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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. I thought the play-in tournament was the the compromise on this want.
  2. And she was denied tenure after department professors, UNC's president, their provost, and a litany of people endorsed her. The trustee/board of regents stage of the process is typically perfunctory at that point.
  3. Not only are they not against cancel culture, but they're making it a matter of public policy to cancel any effort towards giving a full telling of the black experience in America. From school boards banning the 1619 project or banning efforts at teaching on subjects related to black people. It's clear that overt anti-blackness is once again in vogue with the republican party.
  4. Also let's not forget fact that black americans were citizens deserving of the benefits the United States government gave to citizens at the time. They are not and were never immigrants to this country. This obvious truth tends to get overlooked in discussions like this when the status of black americans gets compared to immigrants. James Baldwin hits on this mentality when discussing how black people at the time received Bobby Kennedy's statement "that it's conceivable that in 40 years we might have a negro president"
  5. And Luka only had 1 point in the entire 4th quarter. If everyone was healthy I felt we matched up pretty well with the Clippers going into the series. Kawhi is the only thing that scares me about them.
  6. Because housing discrimination isn't the sum total of the damage done to black people. Being segregated away from the rest of america into densely impoverished communities for generations can have a corrosive cultural and mental toll on people. Being otherized, criminalized, terrorized, and bombed into subjugation also has an affect on people. There isn't a large city in this nation where black people weren't literally bombed when they attempted to partake in the American experience. Part of the assimilation process for immigrants into America is incorporating anti-black views. It's American as apple pie. Are you fucking seriously trying to compare the black american experience to immigrants ?
  7. Most number 2s have some sort of flaw and it's usually mental. Take a look at Paul George for instance. Plus KP is a big. He needs others to get him involved. .
  8. I disagree. As the leader of the team Doncic has to recognize that KP is a bit of a headcase so he has to go out of his way earlier in the game to get him easier looks. KP is a total waste if all he's doing is launching deep ass 3s to start of the game. Rule number one of a PG early in the game is to get your guys involved and give them confidence. Doncic is young and despite his great playmaking ability he isn't a true PG in terms of his temperament and awareness of the psychology of his teammates. KP is the guy who can lift the potential of this team. It's an absolute must to get him playing well if we have any chance at a surprise run this year.
  9. I'll never understand why the Budenholzer refuses to use Giannis as a screener in the pick n' roll. Looks like Middleton bailed his ass out.
  10. Hell yeah!! The Mavs are getting in that ass.
  11. He was too worried about doubling off on the 3. They were trying to run some type hand off action and Giannis was overly anticipating it.
  12. Doncic already eatin like a muthafucka.
  13. The Bucks thwarted their 3pt plan and Butler still made something out of it/
  14. They better be all over Robinson, Ariza, and Dragic. A 3 is guaranteed to get fired up.
  15. Milwaukee gets into these lulls when the allow Giannis to begin the attack too much. They're much better when he's screening to begin the attack.
  16. I'm guessing the staff and athletic administration knew about it before we knew about it.
  17. According to the interwebs AJ1, Royce, Matt, Kamaka, Jericho, and Jase all graduated today. Not sure of the last time we had this many bball players graduate on time (or ahead of schedule in Kamaka's case).
  18. And the dichotomy of these two environments coexisting in the same world creates an obvious power imbalance of which we judged, made laws, and schooled and treated people differently because of this power imbalance. And even when the laws aren't explicitly racist everything created out of this world carries that imbalance along with it. That's why even in the police discussion when people attempt to debate whether individual policemen like Chauvin are racist its pure folly and misses the point entirely. They live a world where they're routinely dealing with the fallout out of our past where they absorb our value system telling them the impoverished are less than human. We reinforce this value system in everything we do. Shit look at California. Many of the current homeless are people who within the last few years lost their homes due to wild fires. As they struggle to find places to recover we punish that effort with reckless abandon.
  19. A big part of what people miss in these discussions is how much the post WWII housing production created the structure of the world we currently live in. It wasn't just that people were able to get houses, the profit of which were passed down to their loved ones. It's the communities that were built out of it. The destinations of commerce that it allowed people to take advantage of. Even if I didn't have a house I could now go work in some service of this new entity created. I could now create products and services to take and advantage of these entities spread throughout the nation. I could create schools that served this entity and built upon itself. And the absence of these opportunities created a literal vacuum elsewhere where these entities of commerce and community building weren't allowed to exist.
  20. That's simply not true. At least not to the same degree. The GI Bill and post WWII housing policies did a good job of rectifying things to a large degree for ethnic whites. And white looking hispanics have been able to blend in as well over the generations. There's a reason this problem is much more entrenched in some communities than others. Because they were much more exhaustive, punitive, and all consuming for some groups than others.
  21. Man the instagram story on his profile is heartwarming. He's walking with his Mom and Dad and his mom is beaming wiht pride while his Dad is absolutely balling. He mentioned he's the first in his family to graduate from college. I really wish he'd stay. He really is an impressive young man (as are a bunch players on this team).
  22. "I'm sorry I cut off your legs, but from here on out we're gonna make this race as fair as possible." In a situation like this the fix isn't going to be viewed as fair by society at large and that's the crux of the problem. Additionally, something as simple as the change from an industrial economy to an information based economy creates large hurdles in accomplishing this task.
  23. In my initial response to you the link of the study I posted explained how the legacy of our racism is already a built-in component of the machine learning you're referencing.
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