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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS]War zone in Dallas, 11 cops shot during protest, 5 dead. suspects escaped

« on: July 08, 2016, 04:43:47 PM »

what context does this fall in with the argument exactly?

Im confused but i think i know what you may be saying

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Off Topic / Re: "Treated like blacks"

« on: July 07, 2016, 09:26:11 PM »

There are many easy scholarships targeted at underrepresented minorities. So many you just need to apply to to get accepted. At worst pay someone $100 to write you an essay that will score you a $2000 scholarship.

There are also scholarship programs that just give you thousands of dollars for having a certain GPA and graduating from a certain school system. Not everyone just scoops up several thousands of dollars of private scholarships to pay their full cost of attendance. In fact most people don't regardless of race.

On top of that it's a requirement to list what other scholarships you get when applying for another. Scholarship foundations aren't going to give you another private scholarship if you got like 5 others when there are similar people with nothing applying for the same thing.

So even if it were possible to get minority scholarships it's only be a drop in the pool of other private scholarship funds that go untapped because people just don't know about them. Alternatively merit scholarships are likely given on a first-come-first-serve basis. It's ideal to go to a college that will pay for a lot of your cost of attendance rather than going to a school hoping that you can come up with tens of thousands of dollars in private scholarships alone.

consider the figures in this paper
http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf

a small percentage of scholarships are race-specific, and require more than GPA/rank and take into account extracurriculars and community service (the things that actually get you into college/ get you scholarships over other people).

Like for example Achieve Atlanta is a scholarship that gives $5000 over 4 years of college to any graduate from an Atlanta Public School system school. The prerequisite for this is pretty easy (maybe like above a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale) and has no real restrictions based on financial need. I only had to go to some kind of event for it and now they've sent it to my school. The event had like 40 kids at it maximum (most black) which is ridiculous because the intention was to give it to so many grads. So if the majority of people wont get an easy and fully funded scholarship how could you expect one to find multiple private scholarships with limited funding? There's no reason to attribute my personal experience to how the scholarship practice works but it seemed so weird to me.

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Off Topic / Re: "Treated like blacks"

« on: July 07, 2016, 08:42:29 PM »

It's either about AA or some stuffty Socialist 'utopia'

That's kind of irrelevant considering AA is getting utilized less and less each year and isn't required by any means.

Also the fact that getting admission to a college has nothing to do with paying for said college lol.

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Off Topic / Re: "Treated like blacks"

« on: July 07, 2016, 08:22:01 PM »

oh and free college!

wait where

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Off Topic / Re: Iron man is now a black chick

« on: July 06, 2016, 09:57:35 PM »

the idea of new people taking up the mantle of old superheros is a thing that happens

especially in the comicverse of infinite universes

John Stewart was simply SJW pandering.

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Off Topic / Re: [news' news] black man shot by police outside of store, appeared to be armed

« on: July 06, 2016, 08:15:45 PM »

More black people are killed by other black people rather than cops

same for literally any other group of people

it isn't hard to surpass a few hundred murders. I hope you didn't think this was a constructive point, or rather is it just customary to bring up black on black crime in discussions like these

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Off Topic / Re: Iron man is now a black chick

« on: July 06, 2016, 08:02:59 PM »

Why do people still complain about these changes, they won't effect the movies and in the comics they are only going to be temporary like always.

I mean

by a show of hands how many people who are mad actually read marvel comics regularly, or more specifically were actually reading ANAD up until Iron Man was replaced, lol.

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Off Topic / Re: Iron man is now a black chick

« on: July 06, 2016, 07:46:31 PM »

It seems like Marvel and DC want to expand their audience to be more inclusive and this is probably their best option - I've yet to hear women or people of color complain that stuff like this is patronising, they seem mostly supportive of expanding their media representation one way or

I like PoC superheroes that aren't mary sues.

I think Superman is such a blank slate in terms of his personality and character (he just does the right thing in most series/arcs, there are some cool alternative explorations of his character though) that he could easily be replaced by a new, not white/male character in a series without losing much of what he embodies

Good example is Val Zodd from Earth 2

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Off Topic / Re: Iron man is now a black chick

« on: July 06, 2016, 07:37:17 PM »

And if forced diversity doesn't work they could always do a DC Rebirth and change all the parts that didn't sell back, lol.

Unless there was some other motive for DC Rebirth then I'm just talking out my ass.

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Off Topic / Re: Iron man is now a black chick

« on: July 06, 2016, 07:32:50 PM »

Except the whole point of ANAD was for characters to pass down their superhero mantles, be it intentional or not. Amadeus Cho is not going to act like Bruce Banner because he's an entirely different person, hence a different take on the hulk.

Reading up on this the alternate universe was only established in 2015. And reading up on what they changed it seems to only be characters and guess what? They all coincidentally change to either be gay, a different race, or be a woman. This "universe" was only made to appeal to SJWs.

it diversified the pool of comic characters to appeal to different people. make of it what you will

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Off Topic / Re: Iron man is now a black chick

« on: July 06, 2016, 07:24:18 PM »

my bad.

ANAD means All New All Different. It's the name of the post Secret Wars universe that was created.
I'm not sure how it parallels with the original marvel universe so i have to read up more on that.

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Off Topic / Re: Iron man is now a black chick

« on: July 06, 2016, 07:17:15 PM »

It's the ANAD universe tho.

Where they change the characters anyways. Iron Man was due for a change because he was the only person on the ANAD avengers that wasn't changed already.

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Off Topic / Re: Rihanna is Lit

« on: July 06, 2016, 05:00:27 PM »

I was mixing it up with rap / whatever music has voices altered to sound extremely high pitched or low pitched.

I mean some rap DOES do that though i don't know specifically but if I had to guess I'd say trap music is the most indicative of this? It happens in multiple genres i'd believe.

It's impossible to pinpoint whaat exactly sounds like stuff if there's no names or songs to go by. A genre doesn't help because when someone says rap/hip hop/rock it's cataloging several different sub-genres with their own artists that have a similar sound.

its not even that catchy.

i guess

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Off Topic / Re: Rihanna is Lit

« on: July 06, 2016, 04:18:49 PM »

i just lit a candle

whoa watch that language handicap

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Off Topic / Re: Rihanna is Lit

« on: July 06, 2016, 04:12:45 PM »

Literally anyone?
I might be mixing it up with rap idk.
'Sides, if I really think it's trash, would you honestly expect me to remember their names?

I would at least have expected a single example given the statement.

It's pretty good for pop music. I like Work a lot.

yeah it's catchy even though the lyrics are unintelligible

which is what pop music is good for. being catchy.