Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled - Democrat Party Personified!

[trumptman]

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them

One of the most prestigious universities in the US offers perks to those who say they have ADHD, night terrors, even gluten intolerance. You’d be stupid not to game the system

www.thetimes.com

In 2023, one month into my freshman year at Stanford University, an upperclassman was showing me her dorm room — a prized single in one of the nicest buildings on campus. As she took me around her space, which included a private bathroom, a walk-in shower and a great view of Hoover Tower, she casually mentioned that she had lived in a single all four years she had attended Stanford.

I was surprised. Most people don't get the privilege of a single room until they reach their senior year.

That's when my friend gave me a tip: Stanford had granted her "a disability accommodation".

She, of course, didn't have a disability. She knew it. I knew it. But she had figured out early what most Stanford students eventually learn: the Office of Accessible Education will give students a single room, extra time on tests and even exemptions from academic requirements if they qualify as "disabled".

This is a perfect microcosm for the modern Democrat Party. Empathy as a pathway to Entitlement. You claim elitism but also claim disability.

But at Stanford, almost no one talks about the system with shame. Rather, we openly discuss, strategise and even joke about it. At a university of savvy optimisers, the feeling is that if you aren't getting accommodations, you haven't tried hard enough.

Another student told me that special "accommodations are so prevalent that they effectively only punish the honest". Academic accommodations, they added, help "students get ahead … which puts a huge proportion of the class on an unfair playing ground".

DEI, disabilities, the whole letter crew (LGBTQIA++) are all just paths to optimize their ability to game the system with no shame. It is just "savvy optimization" and only punish the "honest" people who won't lie.

Administrators seem powerless to reform the system and frankly don't seem to care. How do you prove someone doesn't have anxiety? How do you verify they don't need extra time on a test? How do you challenge a religious dietary claim without risking a discrimination lawsuit?

I often think back to that conversation with my upperclassman friend. She wasn't proud of gaming the system and she wasn't ashamed either. She was simply rational. The university had created a set of incentives and she had simply responded to them.

That's what strikes me most about the accommodation explosion at Stanford and similar schools. The students aren't exactly cheating and if they are, can you blame them? Stanford has made gaming the system the logical choice. When accommodations mean the difference between a cramped triple and your own room, when extra test time can boost your grade point average, opting out feels like self-sabotage. Who would make their lives harder when the easiest option is just a 30-minute Zoom call away?

Another perfect microcosm. They system can't be challenged or changed. What happens at some point... you get someone who is willing to blow it up since it can't adapt.

Gaming the system is the logical choice. If you don't game, you are self-sabotaging. Why make your life harder when you can just lie and make it easier?

From day care centers, to autism centers, to hospice centers to SNAP, EBT, Social Security Disability and more, this is increasingly the norm in America and the only person who is punished are those who are too honest or who just believe they shouldn't game the system.

You hear the same excuses for illegal immigration. "How will you afford your construction, your lawn care, someone to pick you vegetables and clean your house (if you don't game the system?)

We are getting to the point, according to the facts presented in the article where the "Elites" will both claim they are elite but also entitled and disabled and no one should be "honest" enough and by that they mean stupid enough to question that hypocrisy and contradiction.

I'm willing to question in. In fact I'm willing to say that in a system that can't change or be challenged, I'm more than willing to risk the damage and harm of blowing it up. I'm not the one starving kids if SNAP can't be reformed. They frauds are the one risking it. I'm not the one harming people with legitimate disabilities. The people exploiting it for their own benefit are the ones harming them.

Empathy as a weapon needs to be stopped and those who exploit it need to be seen as vile people engaged in disgusting actions.

If we can't fix or question it. Destroy it. That's the norm and the modern Democrat Party that lives and breaths this stuff must either get out of the way or take their lumps when that creative destruction they prompted comes to pass.

 

[1srelluc]

My bet is all the leftist collages have an office set up to help the deadbeats claim disability. Likely run by some fat black woman.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them

One of the most prestigious universities in the US offers perks to those who say they have ADHD, night terrors, even gluten intolerance. You’d be stupid not to game the system

www.thetimes.com

This is a perfect microcosm for the modern Democrat Party. Empathy as a pathway to Entitlement. You claim elitism but also claim disability.



DEI, disabilities, the whole letter crew (LGBTQIA++) are all just paths to optimize their ability to game the system with no shame. It is just "savvy optimization" and only punish the "honest" people who won't lie.



Another perfect microcosm. They system can't be challenged or changed. What happens at some point... you get someone who is willing to blow it up since it can't adapt.

Gaming the system is the logical choice. If you don't game, you are self-sabotaging. Why make your life harder when you can just lie and make it easier?

