[308] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Affirmative Action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sourav K. Mandal)
Sat Apr 28 21:10:45 2001
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From: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
Reply-To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:10:16 -0400
"Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>" wrote:
> This "agitator" believes that actually the majority of men
> are *extremely* sexist based on a study that found 51-60% of
> college men said they would RAPE a woman if they knew they would not
> be caught. [...]
This figure seems at once horrifying and implausible. Please provide a
reference, whereby I might examine the statistical methodology used.
> [...] Black people make up ~13% of drug users, 30% of
> those arrested for drug related infractions, 50% of those *convicted*
> for such infractions and 70% of those incarcerated. If this isn't
> structural, govt sponsored bias, what is? [...]
Finally, you are right about something! The War on Drugs is immoral
and racist, no doubt.
> [...] How
> does that make you feel, white men, to know that you may very well
> have gotten in to MIT and had many other opportunities opened to you
> on account of being white and/or male? [...]
Wow -- I must be feeling *a lot* of guilt, being a grandson and son to
remarkable men and women. Obviously, it's not right that able people
would love me and give me every advantage they could muster. Oh, and
my authentic Aryan (from the Sanskrit "arjja" -- "noble alien") descent
must make my deplorable situation a double whammy.
Where do I sign up to flagellate myself in an attempt to rid me of this
Black Plague called "excellence?" Do I need to register with the
Church of Socialized Theft?
> [...] And indigenous
> people who survived have the double burden of having to learn and
> participate in their own culture as well as having to become proficient
> at navigating the occupying culture in order to defend what tiny
> fraction of rights and autonomy remains. [...]
Doesn't this apply to immigrants as well? Or, only non-Asian ones?
> By the way, Ayn Rand was also in denial... and she makes fiction that
> depicts a woman who enjoyed her own rape... I have NO trust in her
> view of humanity...
Please read more carefully. Just because it is rumored that Ayn Rand
enjoyed rough sex (there is indeed ample evidence in her fiction), does
not mean that a) she endorsed rape or b) that this subjective
preference is in any way essential to her philosophy.
> [...] and I don't have much trust who put all their faith in
> *one* human being as their fountain of truth, but that's just me...
Objectivism is unique in this regard, in that it is constructed from
principles, not revealed (like Christ->Christianity, Mohammed->Islam,
etc.). As such, there is no need to place faith. She was right about
many things, wrong about a few things, and achieved a great deal --
that's all there is to it.
> No gods, no masters!
Truth, reason, excellence, beauty!
Sourav
PS: Why don't you come make your rants at "spa-discuss"? The good
denizens of "mit-talk" seem to be irked by your nonsense, and responses
to it.
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