[sickoflibs]

From NYT link :

In the heat of the moment, the students drafted a list of demands for the administration.
They wanted the college to stop calling its athletes the Lord Jeffs, after Lord Jeffery Amherst, the pre-Revolutionary War British commander who advocated germ warfare against Native Americans and for whom this college town was named. They wanted students who had posted 'Free Speech' and 'All Lives Matter' posters to go through 'extensive training for racial and cultural competency' and possibly discipline. They wanted the administration to apologize for 'our institutional legacy of white supremacy,' among many other forms of discrimination, like 'heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma and classism.'"

[GOPJ]

"The trouble is that diversity in and of itself doesn't really do anybody much good if separate little groups come to Amherst to study their own particular points of interest and they don't talk to each other,- Mr. Ruxin said. 'As alumni, many of us have tried to encourage the college to try to bring common intellectual ground, so when you leave college, you leave not just with nostalgia and friendship, but with a sense of common intellectual interest.'

If my parents had put me in MIT (years and years ago) - a place I'm uniquely unqualified for - it would have been painful. Then if MIT had patronized me for my 'great effort', while I was struggling and losing - I'd have a hard time waking up in the morning too.

It's not fair to black kids - kids probably at the top of their high school classes and proud of their accomplishments - ready to conquer the world, filled with joy... Then sent off to 'compete' with elite kids who had every advantage in the world from the day they were born. It's not kind or fair or good... it's dreadful.

This is the type of 'do-gooder stuff' liberal elites are known for - stuff that makes them feel 'oh so good' about themselves while inflicting pain and damage on those around them.

[stephenjohnbanker]

For those of you who don’t know, Amherst is on a par with any Ivy League school. Most of the students come from A rated private schools like Phillips Exeter,Boston Latin, or Choate. When college recruiters from Amherst or Johns Hopkins come to your high school, they flat out tell you “ this is NOT a party school. We seek scholars, period! “