I’m Asian and we’re statistically over-represented in higher education (so much so that we’re basically discriminated against by college admissions boards who are afraid of white people not being the majority anymore…but that’s another story). So we’re sorta, kinda in the same boat as white people as far as not being heavily recruited by colleges.
Yet I still got plenty of grants and scholarships because my family was too poor to pay the full tuition and other costs. If you’re a decent student and your family’s income qualifies you for financial aid, then you’ll get it…particularly if you attend a school with a need-blind admissions policy and generous student aid fund.
I knew poor white kids at my alma mater who basically received full rides. How the hell do racist whiners explain that?
But they had to go looking for the money. It doesn’t come and find you. If you stop bitching for a minute about minorities stealing the resources that you supposedly deserve and actually put the work into filling out those FAFSA and scholarship applications, then you can get funding for college too.
P.S. Only certain white people seem to think that they have automatic dibs on admissions to their college of choice. No, that black/Latin/Native person did not take “your” spot—that spot never fucking belonged to you in the first place.
"…as Mr Beck himself says, he simply didn’t learn very much about history or political science in school, and just began reading on his own a few years ago. If you try to teach yourself history and political science from scratch, you’re likely to draw a lot of shallow and inaccurate conclusions, particularly when you’re the sort of person who’s predisposed to seeing things in terms of white hats and black hats. One role of instructors, particularly at the college level, is to smack down the sweeping generalisations and facile analogies their students tend to make, and try to force them to adopt more rigorous and complicated approaches. But what if you’re surrounded by people who reward you handsomely for making sweeping, slanderous generalisations, both because it delivers ratings and because it’s ideologically helpful?"
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A good piece from The Economist about Glenn Beck’s constant invocations of Nazism and Hitler. The quoted passage in particular stood out to me.
Just think about it, folks: If Beck had gotten a liberal arts degree way back when, then we might not be hearing him rant about Nazis and socialism today. He might be quoting Ayn Rand instead.
(via theeconomist)
