Disgusting display of Racism

VincentHanna · 30 Jul 2021 at 07:57

Jimmeh said:
May I ask why you provided a screenshot of this and not a link to the Tweet?

Have you met the running man? He always does this.

Colonel_Klinck · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:12

Caracus2k said:
He is clearly an inspiration to black youth...

OMG you are quoting lyrics? You know that is a form of art right. Its not a manifesto. I can listen to hip hop, it doesn't make me want to become a gangster. It isn't literal instructions :cry:

I'd say using his money for scholarships is inspirational. Its an act of philanthropy.

dlockers · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:12

Nitefly said:
I’m not flat out against schemes that aim to promote social mobility and diversity in education and professions. In this case, I’m not sure how much social mobility / diversity is being affected…. They are all at Cambridge with places, right?

Good for them I guess.

Zefan said:
It isn't helping social mobility at all; it's misplaced resources at best, and a virtue signal at worst. Having a place at Cambridge is arguably one of the most "privileged" positions a young person can be in, they're the last people who are going to be worrying about their student finance.

What a colossally odd thing to say. Can you explain what you mean here?

The idea behind scholarships, in the UK at least, and at university level, is that they attract talent that may well go elsewhere. The article states the idea is to attract more folk who wouldn't even consider going to Cambridge. The scholarship, like many, is just a perk.

I know several MDs whose kids are exceptionally clever due to their headstart (read: massive investment) and the fee paying schools they attend offer massive kick backs as the kids are worth more than the fee to the school e.g. country level competitions, academic trajectory etc. So they all get some form or scholarship they've had to apply to.

Terminal_Boy · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:14

They’re all going to study STEM subjects, right? Not PPE and Gender Studies?

Roar87 · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:21

I think actually what Stormzy did was incredibly racist, to use skin colour as the deciding factor of whether you will fund some ones scholarship is flat out wrong. The stupid thing is he could've just donated the money to students from a particular underprivileged area, even if that happened to be mostly black people, and it would have been fine. I don't think filtering kids by skin colour is ever justifiable.

BDEE · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:27

[FnG]magnolia said:
I'm a bit late to the outrage party but great to see the standard frothers frothing away. I particularly liked the appeal to Martin Luther King by some of our more predictable members, without any hint of self-awareness or irony

e: a cast list appears!

19 posts Dis86

10 posts BallistixOnZ490

7 posts Cooler running

5 posts The Running Man

5 posts james.miller

3 posts silvagti

3 posts jsmoke

3 posts thenewoc

Page 5. Have a word with yourself, Mags. Clearly a poor effort at least three pages too late. You have let us all down.

neil_g · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:27

Good grief GD.

Zefan · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:29

dLockers said:
The idea behind scholarships, in the UK at least, and at university level, is that they attract talent that may well go elsewhere. The article states the idea is to attract more folk who wouldn't even consider going to Cambridge. The scholarship, like many, is just a perk.

I know several MDs whose kids are exceptionally clever due to their headstart (read: massive investment) and the fee paying schools they attend offer massive kick backs as the kids are worth more than the fee to the school e.g. country level competitions, academic trajectory etc. So they all get some form or scholarship they've had to apply to.

I understand your point, in that institutions may decide to award scholarships based on a student's value, but I think it's easy to see that this is not exclusively the case (almost all the scholarships I've seen are for people from unfortunate economic backgrounds) and it's certainly not the the case in this instance. The reason I say this is because it isn't the school doing it, and race is not a morally or legally valid way to determine how much a person is "worth".

Roar87 · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:33

Efour said:
Lol

neil_g said:
Good grief GD.

Can we delete posts like this that add nothing to the conversation, it's literally spamming

Yaayuh! · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:33

neil_g said:
Good grief GD.

It certainly is a new low.

chroniclard · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:34

The white raging safe space lovers becoming far far worse than the woke now. :cry:

neil_g · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:36

Roar87 said:
Can we delete posts like this that add nothing to the conversation, it's literally spamming

as apposed to the constant frothing posts about minority groups? its embarrassing. what new members think when they sign up I dont know.

Ayahuasca · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:38

chroniclard said:
The white raging safe space lovers becoming far far worse than the woke now.

Careful, one of the biggest ragers in the thread is black/Asian.

Dis86 · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:42

neil_g said:
as apposed to the constant frothing posts about minority groups? its embarrassing. what new members think when they sign up I dont know.

I know right, seeing people trying to defend and deflect from racially prejudicial policies. They must be appalled.

neil_g · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:43

Dis86 said:
I know right, seeing people trying to defend and deflect from racially prejudicial policies. They must be appalled.

come on now, lets not call this thread anything but what it actually is..

Fubsy · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:44

Pour some privilege on meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Who cares. Good on those kids. I bet there's some other kids that have white/Asian/whatever race you can think off supporting them financially through their education, no different to that other than coverage(ego massaging. It's just the media stirring things up as usual.

However, placing all judgement on someone based on the colour of their skin (or any other protected characteristic - negatively or positively) is ******** and these sorts of actions, as seen in the thread, will have a push back effect and won't make anything better in the long run.

Dis86 · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:47

neil_g said:
come on now, lets not call this thread anything but what it actually is..

What, an attempt to highlight a shockingly racist and discriminatory practice?

dirtychinchilla · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:47

[FnG]magnolia said:
I'm a bit late to the outrage party but great to see the standard frothers frothing away. I particularly liked the appeal to Martin Luther King by some of our more predictable members, without any hint of self-awareness or irony

e: a cast list appears!

19 posts Dis86

10 posts BallistixOnZ490

7 posts Cooler running

5 posts The Running Man

5 posts james.miller

3 posts silvagti

3 posts jsmoke

3 posts thenewoc

Funnily enough, that looks a lot like my ignore list. Thanks for summarising. I was also amused by the quoting of MLK. I think he'd be more upset to find out that racists were using him as a rallying point than worrying about Stormzy.

Dis86 · 30 Jul 2021 at 08:48

dirtychinchilla said:
Funnily enough, that looks a lot like my ignore list. Thanks for summarising. I was also amused by the quoting of MLK. I think he'd be more upset to find out that racists were using him as a rallying point than worrying about Stormzy.

Look guys, its captain echo chamber!