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She might want to crack open a history book before treating an entire language like a national security threat. Christianity was established in the Middle East centuries before Islam even existed. Christians were speaking Arabic before Islam emerged in the seventh century. What an idiot.

Hold up. You want to understand why Arab nations are politically fragmented, but you want to dismiss colonialism because you don't like the idea of white Europeans being held responsible for anything? Bruh, history doesn't work that way. You say Europeans managed to build away their ethnic...

Maybe Trump will become an asset to the Democratic Party now. After all, the man hates losers. And judging by the midterm results, that's the Republicans.

So because you showed up late to the discussion, I’m supposed to rewind the whole damn conversation and explain how we got here? Nigga, please.

Oh? What part of “this discussion” and “where Derec loses me” suggested I was talking about the entire world? You were so eager to climb onto your high horse that you mistook your mouth for the stirrup.

I think Tony’s mistake was saying “impossible,” and Emily seems to be treating “possible” as if all that Jim Crow shit was just decorative. Also, Tony’s story goes from the Great Depression to buying a house in the early ’60s. How did we get to “the last half century”?

Ahh, so my derail callout was outside its jurisdiction. That explains a lot. ;)

The guest list for the Uncle Ruckus family reunion doesn’t verify someone’s conveniently recurring anonymous friends are real. ;)

Maybe Asian doctors are applying to work in underserved communities but keep receiving suspiciously low “personality scores” from the hiring committees. :unsure: Joking aside, I suspect much of this reflects people wanting to serve their own communities. That could also help explain some...

This is the strongest point of them all. I wonder whether anyone has actually looked at it and whether it could be cross-referenced with other available data. I’m not brainy enough to do that analysis myself, but I’m also brainy enough not to jump to conclusions based on the existing data alone. ;)

They are being discriminated against if race itself is being used to advantage or disadvantage applicants in the admissions process, regardless of the overall acceptance rate. It sounds stupid at first, but when you actually think it through, it makes sense. In Students for Fair Admissions v...

But merely listing other criteria doesn't explain a systematic disparity!! Merely listing race does!

Maybe GPA's can explain how one 509 MCATs is rejected over another. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is actually the part of the argument I find more interesting. I don’t have a problem saying that if a school is explicitly giving someone an advantage because of race, that’s a thumb on the scale. I’m against that. However we can't look at racial averages and act as though we can...

I appreciate the opportunity to clarify. My point wasn't that Derec is secretly racist, and it wasn't about women in general. That's exactly why changing “White women” to “women” changes the argument. I'm talking specifically about the framing in this thread. The title is “MCATs, Affirmative...