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A practical example

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc...ation-45979234
It is a terrible precedent. I completely disagree with Geoff Thompson. Also, who cannot afford to graduate? There is a loans system for those who go to University and what does that person have to do with slavery that was abolished a very long time ago? I have a local friend here who did not go to University because his Dad died young and he got a job and worked his way up. You don't have to go to University and if you do then you can save up and then go or you can take out loans. The idea that it has anything to do with slavery is ridiculous. It is insulting to the people of today as it is basically saying that they cannot compete without a hand held out. It is condescending.

Living in the past is no way to get ahead for the future. It is a dichotomy I see in the left. They are almost scared to let people rise or fall on their own merits and those alone.
Wow. Seconds later and you revert to the same conditioning. You adore the idea that everyone is looking for handouts while you are a shining example of what you presume is a level playing field. You are not mate. Wake up. You are an able bodied straight white male and even in South Korea that means you do have advantages others do not. In fact i would argue more so and that is maybe why you choose not to do the same job here. Universities are businesses that often make a lot of money and if one chooses to use some of that money to support students not like you then why does it bother you so much?

It is like you bullshit "Society provides enough for the disadvantaged already" lie.

It is something you trot out to avoid engaging with the realities of OTHER people's lives.

Nobody but you is talking about living in the past. People are talking about facing up to the past and moving on. You meanwhile are in denial. start thinking for yourself. Don't give up now at your age and just repeat crap from people who could not even graduate from the course you teach.

"Living in the past is no way to get ahead for the future. It is a dichotomy I see in the left. They are almost scared to let people rise or fall on their own merits and those alone."

That is not you speaking. It is just you repeating rubbish. You are on the one hand telling us all about the importance of tradition and the values inherited from something of which you have little knowledge and then telling us to dismiss the past and history. Then you are lumping anyone who doesn't agree with your plastic soundbite arguments of being from 'The Left'. That is just daft.


There is no acknowledgement of people's merits from you or your denial buddies though is there? The automatic response is laughter, derision, stereotyping, etc.



Read the article and educate yourself - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ations/361631/