Is this racism?

[Repat Van]

Jun 30, 2024 11:49:28 GMT perrykneeham said:

"A Canadian woman who fraudulently claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to three years in jail, in what is believed to be the first ever custodial sentence for a “Pretendian”.

Karima Manji, whose daughters accessed more than C$150,000 in benefits intended for Inuit, was sentenced on Thursday, after pleading guilty to fraud in February.

Nunavut justice Mia Manocchio said the case “must serve as a signal to any future Indigenous pretender that the false appropriation of Indigenous identity in a criminal context will draw a significant penalty”."

www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/28/canadian-woman-sentenced-inuit-benefit-fraud

Surely these people come for work, not stolen benefits?

Good.

(She’s a Canadian woman.)

[perrykneeham]

Nope. She's British.

[mids]

First Nations British should be given cash just like First Nations Canadians.

[mids]

I mean, this is utterly relevant to Britain today.

"This is an egregious example of the exploitation of Indigenous Peoples,"

toronto.ctvnews.ca/nunavut-judge-sentences-toronto-woman-to-3-years-prison-for-inuit-identity-fraud-1.6943280

[Repat Van]

Jun 30, 2024 18:02:58 GMT mids said:

I mean, this is utterly relevant to Britain today.

"This is an egregious example of the exploitation of Indigenous Peoples,"

toronto.ctvnews.ca/nunavut-judge-sentences-toronto-woman-to-3-years-prison-for-inuit-identity-fraud-1.6943280

Ok Mids.

*Pats Mids on head*

[Repat Van]

Jun 30, 2024 14:55:22 GMT perrykneeham said:

Nope. She's British.

Ok.

[mids]

I see student admissions at America's top universities are starting to find their level again.


"The number of black students accepted to an elite US university plummeted by two-thirds after a Supreme Court ruling banned affirmative action.

Black students made up 5 per cent of this year’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a significant slump from the 15 per cent who enrolled in 2023.

Meanwhile, the proportion of Asian American students accepted at the university jumped from 40 to 47 per cent year on year."

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/08/22/black-students-mit-fall-two-thirds-affirmative-action-ends/

[flatandy]

It's weird that all the focus is on MIT. I've seen this reported in loads of places. I wonder if nobody else has released their data yet. It does suggest that MIT's affirmative action was actually working in increasing diversity.

Of course, it wasn't doing what it actually should have done. I bet the black kids at MIT last year were largely kids of wealthy parents who grew up in school districts with the best teachers; and I bet the Asian American students at MIT this year are kids of wealthy parents who spent a fortune on schooling.

They really should always have implemented positive discrimination determined by income rather than race, but they're never going to do that in any US university because they want rich kids of any race to bring rich parents who can donate stupid amounts of cash to the university endowments.

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It is particularly interesting the 7% of the population is Asian American and 47% of the MIT class are. It does show how thick white people are. As Mids says, white people are finding their natural level.

[perrykneeham]

It seems ironic, just at the point where we'll see Kamala's tokenistic annointment.

[flatandy]

Can you elaborate on that?

Also, Kamala crushing an old white man who's floated by on privilege his whole life, whose spent his entire life with the positive discrimination of inherited wealth and the positive discrimination of being white and the positive discrimination of being a man, in an election seems to be the opposite of tokenistic anointment.

[flatandy]

Maybe you mean that, as yet another overachieving Asian American, like the 47% at MIT, she is showing how useless and thick and rubbish white people are?

[perrykneeham]

What, as opposed to Kamala's totemic rise from abject poverty? Haha. She ain't no slum dog, dawg.

[perrykneeham]

It's much the same as Obama's obvious privileged background. Barry's tomato and Kamala's tomato.

[flatandy]

Who said abject poverty? She seems to have had a relatively normal background for an Asian American. Unlike her opponent whose been given a leg up (by his bonespurs) every step of the way. Beating white men in elections, actually being more popular and more wanted than white men, suggests absolutely the opposite of tokenistic anointment.

Why are white men so pathetic and useless? What is it about being white that makes them need so much extra help?

[mids]

You're not that bad, mate. Admittedly you're a far, extreme leftist but you seem to be more or less averagely intelligent and capable. For a lefty.

[perrykneeham]

TBH, I couldn't give an m's jizz for America or its laughable politics really. Good luck to her

The alternative is an utter monster. Let's hope all supporters of Kamala toe the line.

[flatandy]

Oh, I'm brilliant. But I've still been elevated far above where I really should be, am living a life much nicer than I deserve given how little work I've done.

[Repat Van]

Aug 23, 2024 14:03:39 GMT perrykneeham said:

It's much the same as Obama's obvious privileged background. Barry's tomato and Kamala's tomato.

“Privileged”? They both seem boringly middle class. In the average for USians and definitely not Trump levels of wealth.

[perrykneeham]

Compared to the general afro-ameeican experience.

[flatandy]

By "The general Afro-American experience" do you mean getting shackled in the hold of ships and then forced to work on cotton plantations? In comparison to that then yes, privileged. In comparison to (almost?) all the white men who've held to offices of President or Vice-President, probably not.

Neither of them got all the extra helping hands that Donald J Trump has had (or that, say, David Cameron or Boris Johnson had) helping them up all the way through their lives.