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Tom's avatar

Isn't this the same publication that exposed the Russia connection to the republican campaign?

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John Dickerson's avatar

When close to all the articles "are picked solely via competition scores on a written exam and 10 on the basis of a combination of scores and grades." the HLR will be of the highest quality. Sports gives a dam about race, The i“inclusion of (participants) from underrepresented groups” is never a “first priority.” Who is the best, is the only criteria. Americans thrive over competition in every category but education. Harvard et al should drop their racist approach. Maybe then we can improve our horrendous educational system. If Harvard wants to continue its ways, stop taking taxpayers dollars and use their mammoth endowment to fund any form of racism they want.

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Ali Mostafa's avatar

You are factually wrong, in sports (football), one of the reasons premier league pushes above other leagues is the diversity programs they invested in for coaches, players, etc. as opposed to Germany (also lanaguage barriers). Even in germany, due to one diversity program, toni kroos was discovered, the only player from East Germany.

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Salvatore Monella's avatar

The press selecting facts and structuring them to fit a narrative? Ignoring complexities, subtleties and nuance? My stars! Never have I seen such an outrage . . . except, of course, for every goddamn day in most of the tripe published in mainline “news” periodicals. It feels awfully unfair and unjust when you’re on the receiving end of this bullshit, doesn’t it? Well, welcome to the world of political conservatives. Only it’s not just newspapers - it’s entertainment, academia, the arts - the whole kit and kaboodle. The worst part of it is the self regard and arrogance of the left as it struts around peddling their bullshit as if we don’t know better.

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Mike's avatar

Whats funny is the author dances around the point of the Beacon's story: race was a deciding factor in whose articles got published and whose didn't. If that was the case, and the Beacon certainly made the case that it was, its prohibited by law.

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Salvatore Monella's avatar

Ah, but the law is to be ignored when it gets in the way of leftist objectives, because it’s the product of pasty phallo-centric patricians. The left is brimming with paeans to its inviolability only when it suits them. Otherwise, it is to be viewed with suspicion and contempt.

It’s one of those “greater truths” the left is so fond of, i.e. to hell with the facts, I have a poorly-conceived agenda which doesn’t withstand closer scrutiny so I seek to advance it through lies, distortions, violence and the emotional manipulation of white suburban women who’ll support anything presented in the form of a Hallmark greeting card.

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Sarah's avatar

We have never had a president that is so uneducated and gullible, and those that have his ear are just relishing this fact. They can feed him anything because he is incapable of doing his own critical thinking. If something sounds close to what believes feeds his grievances (and his base's enormous amount of grievances), he is all in no matter how dangerous it is going be to the future of the nation. We used to call it throwing the baby out with the bath. But these are people's productive lives, science backed facts and true history that they want to erase, just like Hitler did, and Germany admits that even today it is still catching up because of all the brain drain. But here we are.

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Mike's avatar

That race can be considered an evaluative factor at all is prohibited. End of story.

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Elwood Watson's avatar

Good article. Hopefully, the major newspapers such as The New York Times and others will begin to cover this story.

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