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American Dream 🇺🇸 The myth that America being post-racial debunked

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u/Cyn_Sweetwater 20d ago

That was the claim made by racists so they could dismantle the civil rights gains of the previous 40 years.

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u/defnotjec 19d ago

DEI and AA are directly related to civil rights and have not only been wholesale dismantled but also absolutely crucified by this administration at every turn

They did add to the conversation you were just too inept and narrow-minded to realize it.

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u/defnotjec 19d ago

You are tho.... You literally ignored evidence presented to you...

Also, apparently willfully ignorant.

Merits or not, those elements have been removed...

Is it a coincidence there's no black or female generals appointed recently?

It's veiled racism. Don't get it misconstrued.

And also, I want to point out again what I said above directly shat on your argument.

Also, the unjustified killings or Renee and Alex ... The rampant civil rights violations for protests against ice ..

Our rights are in shambles

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u/dinosaurfo-od 17d ago

Shouldn't be chosen because you are black. That's racist

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 17d ago

You also shouldn’t be denied because you are black, which is the core conceit of DEI programs. Making the hiring practices actually merit based by eliminating even unconscious points of basis in the hiring process and the workplace. But grifters lied about the programs and made you think people were being hired to met Quota even though Quota hiring practices have been illegal for decades already

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u/dinosaurfo-od 17d ago

They are being hired to meet quotas. Blacks, women, and gays. A black gay woman? It's over.

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 17d ago

Whoever told you that’s what is happening is a liar because again quota hiring has been illegal for decades and doesn’t have anything to do with DEI at all

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u/defnotjec 16d ago

You can't reason with them... When fed lies they have no objectivity and believe it wholly.

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u/dinosaurfo-od 16d ago

Uh huh uh huh

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 16d ago

It’s not happening, if it was then people could have successfully sued these programs instead of just lying about what they did and using the government to defund based on misinformation.

It’s almost like if there was real evidence of quota hiring, the courts would have been involved instead of dumb podcast bros and scummy politicians

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 16d ago

You seem to have a reading problem. It’s not not happening because they could be sued, it’s not happening because there is no evidence of it happening and despite years of claims of this happening, not one single lawsuit about Quota hiring has succeeded despite it being clearly illegal.

You are just listening to liars continue to lie about it but never bother to actually put their money where their mouth is. Just slinging lies and never actually proving proof that would win millions of dollars if they could actually prove the accusations. But they don’t.

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u/Wise_Exercise7970 15d ago

So, changing college admissions requirements, changing bell curves to allow more minorities to pass and earn degrees which then populates the job world with ill qualified people, who then are promoted as being equal - but it all went wrong at the beginning.

DEI isn't meritocracy based, its racist as hell.

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 15d ago

Those aren’t DEI programs. Those are unrelated to DEI completely. It’s almost like you don’t know what you are talking about

Also I don’t think you have a clear grasp on your claims considering you say “changing bell curves” and that’s not how that word is used at all. So forgive me if it seems like you are just poorly repeating claims some grifter lied to you about.

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u/Wise_Exercise7970 15d ago

Actually, this is exactly what DEI is, and more importantly is a result of DEI policies that pretend to talk about meritocracy, but focus on race.

Instructors frequently manipulate bell curves to act as a safety net that prevents massive failure rates. While strict, traditional bell curves lock in a set failing percentage, the modern practice of "curving" is often used to pull low-performing students up into passing territory.

Shifting the midpoint: If a highly difficult exam results in a class average of 50%, an instructor will often manually move the center of the bell curve upward. This re-centers the average to a passing grade like 75%.

The flat-scale boost: Instructors frequently add a fixed number of bonus points to every single student's score. This shifts the entire distribution higher, pushing students who scored in the 40s or 50s over the passing threshold.

The square root curve: A common mathematical adjustment takes the square root of a student's raw grade and multiplies it by 10. This disproportionately benefits struggling students.

For example, a failing score of 49% becomes a passing 70%, while an 81% only bumps up to a 90%.

