It seems like men are not welcome anymore in educational institutions such as universities and so on. [...] But then again, they were all men. So they would be called lots of bad names. — User34x
Gonna need some stats here or this thread gets closed. — StreetlightX
What does "equity" mean - an equal number of each race and sex which isn't representative of the local population or an unequal number of each race and sex that is representative of the local population?Elsewise, looks a bit like folk noticing their previous privilege and not liking a bit of equity. — Banno
The former will allocate unequal power to each individual, and the latter allocates power evenly to each individual. It seems like we are headed for the former-where certain groups are over-represented, while others are under-represented. I thought that was what we were trying get away from. It seems that people like you really aren't interested in equity at all, just more of the same of one group oppressing others. You are essentially fighting racism with racism. — Harry Hindu
It seems like men are not welcome anymore in educational institutions such as universities and so on. This is especially true if you are a fit, healthy male, whereas men who can demonstrate some kind of disability are welcome to some degree, but are often marginalised and made to feel inferior throughout their educational experience. I wonder why this is the case? — User34x
It seems like men are not welcome anymore in educational institutions such as universities and so on. — User34x
This is especially true if you are a fit, healthy male, whereas men who can demonstrate some kind of disability are welcome to some degree — User34x
Elsewise, looks a bit like folk noticing their previous privilege and not liking a bit of equity. — Banno
The "University", or as the ancients called it, "the Academy", had never been a place of impartiality. The goal has always been to teach those fortunate, what went according to the intellectual absolute of the time - classical age: moral and tradition, medieval age: metaphysics, and dogma, modern age: reason and logic, contemporary age: knowledge gnosticism, and revisionism -.
And contrary to what many claim, Universities work much more easily and practically when they are homogeneous in thought and purpose.
Something that wants to defend and express to everyone, ends up defending and expressing nothing. — Gus Lamarch
[for the USA] Public schools [we]re designed to produce durable cogs for the wheels of industry. — Tres Bien
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