From day care centers, to autism centers, to hospice centers to SNAP, EBT, Social Security Disability and more, this is increasingly the norm in America and the only person who is punished are those who are too honest or who just believe they shouldn't game the system.

You hear the same excuses for illegal immigration. "How will you afford your construction, your lawn care, someone to pick you vegetables and clean your house (if you don't game the system?)

We are getting to the point, according to the facts presented in the article where the "Elites" will both claim they are elite but also entitled and disabled and no one should be "honest" enough and by that they mean stupid enough to question that hypocrisy and contradiction.

I'm willing to question in. In fact I'm willing to say that in a system that can't change or be challenged, I'm more than willing to risk the damage and harm of blowing it up. I'm not the one starving kids if SNAP can't be reformed. They frauds are the one risking it. I'm not the one harming people with legitimate disabilities. The people exploiting it for their own benefit are the ones harming them.

Empathy as a weapon needs to be stopped and those who exploit it need to be seen as vile people engaged in disgusting actions.

If we can't fix or question it. Destroy it. That's the norm and the modern Democrat Party that lives and breaths this stuff must either get out of the way or take their lumps when that creative destruction they prompted comes to pass.

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Left cult super power -- changing the definition of words so they can carry that victim card.

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[IM2]

More dumb MAGA bs. A bunch of people who believe proven lies consistently spoken to them, talking about some alleged garbage that is supposed to prove some kind of mental disability on the left, is really quite rich.

White people on the right need to shut up about DEI. Whites are included in the protected categories. Handicapped whites, white veterans, gay an lebin whites, white women, old white men, all are included in EI.

 

[SeaMajor7]

CLOWN WORLD

 

[Winston]

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them

One of the most prestigious universities in the US offers perks to those who say they have ADHD, night terrors, even gluten intolerance. You’d be stupid not to game the system

www.thetimes.com

This is a perfect microcosm for the modern Democrat Party. Empathy as a pathway to Entitlement. You claim elitism but also claim disability.



DEI, disabilities, the whole letter crew (LGBTQIA++) are all just paths to optimize their ability to game the system with no shame. It is just "savvy optimization" and only punish the "honest" people who won't lie.



Another perfect microcosm. They system can't be challenged or changed. What happens at some point... you get someone who is willing to blow it up since it can't adapt.

Gaming the system is the logical choice. If you don't game, you are self-sabotaging. Why make your life harder when you can just lie and make it easier?

From day care centers, to autism centers, to hospice centers to SNAP, EBT, Social Security Disability and more, this is increasingly the norm in America and the only person who is punished are those who are too honest or who just believe they shouldn't game the system.

You hear the same excuses for illegal immigration. "How will you afford your construction, your lawn care, someone to pick you vegetables and clean your house (if you don't game the system?)

We are getting to the point, according to the facts presented in the article where the "Elites" will both claim they are elite but also entitled and disabled and no one should be "honest" enough and by that they mean stupid enough to question that hypocrisy and contradiction.

I'm willing to question in. In fact I'm willing to say that in a system that can't change or be challenged, I'm more than willing to risk the damage and harm of blowing it up. I'm not the one starving kids if SNAP can't be reformed. They frauds are the one risking it. I'm not the one harming people with legitimate disabilities. The people exploiting it for their own benefit are the ones harming them.

Empathy as a weapon needs to be stopped and those who exploit it need to be seen as vile people engaged in disgusting actions.

If we can't fix or question it. Destroy it. That's the norm and the modern Democrat Party that lives and breaths this stuff must either get out of the way or take their lumps when that creative destruction they prompted comes to pass.

Why are you making this a political issue? I mean I agree, accommodation is getting out of hand, and has been for quite some time. My sons complained about it and they have been out for years. But even then, it seemed everyone was claiming some kind of disability in order to get those accommodations. Extra time on tests is huge. Extra time to do assignments.

Honestly, all these people falsely claiming disability, or even exaggerating the problems they may very well have, like ADHD, are taking resources, and attention, away from people that really do need it. And besides, what kind of accommodations are going to be made for these people in the real world.

 

[1srelluc]

Why are you making this a political issue? I mean I agree, accommodation is getting out of hand, and has been for quite some time. My sons complained about it and they have been out for years. But even then, it seemed everyone was claiming some kind of disability in order to get those accommodations. Extra time on tests is huge. Extra time to do assignments.

Honestly, all these people falsely claiming disability, or even exaggerating the problems they may very well have, like ADHD, are taking resources, and attention, away from people that really do need it. And besides, what kind of accommodations are going to be made for these people in the real world.

Well, they all have the TDS these days.

