Posted on 02/01/2023 1:46:51 PM PST by Twotone
In a world where hard work and rational thinking are conflated with “whiteness,” it makes sense that prohibitions on cheating would be characterized as systemically racist. That’s precisely the “anti-racist” hill one Princeton University sophomore chose to proverbially die upon.
In an article for Princeton’s college newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, sophomore Emilly Santos argues that “American systems of legal administration enact violence against minority populations,” which includes the criminal justice system. “Princeton’s Honor Code, tasked with holding students accountable and honest in academic settings, mirrors the criminal justice system in its rules and effects.”
Santos then outlines that the disciplinary actions imposed — such as suspension, withholding of financial aid, a record on your transcript, or even expulsion — on students who violate the honor code affect minority or “first-generation low-income (FLI) students” the most, whom she argues are unprepared at navigating such a system in the first place. As such, Santos recommends that “the University should lead by example by dismantling the Honor Code system, which acts as a barrier to social mobility and a more equitable society.”
That prohibitions on cheating and plagiarizing are now conflated with systemic racism shows how effectively propagandized the nation’s allegedly best and brightest — at Ivy League schools, no less — have become. That Santos seriously recommends dismantling the honor code solely for racial “equity” implies she believes low-income minority students must cheat or plagiarize to excel academically at Princeton. In other words, Santos is engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations at the expense of her college classmates.
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If you need to cheat to compete at college, maybe you shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Ivy League - LOL. More like Poison Ivy League.
Buying white cars is racist and not being able to cheat is racist.
“Thou shalt not murder” is racist.
That explains SO much.
In other words, they never had to suffer repercussions for their past behavior so they shouldn’t have to now that they are in college. It’s racist to expect them to do so.
And voila, just like that, the entire system will acquiesce to the demands. And anyone who questions the change will be dealt with severely.
But-nut-but, I cheated to get INTO this college, and now you tell me I can’t cheat to graduate?
Jesus wept
All these equity, diversity and affirmative action efforts have been a disaster for everyone. Color blind meritocracy is the only viable policy for any culture.
Dark Ages II coming soon.
It will figure in monuMENTALly.
“Sophomore,” meaning “wise fool”….
Everything is racists these days. We keep going down this road and America is over.
Dark Ages II coming soon.
Apparently, the dark ages are already here, unfortunately.
Ah, for a country led by the wisdom of college sophomores! Emilly appears not to realize that you can't cheat your way toward "equity" because some people will be better at it than others. Still, it's comforting to learn that honesty and getting correct answers to test questions are Whiteness in action. Usually you only hear that one at Klan rallies.
I went to a college with an honor code, and yet somehow I did not live in fear of it. Instead, it didn’t affect me at all, because I wasn’t planning to cheat in the first place.
Stop the world I want to get off.
Or if you are a first generation college student, you may not be prepared for an Ivy League college or university (many are), then go to a state college or university.
Is that the only way the affirmative action type can pass?
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