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...Ziad Ahmed was asked "What matters to you, and why?" on his Stanford University application
... for his answer, Ahmed...wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times.
... On Friday, Ahmed received his acceptance letter from Stanford.
I can't help but wonder, with everything else being equal on is his transcript (except maybe for a picture), would the result have been the same if his name was "John Smith" ?
...Ziad Ahmed was asked "What matters to you, and why?" on his Stanford University application
... for his answer, Ahmed...wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times.
... On Friday, Ahmed received his acceptance letter from Stanford.
I can't help but wonder, with everything else being equal on is his transcript (except maybe for a picture), would the result have been the same if his name was "John Smith" ?
It's actually genius.
Ahmed is a pretty big figure in the SJW movement. He's the founder of Redefy, a large-ish social media / blogging platform devoted to being a victim, and is a highly outspoken character who's appeared on national media a number of times.
Now, judging from his bio, it does appear that he is actually qualified to be admitted to Stanford. But that essay answer was essentially a guarantee that he'd get in. Imagine if Stanford had rejected him! He''s already got a rather tall platform from which to complain about how Stanford dismissed him BECAUSE he believes in BLM (or because he's a Muslim, or whatever.) The point is that they couldn't NOT admit him after he did that, for fear of reprisal.
Villanova Student Shaves Her Head to Confront ‘Hair Privilege’
By Jillian Kay Melchior | 2:06 pm, April 5, 2017
A Villanova student claims that shaving her head helped her confront her “hair privilege,” as well as “society’s oppressive gender norms.”
“I’m not a big fan of being oppressed, and I don’t like it,” said Yvonne Nguyen in a Facebook live video where she shaved her head on camera to Beyoncé songs. Since this article’s publication, she has taken down the video.
In an op-ed for the student newspaper, Nguyen said that the oppressive societal gender norms had made her feel like she was only a “true girl” if her hair was “long, straight and silky.”
“Shaving my head enabled me to be reflective of ways society forces me to conform to labels that I didn’t choose,” she wrote. “Shaving my head liberated me, as I allowed myself to be faithful to my values and genuine self.”
“At the same time, I’m also very privileged,” Nguyen added in her Facebook video, explaining that her bald head was a show of solidarity for people with cancer or alopecia. “I would like to remember the privilege I have in terms of being able to grow my hair out,” she wrote in the accompanying post.
“Dude, this is awesome that you’re doing this,” one of Nguyen’s friends commented as she shaved her head.
“I’m saving all this money so I can go to grad school and save the world,” Ngyuen said in the video when her haircut was complete.
Nguyen said she chose to shave her head on St. Patrick’s Day—also celebrated as St. Baldrick’s Day, where people shave their head in support of childhood cancer research. Since she posted her Facebook live, it has gained more than 1,400 views.
Reflecting on her decision nearly three weeks later, Nguyen said that going bald was part of a choice “to be a woman for others.”
“One must forgo some of their undeserved privileges to provide justice for others,” she concluded. “Are you wiling to shave?”
The MIT Press has reportedly published a book called “Communism for Kids” that apparently attempts to paint a bright picture of a world in which communism brings happiness.
On Amazon, the book’s description reads, “once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.”
The description goes on to promise readers that this simple book for kids will offer “relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics.”
“It all unfolds like a story,” the description continues. “With jealous princesses, fancy swords, displaced peasants, mean bosses, and tired workers – not to mention a Ouija board, a talking chair, and a big pot called ‘the state.'”As much as one would hope this book is a joke, it appears to be real and written by “Berlin-based social theorist and artist Bini Adamczak.”
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