 

[Independent thinker]

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them

One of the most prestigious universities in the US offers perks to those who say they have ADHD, night terrors, even gluten intolerance. You’d be stupid not to game the system

www.thetimes.com

This is a perfect microcosm for the modern Democrat Party. Empathy as a pathway to Entitlement. You claim elitism but also claim disability.



DEI, disabilities, the whole letter crew (LGBTQIA++) are all just paths to optimize their ability to game the system with no shame. It is just "savvy optimization" and only punish the "honest" people who won't lie.



Another perfect microcosm. They system can't be challenged or changed. What happens at some point... you get someone who is willing to blow it up since it can't adapt.

Gaming the system is the logical choice. If you don't game, you are self-sabotaging. Why make your life harder when you can just lie and make it easier?

From day care centers, to autism centers, to hospice centers to SNAP, EBT, Social Security Disability and more, this is increasingly the norm in America and the only person who is punished are those who are too honest or who just believe they shouldn't game the system.

You hear the same excuses for illegal immigration. "How will you afford your construction, your lawn care, someone to pick you vegetables and clean your house (if you don't game the system?)

We are getting to the point, according to the facts presented in the article where the "Elites" will both claim they are elite but also entitled and disabled and no one should be "honest" enough and by that they mean stupid enough to question that hypocrisy and contradiction.

I'm willing to question in. In fact I'm willing to say that in a system that can't change or be challenged, I'm more than willing to risk the damage and harm of blowing it up. I'm not the one starving kids if SNAP can't be reformed. They frauds are the one risking it. I'm not the one harming people with legitimate disabilities. The people exploiting it for their own benefit are the ones harming them.

Empathy as a weapon needs to be stopped and those who exploit it need to be seen as vile people engaged in disgusting actions.

If we can't fix or question it. Destroy it. That's the norm and the modern Democrat Party that lives and breaths this stuff must either get out of the way or take their lumps when that creative destruction they prompted comes to pass.

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them

One of the most prestigious universities in the US offers perks to those who say they have ADHD, night terrors, even gluten intolerance. You’d be stupid not to game the system

www.thetimes.com

This is a perfect microcosm for the modern Democrat Party. Empathy as a pathway to Entitlement. You claim elitism but also claim disability.



DEI, disabilities, the whole letter crew (LGBTQIA++) are all just paths to optimize their ability to game the system with no shame. It is just "savvy optimization" and only punish the "honest" people who won't lie.



Another perfect microcosm. They system can't be challenged or changed. What happens at some point... you get someone who is willing to blow it up since it can't adapt.

Gaming the system is the logical choice. If you don't game, you are self-sabotaging. Why make your life harder when you can just lie and make it easier?

From day care centers, to autism centers, to hospice centers to SNAP, EBT, Social Security Disability and more, this is increasingly the norm in America and the only person who is punished are those who are too honest or who just believe they shouldn't game the system.

You hear the same excuses for illegal immigration. "How will you afford your construction, your lawn care, someone to pick you vegetables and clean your house (if you don't game the system?)

We are getting to the point, according to the facts presented in the article where the "Elites" will both claim they are elite but also entitled and disabled and no one should be "honest" enough and by that they mean stupid enough to question that hypocrisy and contradiction.

I'm willing to question in. In fact I'm willing to say that in a system that can't change or be challenged, I'm more than willing to risk the damage and harm of blowing it up. I'm not the one starving kids if SNAP can't be reformed. They frauds are the one risking it. I'm not the one harming people with legitimate disabilities. The people exploiting it for their own benefit are the ones harming them.

Empathy as a weapon needs to be stopped and those who exploit it need to be seen as vile people engaged in disgusting actions.

If we can't fix or question it. Destroy it. That's the norm and the modern Democrat Party that lives and breaths this stuff must either get out of the way or take their lumps when that creative destruction they prompted comes to pass.

Can't help but think that much of this is all leftovers from the medical marijuana thing. Back when marijuana wasn't legal recreationally in California, we had a massive number (let's say 40%) of college kids who, where the poor things were all very disabled with crippling back pain, were getting legally prescribed marijuana for their disabled condidtions. After marijuana became legal recreationally, these poor kids with crippling back pain just continued on as is because it was what they were used to and it just caught on with the newer kids coming up.

 

[martybegan]

Why are you making this a political issue? I mean I agree, accommodation is getting out of hand, and has been for quite some time. My sons complained about it and they have been out for years. But even then, it seemed everyone was claiming some kind of disability in order to get those accommodations. Extra time on tests is huge. Extra time to do assignments.

Honestly, all these people falsely claiming disability, or even exaggerating the problems they may very well have, like ADHD, are taking resources, and attention, away from people that really do need it. And besides, what kind of accommodations are going to be made for these people in the real world.

