Affirmative Action = Self-Loathing

Recently, a professor of mathematics at the University of Hawaii made a blog post on the American Mathematics Society website that called for all white academics to abdicate their positions so women of color could inhabit said positions in their stead, regardless of their qualifications - a position she supports with evidence of how difficult her life in academe has been. Well, as it turns out she is one of the most privileged people I've ever seen, having, in my opinion, been essentially gifted a doctoral degree from Princeton. This is an extensive analysis of one of the most egregious cases of minority worship I have ever seen in the university and in this video I thoroughly indicate why this level of affirmative action leads to self-loathing from the recipients for whom it it supposedly benefits.

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Jones, E. E. & Harris, V. A. (1967). The attribution of attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 3 (1), 1–24.

Kruger, J. & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77 (6), 1121–34.

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