Yeah, we definitely see videos here every day of wealthy whites running around janking people.
Still assuming it is legit, what does that say about the quality of education folks are receiving in Austin? That "quiz" sounds like it should be given to a middle-school student.Get Off My Lawn said:
Assuming legit: the totality of this absurdity is incredible. Childishly easy "parrot back to me" quiz, academic word salad, and evidence of a toxic broken world view… it's incredible.
For most "real" anthropologist the idea of biological "race" does not exist (or only in a cultural sense).Ellis Wyatt said:I took Anthropology at UT. Never once discussed race or any -ist, -ism, or -phobe.TXaggiesTX said:
I had similarly worded questions in the anthropology class I had to take to get a social sciences credit for my business degree at A&M
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Biologically speaking, race does not exist. And this bears serious implications for other definitions of race. For example, societally speaking, the idea of race certainly does exist. In America, people of color are made aware of their "race" all too often.
Well this was 2018 when I took this class.Ellis Wyatt said:I took Anthropology at UT. Never once discussed race or any -ist, -ism, or -phobe.TXaggiesTX said:
I had similarly worded questions in the anthropology class I had to take to get a social sciences credit for my business degree at A&M
If it's the orange school in Austin you're getting hung up on, you're missing the point. This is at every public university and most private ones, including Texas A&M.Quote:
Still assuming it is legit, what does that say about the quality of education folks are receiving in Austin? That "quiz" sounds like it should be given to a middle-school student.
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For example, societally speaking, the idea of race certainly does exist. In America, people of color are made aware of their "race" all too often. The legacy of slavery and Jim Crow manifests itself in the racially-charged inequalities of our criminal justice system, our political system, and our society as a whole. Fear of black and brown people has been re-popularized; mass-killing in the name of "racial pride" is more common than it should be.