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INGERSOLL: STEM Professors In California Tired Of Teaching Stupid Kids For ‘Equity’
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Yesterday we covered a new level of stupid, ie, Hasan Piker publicly disclosing a potentially criminal financial roadmap for foreign influence money.
I wanted to try to fold this next bit in, but it seemed better on its own.
There was another disclosure around the same time …
Sometime around 2020’s “summer of love,” when violent left-wing activists were destroying, burning and looting minority communities over the death of George Floyd, the UC school system thought it would be a good idea to ditch the SAT/ACT admissions requirement.
In fact, around 700 additional universities joined the UC university system in going “test optional,” nearly doubling the total number of test-optional higher learning institutions in the US from 1,000 to 1,700.
There was good reason for this, they said, because test-taking facilities were closing under pandemic conditions and many students would not even be able to take the exams.
At the time, various black and “latinx” activist orgs hailed the decision as a victory for........