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Yes, it means most likely
1) Your parents donate a *****load of money to build a lab, a recroom, auditorium,etc
2) Your grandparents and your parents are alumni, who regularly contribute..
3) an affirmative action
4) you invented an eternal engine, finally! Or cured all cancer
Or your parents are has-been celebs with connections now giving the country (and world) reason for schadenfreude on your pending imprisonment. Pass the popcorn.
That's only to the Ivy League thing, I'm not weighing-in on the OP subject, y'all got that covered. Or not.
Yes, it means most likely
1) Your parents donate a *****load of money to build a lab, a recroom, auditorium,etc
2) Your grandparents and your parents are alumni, who regularly contribute..
3) an affirmative action
4) you invented an eternal engine, finally! Or cured all cancer
Or someone worked really hard in grade and high school...
personally, I think we need to make the internet NOT anonymous. Maybe someone can tell me one good reason that UserID's should be maskable/cutesie/whatever you feel like making it today
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Originally Posted by greenie72
We are in the same NextDoor.
I've been watching both with interest, to compare the responses.
A few people did ask the same questions about boycotting, questioning the situation.
No one on ND brought politics into it, called names or got nasty at all.
It appears it proved my thought, that my ND neighborhood (and all nearby ones too, not just my immediate neighborhood) is much more civilized than C-D when there are emotions involved.
It's always entertaining when people say something like this...
...in the same thread where they say things like this...
anyone that reads this thread and doesn't consider that poster to be "part of the problem" is probably part of the problem themselves. Similarly, I would say that anyone that wants to claim those who have any concerns or questions about what happened must be racist/privileged/blind to reality ... they're an equal part of the problem.
Your original point was that we should trust an Ivy Leaguer probably couldn’t have misunderstood the situation. That was the point I objected to.
Ehhh. My point was that he is intelligent, and likely analyzed the situation in a proper manner. I brought this up because the first 5 pages are full of people claiming he saw racism where none existed. I'll put my money on the 26 year old IVY league grad that was present. That was my point.
Ehhh. My point was that he is intelligent, and likely analyzed the situation in a proper manner. I brought this up because the first 5 pages are full of people claiming he saw racism where none existed. I'll put my money on the 26 year old IVY league grad that was present. That was my point.
Well there are numerous examples of over educated folks thinking they know everything except they lack basic common sense.
One phone call to the PD could've answered the WHY, but why do that, it's way cooler to post on forums and humble brag to spin up the citizenship.
I meant that the son, who experienced it, could question police motives and procedures, and draw conclusions. I’m
Of course, we all have the right to our opinions, but certainly the person who is the focus of police investigation has a unique right to draw conclusions about how his experience.
He could question police motives if he thought police targeted him without (or with minimal) cause. I didn’t get the impression the parent thought that though. The parent seems to place the most blame on Starbucks and the customers. I’m trying to square that with the facts known and am getting an error message.
Ehhh. My point was that he is intelligent, and likely analyzed the situation in a proper manner. I brought this up because the first 5 pages are full of people claiming he saw racism where none existed. I'll put my money on the 26 year old IVY league grad that was present. That was my point.
The only possible racism involved was the initial person who called the police. But that person seems to be invisible, and an Ivy League education can’t conjure up info on an unknown assailant (such as it is). Otherwise there is nothing else. The parent seems to think Starbucks and customers should have done something but has not expressed exactly what and therefore we are left with lots of questions and no answers. Yale is great. It can’t do whatever it is you think it can in this situation.
Well there are numerous examples of over educated folks thinking they know everything except they lack basic common sense.
One phone call to the PD could've answered the WHY, but why do that, it's way cooler to post on forums and humble brag to spin up the citizenship.
And my response to that is you are right, there are some educated people that are ignorant or tone def or whatever you want to call it, but that science has proven there is a correlation between educational attainment and intelligence, and because of that I'm prone to believe that take of the intelligent man who lived through the experience. We on the same page now?
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It's always entertaining when people say something like this...
