“Lemon’s response: “Do you understand how by saying just that standards are being lowered that you're implying that they're being lowered because people are less skilled and less intelligent, and you're talking about people of color?”
If the above is an incorrect statement, would somebody please explain to me the reason that qualification standards either have been lowered or eliminated for entry to almost everything in this society that requires the least amount of knowledge or competence except incarceration?
A few years ago a soon-to-be graduate of Mt Sinai in NYC who was to start a highly sought-after dermatology residency accused the selection process for Alpha Omega Alpha( AOA) of racism because blacks were underrepresented. AOA is the medical school equivalent of phi beta kappa. Basic requirement is ranking in the top 15% of one’s class.
The utility of AOA ( apart from a wall decoration) is in obtaining competitive residencies. The complaint came from a double-box checker(black female).
If she were on a line to get into heaven, she would moan about the line.
The civil rights movement gave us affirmative action. It is common to hear conservatives bemoan the latter while extoling the former. We don't seem to understand that compulsory integration of any kind will necessarily displace and diminish white people.
They say comedy show is dead because too much politics and never stopping Trump bashing. Indeed, but who cares, we got Ann to keep us laughing really really hard. This time this line "football players and Jared Kushner" - OMG so funny. I don't need comedy show at all. I just read her article and listen to Mark Simone and other shows, and bonus point being I learn politics, too.
My 50 year old son had triple valve heart surgery in Plano, Texas, January 2023. His third surgery-due to congenital aortic stenosis- and pacer dependent since his teens, was performed by 2 surgeons and a cardiac fellow. These physicians SAVED my son’s life, as his aorta ruptured initially and he lost half of his blood volume. Was also on heart/lung bypass for 10 hours. NO ONE
will ever convince me or my SON to lower standards! EXCELLENCE and MERITOCRACY should
I know this piece was mostly about affirmative action and med schools, but the one Lemon gaffe that needs constant reminder is his Malaysian Flight 370 Black Hole theory. Interestingly enough, a former pilot just revealed his theory that the suicidal Jihadi terrorist 370 pilot dived the plane into an ocean quake fault line with a specific path. That aside, Jared never needed anything more than his weasel cunning family real estate operation and his Saudi money, that he really should be using for Trump’s Leticia James bond.
Ketanji Brown Jackson on the 1st Amendment. This is what you get from token diversity hires.
"My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods,"
While there are plenty of high-vis cases where sex/race/sexual orientation trumped competency and merit (say, for instance, Kara Hultgreen flipping her F-14 into the Gulf of Mexico @ 29:30 https://youtu.be/Ly9mvfOh0Fk). There are some not so visible cases which the authorities have buried.
I will relate you just one I'm aware of. My former boss, a lobbyist for a state Chamber, Harvard PhD in economics, gave me this one. During that dustup in Kosovo in '99, I think Clinton was Pres at the time, both my boss and his two children were stationed on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean doing real-time translation of radio intercepts, as between them they were fluent in about 9 Slavic languages.
Apparently, the US Major in charge of daily targeting (Belgrade and surrounding areas) was pulled away for a 2-day mandatory sensitivity class. He tried to get out of it, but no. He was replaced by a minority female who promptly had the Chinese embassy in Belgrade bombed the next day.
I don't know how close we came to war with the Chinese at that point, I'd even heard the US did it on purpose because there was a communications center in the basement. But Jesus of Nazareth, why would we risk war with China over a stupid war in eastern Europe? (And aren't we're worse now?)
Anyway, for what it's worth. We now live in a world where competency is a nice-to-have, but not mandatory. Better to hire a blind lesbian Inuit and check as many boxes as possible.
During my school days I was at best an average student. Partially due to working the night shift at UPS & feeling like warmed over death at 8am. I would have loved a pass-fail option luckily for everyone I was not in medical school. Looks like Mr. Limon benefited from the
pass-fail option, he certainly taught a Masters class on how to get fired my Musk.
"The only CNN on-air personality to handle himself worse was Jeffrey Toobin." A single sentence worth the cost of a year's subscription.
The left will always say there's no evidence that affirmative action kills because they refuse to look at any evidence that demonstrates it does.
Lemon has Supreme Court nominee vibes - just needs to pretend to be a woman
“Lemon’s response: “Do you understand how by saying just that standards are being lowered that you're implying that they're being lowered because people are less skilled and less intelligent, and you're talking about people of color?”
