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Dilbert_X wrote:

uziq wrote:

i really don’t know why you have to denigrate the subjects when the problem is people skipping through university as a privileged rite of passage. they don’t apply themselves; they’re not scholars or motivated by intellectual passions. why do you have to invalidate an entire discipline composed of actual, serious scholars? it’s an inane projection on your part.
Well really its the same as if driving examiners said "Look, you're not going to be a driving examiner yourself, just give me fifty quid and you can have your licence no questions asked"

It brings the whole system into question doesn't it?
erm. no. 

undergraduate degrees are not the totally of a discipline. you mong.
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erm, yes

Just getting a driving licence isn't the totality of the discipline, some people go on to be race car drivers.
You average bread and butter car driver is trivial, relatively speaking.
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breaking news: most people can pass an undergraduate degree if they apply themselves and work at it. it’s not some feat of scholarship.

i’ve said above at exhaustive length that most of my peers from undergrad pivoted away from ‘literary scholarship’ of undergrad essays and have had full and engaging careers in sometimes totally unrelated fields.
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uziq wrote:

breaking news: most people can pass an undergraduate degree if they apply themselves and work at it.
But apparently some people don't need to apply themselves or work at it, they get a free pass.
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they’ve had the most expensive education literally that money can buy. nothing more expensive than an english boarding school education. it at least gets you into a top-tier uni by default. their exam results are finely tuned. something like 95% of all their students graduate with 11 A*s to As. are you going to criticise the national exam system next?

this class of people have learned to game the system. how does it call academic disciplines into disrepute? your analysis sucks, i’m sorry. think deeper.

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What they've learned is they can game the system by having universities set up courses just for them and giving them a free ride.

Of course it brings the system into disrepute.
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humanities degrees as a whole? because of PPE at oxford? get your head checked.
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But its the same departments and same lecturers no?
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PPE is not an academic field of research. just stop with this fucking inane conversation. oh my god. don’t you get bored? you’ve been playing this jew’s harp tune for years.
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No-one listens, now Britain is broken.

I tried to warn them, my conscience is clear.
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Dilbert_X wrote:

What they've learned is they can game the system by having universities set up courses just for them and giving them a free ride.

Of course it brings the system into disrepute.
is that why you hate asians dominating western universities?
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don't get into the reeds of dilbert's pseudo-scientific 'racialist' worldviews. the Asian IQ versus the Indian skull shape versus the intrinsic White genius.

enough to make you feel vertigos of confusion and nonsense.
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"West Point will remove Confederate symbols from its campus"
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/11451079 … bert-e-lee

When I first read the headline I thought "That is unnecessary. It will alienate and divide the military." Then it dawned on me that the military is just reacting to the larger culture it is a part of. I think the military has a place separate from the civil society it serves but there is no good reason why the military shouldn't adopt the symbols of the nation and remove symbols that no longer resonate with civil society.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
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It bothers me how the space between the blocks intersect or brush up against some of the letters.
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I hope somebody got fired for that.
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