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TwiceHorn

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  1. Fuckin a! (you're yt tho). As context, the supreme court used the word liberally in the civil rights era to describe unlawful discrimination. But it is otherwise pretty obscure.
  2. Please tell me this asshole is getting abused on x.
  3. Addendum. It's this kind of ennui that I describe above that I think Bozo uses to partially excuse or justify past political choices. So, yeah, it exists, it's a thing. But at some point you gotta wake the fuck up and get woke enough to realize what's really going on.
  4. I dunno man. I grew up in the whitiest possible environment. But it wasn't ignorant either. People were wealthy, educated, and well traveled, but my peers were young and inexperienced at life. I never encountered any hardcore racism growing up, among my peers. I saw it elsewhere, in the country where family was from, for example. My Dad in particular was extremely anti-racist. The n-word was absolutely verboten in my house. He grew up around it and knew it was bullshit. You might hear another kid throw it around on occasion, but it was like saying any other curse word, done for "naughtiness," not with any real malice aforethought. What there was, though, was a sort of indifference and ignorance. The black struggle, slavery, Jim Crow, was an abstraction, something you read in history books. No one I knew growing up felt superior by virtue of race, if anything it was economics. Occasionally, you'd hear the cheer "that's alright, that's ok, you'll be working for us someday." That was rarely directed at the very black school we played, Wilmer-Hutchins, but rather the poorer, mostly white schools we played, Mesquite and Garland. We also generally knew it was wrong, but the naughtiness of it made it more fun. The sense that it invoked slavery was why it was never used on the Hutch, so the sense of wrongness was very much there and the desire to be "naughty" didn't overcome it. I was not taught that the Confederacy was good, or that the civil war was about anything but slavery. The concept of "states rights" came up, but only as a lame and insufficient justification for secession. The adoration of RE Lee and other Confederate "heros" around us was just accepted, not thought through at all. I have mentioned that as a child, I was a civil war buff and generally "preferred" the confederacy as a side. But it was because I was southern and they were the underdog. No one in my life, my parents, peers, anyone, encouraged me to be a "Fan of the Confederacy." Indeed, my parents discouraged me from that belief. Same general thing at UT, but there was more consciousness of the exclusion of minorities from various things including an uneasiness about why that was. You learned about Sweatt v. Painter and that was cringey as fuck, but also an abstraction, despite the physics/science building being names after Painter. I had noticed that a fair number of my peers in engineering at UT had not had calculus and physics in high school, because their schools didn't offer them The first time was my physics lab partner, a Hispanic kid from PSA deep in the valley. I knew he was behind the eight ball in engineering. That applied to plenty of white kids, too, I didn't connect the dots, or connected them solely to economics, not to race. I was grateful for my advantages and didn't see any reason to feel superior to Marcus (the kid from PSA). Note, I just looked and Marcus graduated one semester behind with a BSCE and later with an MSCE. Orale, amigo. Still, all along, I never encountered anyone that I believe felt they were superior by virtue of their race. I do know they exist, obviously. One thing we need to differentiate here. Everyone has a little bit of a superiority complex. At some level all of us think we're smarter, better looking, more virtuous, more deserving, whatever than at least some of the people around us. I still have not known anyone personally that holds that belief on the basis of race, as far as I know, although there probably are some. On graduation and application to graduate school, affirmative action became something of a reality that was grumbled about a little bit. But rarely, that I saw, did anyone personalize it to "that minority took my spot." It was more, "ok, admission to Harvard Law is pretty much out the window and affirmative action has something to do with that." Jokes that minority friends could "check the box" and had it made, admission-wise. Maybe a debate on whether it was a valid policy, informed yet again by the abstraction that the civil rights struggle remained for peers. At some point in this timeframe, I came across an article that stated that a very small fraction of non-white college students achieved what was then known as the "Texas index," the median GPA and LSAT score of the students at UT Law School. At the time, that was a 3.5 GPA and a 37 on the LSAT, yielding a Texas index of 72 (GPAx10 + LSAT). That floored me. And it didn't make me feel superior. It made me begin to understand that there were things at work that made it harder on non-white students. That poor neighborhoods and schools didn't just suffer by being poor, that maybe it affected every damn thing. The initial thought was that it was an issue of economics, alone. I still hasn't quite snapped to the notion that institutional racism was a factor both economically and otherwise. And, during this time, social and cultural aspects of conservatism started coming to the fore, and I was increasingly uncomfortable with that. It conflicted/s with my fundamental belief that as people we are more similar than different. But what overlies all of this is that I am comfortable. I am educated, reasonably well-traveled, and economically secure. I can afford to be indifferent or ignorant of the struggles of others. The flip side is that I don't need to find scapegoats for my own inadequacies or insufficient circumstances. It's that last thing, I believe, that drives people to scapegoat others invidiously (without valid reason), and race is as good a reason to scapegoat others as any, when you're that ignorant and resentful.
  5. Yeah, Tuscola is a little shitsplat town south of Abilene, home of ACU, the center of Christers in Texas. More Baylor than Baylor. So I think it's mostly an issue of assumption (that everyone decent is like them) and ignorance (that Christers don't hold the monopoly on decency, quite the opposite, actually) rather than a calculated white Christian supremacy. And jocks aren't known for introspection or self-awareness. In a lot of cases, they're kind of the ultimate conformists. It is somewhat surprising that a guy that plays college football for four years then is on an NFL roster for nearly 20, with a bunch of black players, doesn't pick up a little more awareness. But I imagine a lot of those black players claim to be Christians, too, so maybe they just kind of bond over that and gloss over the rest.
