I was surprised. I expected Bryn Mawr to be a lot whiter than it actually is.
This isn't my thinking. I don't think any particular college needs to reflect some underlying population at a local, state, or national level. But it's the stated goal of people who talk about diversity, equity and inclusion.
Just yours. You specifically honed in on how white people were represented without even citing the correct figure, and without actually stopping to question whether your observation makes sense.
Even if I had misread the figure (I simply googled 'demographics pennsylvania', read the 'white alone' percent, and believed it corresponded to the same category of 'white' that Bryn Mawr reports), but I can hardly see how doing that makes no sense.
Rather than ask Toni for clarification, you made an assumption about her post,
Yes, I probably should have, but I feel Toni meant only to make a glib post that was somehow meant to dismiss my OP and was not really interested in following up. But, perhaps she will, especially if she wants people to understand what she meant by 'zero surprises'.
then responded based on that assumption, then fucked up that response anyway.
Of course I responded on that assumption, but the 'fuck up' was to not visit the page google returned its table from, not some monumental error in my thinking.
You were 'surprised' by the number you found, but perhaps had your inquisitiveness extended beyond the notion that white people are less represented in admissions or on campus than one might think, you'd have gotten far enough to realize the percentage of white students probably shouldn't actually be that surprising.
I was surprised because Toni's comment set up an expectation that Bryn Mawr was particularly white. It isn't.
Yes. I mean, you tried to map Bryn Mawr's admission statistics to the state of Pennsylvania's racial demographics when it doesn't exactly make sense to do so.
I'm simply applying the same thinking the progressive left does. I agree that there is no reason for Bryn Mawr or any college should reflect the demographic distribution of some underlying population.
But beyond that, you didn't even do it properly at a basic level.
I hastily quoted the 'white alone' result from google, yes. But I did not make an underlying mistake about the rest of my reasoning. I was applying the logic of the progressive left.