If the above is an incorrect statement, would somebody please explain to me the reason that qualification standards either have been lowered or eliminated for entry to almost everything in this society that requires the least amount of knowledge or competence except incarceration?
A few years ago a soon-to-be graduate of Mt Sinai in NYC who was to start a highly sought-after dermatology residency accused the selection process for Alpha Omega Alpha( AOA) of racism because blacks were underrepresented. AOA is the medical school equivalent of phi beta kappa. Basic requirement is ranking in the top 15% of one’s class.
The utility of AOA ( apart from a wall decoration) is in obtaining competitive residencies. The complaint came from a double-box checker(black female).
If she were on a line to get into heaven, she would moan about the line.
The civil rights movement gave us affirmative action. It is common to hear conservatives bemoan the latter while extoling the former. We don't seem to understand that compulsory integration of any kind will necessarily displace and diminish white people.
They say comedy show is dead because too much politics and never stopping Trump bashing. Indeed, but who cares, we got Ann to keep us laughing really really hard. This time this line "football players and Jared Kushner" - OMG so funny. I don't need comedy show at all. I just read her article and listen to Mark Simone and other shows, and bonus point being I learn politics, too.
Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon should do a podcast together, Call it "The Low IQ Bro's"!
Don Lemon clearly demonstrated that he is too low IQ to process rational thought and deductive reasoning; He's literally incapable.
Perhaps Musk should have referenced this gem-
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/us/babys-head-detached-during-delivery-ruled-homicide/index.html
My 50 year old son had triple valve heart surgery in Plano, Texas, January 2023. His third surgery-due to congenital aortic stenosis- and pacer dependent since his teens, was performed by 2 surgeons and a cardiac fellow. These physicians SAVED my son’s life, as his aorta ruptured initially and he lost half of his blood volume. Was also on heart/lung bypass for 10 hours. NO ONE
will ever convince me or my SON to lower standards! EXCELLENCE and MERITOCRACY should
not be erased to fill quotas!!!
Mary Lou A
"In 2021, the average white score on the MCAT was at the 71stpercentile. The average black score was at the 31stpercentile"
Excellent article. Thanks.
I know this piece was mostly about affirmative action and med schools, but the one Lemon gaffe that needs constant reminder is his Malaysian Flight 370 Black Hole theory. Interestingly enough, a former pilot just revealed his theory that the suicidal Jihadi terrorist 370 pilot dived the plane into an ocean quake fault line with a specific path. That aside, Jared never needed anything more than his weasel cunning family real estate operation and his Saudi money, that he really should be using for Trump’s Leticia James bond.
Ketanji Brown Jackson on the 1st Amendment. This is what you get from token diversity hires.
"My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods,"
While there are plenty of high-vis cases where sex/race/sexual orientation trumped competency and merit (say, for instance, Kara Hultgreen flipping her F-14 into the Gulf of Mexico @ 29:30 https://youtu.be/Ly9mvfOh0Fk). There are some not so visible cases which the authorities have buried.
I will relate you just one I'm aware of. My former boss, a lobbyist for a state Chamber, Harvard PhD in economics, gave me this one. During that dustup in Kosovo in '99, I think Clinton was Pres at the time, both my boss and his two children were stationed on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean doing real-time translation of radio intercepts, as between them they were fluent in about 9 Slavic languages.
Apparently, the US Major in charge of daily targeting (Belgrade and surrounding areas) was pulled away for a 2-day mandatory sensitivity class. He tried to get out of it, but no. He was replaced by a minority female who promptly had the Chinese embassy in Belgrade bombed the next day.
I don't know how close we came to war with the Chinese at that point, I'd even heard the US did it on purpose because there was a communications center in the basement. But Jesus of Nazareth, why would we risk war with China over a stupid war in eastern Europe? (And aren't we're worse now?)
Anyway, for what it's worth. We now live in a world where competency is a nice-to-have, but not mandatory. Better to hire a blind lesbian Inuit and check as many boxes as possible.
During my school days I was at best an average student. Partially due to working the night shift at UPS & feeling like warmed over death at 8am. I would have loved a pass-fail option luckily for everyone I was not in medical school. Looks like Mr. Limon benefited from the
pass-fail option, he certainly taught a Masters class on how to get fired my Musk.