  6. Man, the pathology with this guy is deep and various. First, raised by an abusive alcoholic father. And I think it was his father that first made him acutely aware that he hadn't done anything except inherit his business and his money. Then he has some minor success, mostly driven by political corruption and manipulation, in the Grand Hyatt and Trump Tower. Daddy still ignored and belittled him, and Manhattan social and financial circles saw him as a vulgar slumlord and refused to acknowledge him. He didn't help himself with his mail-order brides and unrelenting bad taste. And then he just became an absurd striver taking any kind of accolade he could get from anyone, including just flat making them up.
  7. So, that thing is basically a 40mm grenade launcher. Although it's "just" shooting chemical irritants, much like blank cartridges, you'd kind of have to think the "wad" or whatever contains the chemical is pretty fucking dangerous if not near-lethal at very close range. Guy's a jackass.
  8. TwiceHorn replied to DocZaius's topic in Books
    God have mercy on your soul.
  9. Im not really either. I just remembered that the outright transfer to the University was in the lower seven digits, typically. And, the University doesn't incur outright costs providing athletic or any other scholarships. But there is some cost associated with it. I wonder if the AD makes an actual cash transfer at tuition value, or something else.
  10. The swag bag. Not even very full. Might even just be a tote bag. Speaking of which imma . . . .
  11. Hopefully resembling that of a hemorrhagic fever.
  12. So many little things about that church (Baptist, contemporary, non-denominational) indicate that it might be hateful, but no. I do note that the pastor, Cody Deese, has an M. Div. from Emory, which is a nominally Methodist institution. I say nominally because Methodists generally tend to butt out of the actual education at "their" institutions, and even their divinity schools are known to be rigorous and not confined to Methodist or Wesleyan doctrine or dogma, unlike the theology schools associated with other denominations.
  13. Cogdell taught my circuits class. He didn't seem like that much of a dick. Zuul was a large, surly lady that sat behind a glass partition like a bank teller. I think her area was called "student advising." But Zuul did no advising. IIRC lower division students had to get their course schedule signed off by an assigned faculty member. Upper division students with a certain GPA could self-advise and those with a lower GPA had to get signed off by an upper division student, like TBP or PTS. Anyway, Zuul's entire job was to check out student files to students and check them back in with the proper advising signature. She acted as if this was the gravest and possibly most difficult job in ETC. Margaret Baker was who you had to see if you wanted to drop (or add) a class after Thursday (fourth day of the semester). For a little old lady, she was tough and intimidating. I had found Dr. Morrison's PHY303K honors section a bit too harrowing although I had gotten a B with a like 30/100 test average and wanted to get out of Gleeson's 303L. I made this decision after the first Thursday of the semester and went to see her on the second Monday, so two class days out of time. She basically told me to suck it up and fuck off. I did find, though, that once you made it into upper division with anything much over a 3.0, you started getting UTs version of kid glove treatment.
  14. I mean, I guess WBD bonds pre-merger had a somewhat high default risk that might have mitigated once acquired. But Netflix is taking on a shitload of debt.
  15. Equities is one thing, what's the benefit of buying bonds in an m/a situation?
  16. Authoritative personal testimony.
  17. For FY 22-23, it looks like 3.4M approximately to the University. There is, however, a line item in the of $15M for scholarships/athletic student aid, so maybe that's where it lies. University of Texas Athletics2023 Annual Report - University of Texas Athletics2023 Annual Report
  18. On the other hand, it's not like the AD comes out of pocket for scholarships. Maybe the books part if that's included. It comes out of the academic side, in-kind, so to speak.
  19. In ME upper division, we did have Zuul The Gatekeeper that was in charge of giving you your course file for counseling/planning purposes. That gave us all warm fuzzies.
  20. With apologies.
  21. And Somali fraud in Minnesota is a real problem!
  22. This is only tangentially related to the topic, but it came up in another thread relating to Title IX and women's sports. Title IX has forced some equity in women's sports at the college level and can be considered a success. But now that women are firmly entrenched in collegiate sports, and overtaking men in college admissions and graduations, is it time to modify or "ratchet back" Title IX? This is a rhetorical question mostly, but it applies to most of these "remedial schemes" to one degree or another. With respect to Title IX, if it were repealed, I think I would expect women's sports to start to disappear. Perhaps not as a preference for men's sports per SE, but because they tend to be revenue-generating. And that ties a little bit back into the essay. The author identifies 2014 as when minority prefererences really started to take hold. And that is when SCOTUS started actively retarding affirmative action. So, the "equity gains" complained of in the article were mostly obtained on a voluntary rather than legally compelled basis.
  23. TwiceHorn replied to RollLeft's topic in Cloak Room
    Yeah, and maybe the nature of the defamation has changed over time, that is the specific defamatory statements. But, generally, continuing tort is rejected for limitations purposes in defamation. I'd dearly love to see her bankrupted and de-platformed, but I don't think this is going to be the vehicle for it.
  24. TwiceHorn replied to RollLeft's topic in Cloak Room
    Y'know, the Brits have long referred to us as "the cousins." I think we're all kind of the dipshit cousins now.
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