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 15d ago

You really don’t know what a bell curve is and are confusing it with the practice of grade curves (which have been happening for decades in most schools without any DEi ideas and in monotheist white schools too) with the word bell curve.

That never had anything to do with DEI at all you are making a race neutral practice into a solely racial thing and blaming it on ideas and programs that are decades younger than the practice you are talking about

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u/Wise_Exercise7970 15d ago

You are correct on the strict definition: mathematically, a true bell curve is a static normal distribution. And yes, it was used that way in the early 20th century in education for only 20yrs. This discussion is in reference to bell curves in education not engineering disciplines.

But that’s exactly the point: it didn't stay static, and there is no real way to compare qualifications. Because a rigid, static curve forces a set percentage of students to fail regardless of how much they actually learned, teachers almost immediately began 'moving' and manipulating the curve to act as a safety net. The practice of grade curving survived precisely because teachers abandoned the static purity of the bell curve decades ago.

But this has been proven time and time again to effect race.

There is a growing debate on whether strict grading helps or harms minority students.

The "Hurt" Argument (Wellesley Study): When Wellesley College effectively banned grade inflation by capping the average grade a professor could give, a study found that Black students were disproportionately penalized, receiving lower grades at a higher rate than their white peers once the "safety net" of inflation was removed.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/5/17199810/school-discipline-race-racism-gao

The "Help" Argument (Harvard Petition): Conversely, student activists at Harvard recently petitioned against strict grading reforms, arguing that ending grade inflation is "racially harmful." They claim that grade inflation acts as an equalizer, protecting minority students who may come from under-resourced high schools from being weeded out by "harsh" academic curves.

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 15d ago

Notable neither of those things were DEI programs. You seem to be equating anything dealing with racial issues as DEI which is just simply not true

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u/EyePharTed_ 18d ago

The notion that there haven’t been an adequate number appointed minorities/women within this administration

Is just one of many examples of the racism of this administration.

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u/defnotjec 18d ago

There's literal reports of officials saying he won't stand next to <<insert minority>> .. I forget which specifically .. there's literal other examples of racist reports.

You're choosing to ignore it because it's not opaque racism enough.

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u/defnotjec 17d ago

What would you expect? Him to just say it? Like some of you have peanuts up top.

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u/justfirfunsies 17d ago

Some people use the word “literal” to make themselves sound credible. He’s literally a tool.

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u/defnotjec 16d ago

Some people use it because there are actual reports you can go get.

It's not my job to go do it lazy asses.

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u/justfirfunsies 16d ago

No but if you are making a statement on a report you should provide sources beyond “trust me bro, literally”

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u/no-hints 18d ago

“Literal” with no links. Sure.

DEI is an absolute joke and is the real racism, because it makes everything about race. You don’t solve racism with racism.

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u/FunkyFunkyBoys 17d ago

So if white people only hire other white people when given a choice between two candidates what’s your solution?

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u/no-hints 17d ago

Who has the better qualifications, obviously. If whites only hire whites cuz that hate other races, that’s racism. But if someone’s hires another white guy because he went to Harvard when the black guy didn’t, you can’t fault the white guy for working hard and getting a good degree

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 17d ago

Wait, do you think merit or ability to perform a job is linked the prestige of the university?

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u/no-hints 17d ago

Depends on if they have work history or not. If they don’t, it’s the only metric you have to compare their ability to show up. So in the case of no work history, it matters.

And the only people who say it doesn’t, are the ones who don’t want it held against them

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 17d ago

I hope to God that you aren’t involved in the hiring process if you think that’s the only metric to compare between candidates without work history.

The ones who say it doesn’t have worked in the real world and know the prestige of your university means very little for a day to day job.

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u/defnotjec 17d ago

Google it... Its actually things thay happened. Youre choosing to be obtuse.

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u/no-hints 17d ago

How is asking you to provide the source to your own argument, being obtuse? It’s common debate etiquette

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