Honestly, the college admissions application should come with a single trigger warning that covers all possible inconvenient ideas you might encounter in a university setting. Uncomfortable with that? Then don't attend. Were I entering college today, I would consider all this a reduction of what I would be exposed to in a university setting. If I'm paying for an education, I want a full education, not just the parts no one is protesting.
So you have no problem trying to exclude people based on their opinion as long as it is one you don't agree with? That seem quite hypocritical. Similar to how those who supposedly value diversity of opinion have no problem trying to dismiss other peoples opinions by calling them "crybullies".
Just the same social justice warriors who attack tech companies and want more females and minorities in STEM, but they don't take STEM classes they take classes in the liberal arts instead.
I encourage females and minorities to take STEM classes for STEM jobs and challenge themselves.
I like the litmus test that only someone with a github profile with projects of their own and commits to any projects in broad use are privvy to an opinion about tech culture.
When I see an SJC opinion on identity politics and tech, my first instinct is to check github to see if the author has ever contributed to open source or has any sizable projects of their own published. I'd guess that 99 times out of 100 they don't.
There are a lot of loudmouthed people with lots of opinions and no street cred.
Pretty much every scandal over the past few years have involved someone with little to no content in their github profile. I encourage anyone with a particular scandal in mind to go find the github profile of the person at the center of the scandal and see if they've accomplished much if anything as software engineer.
malandrew|10 years ago
gozo|10 years ago
larrys|10 years ago
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
orionblastar|10 years ago
I encourage females and minorities to take STEM classes for STEM jobs and challenge themselves.
Calling racism or sexism esp when almost none exists, there has been no evidence of racism on MU campus for six months. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/confirmed-there-is-a...
So what is the deal? If there was racism there'd be some evidence of it.
malandrew|10 years ago
When I see an SJC opinion on identity politics and tech, my first instinct is to check github to see if the author has ever contributed to open source or has any sizable projects of their own published. I'd guess that 99 times out of 100 they don't.
There are a lot of loudmouthed people with lots of opinions and no street cred.
Pretty much every scandal over the past few years have involved someone with little to no content in their github profile. I encourage anyone with a particular scandal in mind to go find the github profile of the person at the center of the scandal and see if they've accomplished much if anything as software engineer.
laughinghan|10 years ago
Your own citation:
> The Student’s Association President Payton Head said he was called the n-word.
> A group of black students said they were called the n-word by some guy in a car.
In what context is someone saying "a thing happened to me" not considered evidence that the thing happened?