Because most of the support for things like this comes from the left?

 

[trumptman]

More dumb MAGA bs. A bunch of people who believe proven lies consistently spoken to them, talking about some alleged garbage that is supposed to prove some kind of mental disability on the left, is really quite rich.

White people on the right need to shut up about DEI. Whites are included in the protected categories. Handicapped whites, white veterans, gay an lebin whites, white women, old white men, all are included in EI.

You sound like you might be trying to prove a need for some accommodations.

Feel better?

No I don't and of course it is your fault. When I claim an empathetic need, it means you have to do more so I can do less. Clearly you aren't doing enough which is why I still feel bad.

Do better!

Why are you making this a political issue? I mean I agree, accommodation is getting out of hand, and has been for quite some time. My sons complained about it and they have been out for years. But even then, it seemed everyone was claiming some kind of disability in order to get those accommodations. Extra time on tests is huge. Extra time to do assignments.

Honestly, all these people falsely claiming disability, or even exaggerating the problems they may very well have, like ADHD, are taking resources, and attention, away from people that really do need it. And besides, what kind of accommodations are going to be made for these people in the real world.

Well the point is and was that it is being carried out into the real world. You get a company and they are mandated to have a diversity officer. Then soon you have requirements for board composition, ownership and so on then at some point your company is in the business of accommodation and DEI vs actual business.

The entertainment business is deep in this right now and that's why most of what they produce has been unwatchable.

Can't help but think that much of this is all leftovers from the medical marijuana thing. Back when marijuana wasn't legal recreationally in California, we had a massive number (let's say 40%) of college kids who, where the poor things were all very disabled with crippling back pain, were getting legally prescribed marijuana for their disabled condidtions. After marijuana became legal recreationally, these poor kids with crippling back pain just continued on as is because it was what they were used to and it just caught on with the newer kids coming up.

Well you're just referring to an earlier version of the same con game. You have "pain" and now you are above the law when it comes to marijuana. Later you change the law because how can it penalize....well everyone who doesn't lie?

That's the current Democrat Party?

How can you penalize refugees....they're just illegal aliens claiming to be afraid.
How can you penalize women with children.... they've never been married and they keep having them. They've never worked.
How can you penalize someone claiming poor mental health due to being LGBTQIA++ when it makes them unable to work.... well it's mental health not an actual physical disability and wow people can just claim that mental state and stop working now.....

 

[Hellokitty]

And besides, what kind of accommodations are going to be made for these people in the real world.

Um, lots of accommodates are being made in the real world. Companies often can't question or challenge people on claims of "disabilities/accommodations".

 

[martybegan]

Um, lots of accommodates are being made in the real world. Companies often can't question or challenge people on claims of "disabilities/accommodations".

Same thing where we can't question the cross-dressing perv who invades women's private spaces.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Um, lots of accommodates are being made in the real world. Companies often can't question or challenge people on claims of "disabilities/accommodations".

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I would be happy to see a crackdown on the ADA regulations. There have been far too many people bringing their pets into stores because they knew that nobody there could ever require them to prove their "disability".

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[d0gbreath]

My bet is all the leftist collages have an office set up to help the deadbeats claim disability. Likely run by some fat black woman.

Your inability to spell colleges means that you ain't never been. Collages are works of art with many pictures.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

More dumb MAGA bs. A bunch of people who believe proven lies consistently spoken to them, talking about some alleged garbage that is supposed to prove some kind of mental disability on the left, is really quite rich.

White people on the right need to shut up about DEI. Whites are included in the protected categories. Handicapped whites, white veterans, gay an lebin whites, white women, old white men, all are included in EI.

^^More racist drivel.

 

[IM2]

^^More racist drivel.

Wrong. It is the truth.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Look at the gen z and younger crowd. They can't cope with anything. I've seen it numerous times in meeting. Cant think, can't multitask, can't prioritize. It's an amazing thing to watch as the dumbing down spirals towards the pinnacle of complete ineptitude. Maybe that's the plan.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Wrong. It is the truth.

What's truth is that blacks were farming out their own centuries ago....way before the white man. That's fact. Your words are hollow because there is no truth in them.

 

[Winston]

Because most of the support for things like this comes from the left?

I know, in your mind the only people at Stanford getting those accommodations are all purple haired crazies and cross dressers. But at 40%, that can't be the case. I can promise you, most members of the on-campus Young Republican chapter are getting accommodations.

And come on, it is Stanford for Christ sake. They don't even give out F's. And used to be, you could drop a class up to the day before the exam. Seems like they were doing enough accommodating.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

You inability to spell colleges means that you ain't never been. Collages are works of art with many pictures.

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So does your first word.

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