all test questions related to math, science, and reading comprehension will be replaced by a single coloring page depicting a likeness...

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