Racism - Always and Forever

I thought it was something you had said before?

And you just sort of strike me as someone who wouldn't like Aristotle. Because you're from a railroad town.

 

He was a beggar for the bottle.

 

No, it is not.

 

Ah-ha!

 

As russ has accurately surmised, I was drunk posting.

 

Avoid the hemlock.

 

Drunk posting is best posting!

 

Not Ari. He skipped that trip to the stoa...

 

That's right I guess, but if we go for 5% poc of the votes for the idiot, we still are talking about 3 million poc voting for him.

 

The clueless demographic is pretty large, and pretty clueless.

It is structurally important that everybody's opinion be treated as just as valid as everybody else's-- and that encourages a substantial number of people to think their opinion should actually be accepted as valid despite almost no effort to formulate opinions of any validity at all.

Hilary Clinton eats babies under a pizza parlor, and Donald Trump drains swamps...

 

Is there truth in this?

"“It’s morally bankrupt,” Garthwaite said. “The NCAA wants it to be ‘amateur’ for the athletes, but none of the rules of amateurism to apply to all the other people in the system.”"

and on how money made off football and basketball players gets funneled elsewhere:

"The students playing those sports tend to be Whiter and hail from wealthier neighborhoods than those who play football and basketball. Black students constitute nearly 60 percent of the rosters of football and basketball teams, and just 11 percent of the rosters of all other sports. Similar racial dynamics are apparent among coaches."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/07/ncaa-student-athletes-pay-equity/

 

Yeah, that's pretty much how it works.

 

The word "funnel" is doing alot of work in that quote.

 

So the NCAA is a kind of forced labour organisation.

 

At the top levels yes.
Minor College sports are essentially a signal to corporations that someone coming out of college is capable of handling multiple tasks.

 

Football/basketball at the top level is how a small number of players go pro. All schools sell the dream but only a few have it come true.

 

I went out for a run yesterday and when I came back our Black Lives Matter flag (and flagpole!) had been nicked.

 

Education in America (except for BIA / BIE) schools is typically funded by a combination of state / local funding.

Typically, states fund staff costs for teachers / administration / support staff bia general revenue taxation, and facilities are funded by revenue to school districts via property taxes. Federal funding is mostly spent on enforcement of civil rights to school districts that either discriminate or underfund programs.

BIA / BIE schools are funded be a combination of tribal revenue (when available) and funds appropriated from federal tax revenue

 

When I was young man a headhunter I knew said to me "why donot you go to the States to study a one or two years. You easily can get a scholarship as you're good at soccer." He himself had done it and said I was far better soccer player than he was. I didnot trust it. Why on earth would they pay (a part of) my study for playing soccer I thought.