They will say this regardless.
Who cares anymore. Their complaints are endless and the same.
CNN
Complaining
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Network
I’m 66. Up until the time I was about 20, I assumed women and blacks in professional and high-level positions were extremely competent because not only did they master the relevant subject matter, but they also had to break through the old-boy network (I’m not saying that was right, it was just the way it was).
What changed for me at 20 was seeing some of the people who were let into my husband’s PhD program though affirmative action - and seeing some of the affirmative-action faculty hires. I went from assuming high competence for those groups to assuming low competence.
And, yeah, people are okay with allowing the best to participate in sports but not in academics. Years ago, our school district stopped having different levels of various courses. My neighbor was happy about it because now her son wouldn’t feel bad about not being in the “top” math group. But she was fine with her son making the track team and mine not.
I’m 66. Up until the time I was about 20, I assumed women and blacks in professional and high-level positions were extremely competent because not only did they master the relevant subject matter, but they also had to break through the old-boy network (I’m not saying that was right, it was just the way it was).
What changed for me at 20 was seeing some of the people who were let into my husband’s PhD program though affirmative action - and seeing some of the affirmative-action faculty hires. I went from assuming high competence for those groups to assuming low competence.
And, yeah, people are okay with allowing the best to participate in sports but not in academics. Years ago, our school district stopped having different levels of various courses. My neighbor was happy about it because now her son wouldn’t feel bad about not being in the “top” math group. But she was fine with her son making the track team and mine not.