Posted on 03/22/2018 11:36:06 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A few years ago, playing Gears of War with some friends online...
“Hey, I just switched to the black character. Now I only have to shoot these guys half as much.”
A good laugh was had by all. (we share political leanings)
It’s called, “college.”
Heh, the last video game I played (other than Solitaire, of course), was “Digger”, back in the days of DOS.
Meritocracy is racist?
Then you’re admitting that you want a tiered moral system that is inherently unfair.
Even the Borg had a Queen. So much for equality.
I think we need to reinstitute slavery - in reverse. We should round up gems like this ‘professor’ and sell them in Africa and the ME. We could pay off the national debt and simultaneously provide these poor souls with some exposure to reality which would Settle Their Minds and give them a Stable World View.
Oooooooo.
A new liberal buzz phrase, “Toxic Meritocracy”.
I wonder how long it will take them to forever link it to that other buzz phrase, “White Privilege”.
RIGHT! You should get a high score and never have even played the game!
I guess the author would advocate that advertising has no impact on the consumer. Movies, TV and video games which glamorize killing have no impact on the consumer?
Sigh war never changes
Interaction and collaboration are just two words used to drag the feeble minded and lazy liberals along.
If you want a strong organization, fire the liberals.
“A rather interesting thing to say, given that video-game players are often depicted as losers living in their parent’s basement.”
Mass media depicts gamers this way, as gamers are disengaged from mass media while they are gaming. They also become in some ways critical thinkers, and actors in changing their circumstances - all things the mass media and this malignant professor abhor.
It is interesting that Jordan Peterson actually applauds gaming for the very reasons this guy denigrates it - there is a degree of vestigal effort=reward training in most video games, almost absent in the artificial environments of mandated conformity and mediocrity many are bound in today. It is profoundly ironic, but in some instances virtual games are more atavistic and primal than urban and suburban hamster wheels.
If you like games of luck, go to a casino and play at the roulette wheel. But play with your own money.
As shown by the bridge collapse, FIU and its contractors have clearly rid themselves of the stigma of being “toxic meritocracies” and the accompanying evil of excessive rigor in engineering. All cheer diversity and AA.
OMG! What happened to his face?
The popular smartphone video game Summoner’s War is a good example of one game that fosters meritocracy. MANY adult scientist friends of mine play it - along with aerospace engineers and Ivy leaguers. It was written up in the WSJ awhile back.
“Toxic meritocracy” - how this guy got to be a professor......
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