<p>are you serious?</p>
<p>i think the yanks embraced the concept of total warfare or something forgot the exact term…do anything to win the war</p>
<p>“how can you compare that to systematic rape, torture, and pillaging?”
i think those usually only last a couple of hrs at max but seriously dying of starvation or disease i’m so sorry for those people…death comes so slowly and painfully…
edit: worse form of death is alzheimer’s…i mean nothing even compares w/ that…just a side comment…</p>
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I don’t know about darkhope, but I’m serious. Millions of people would give anything to be given the same opportunities as Jian Li. He has much to be grateful for.</p>
<p>warblersrule86,
Darkhope considers torture to be better than starving to death - the “are you serious” was directed towards that. Furthermore, I fail to see how is Jian being particularly ungrateful in anyway.</p>
<p>Darkhope, I guess we don’t have the same perspective on things. In my opinion, there’s a greater chance for survival if you’re starving. It’s not like your captors are going to start giving you food and water if they decide (by some miracle) to leave you alone. In addition, you have control over when you want to end things when you’re starving (if you decide to be a quitter), your torturers could go on forever.</p>
<p>sorry, when i said starving i meant the south when the yankees burned everything and there was nothing to eat =(
torture when i thought of it was basically general tortue in the field for ww2 which is not possible to last too long</p>
<p>Am I the only one here who thought that the article was making fun of “racist” policies and highlighting the ridiculousness of what admissions have become? I thought the writer’s concept was VERY funny and I think he did a very clever job crafting the articele. Maybe you had to have some black humor to not get riled up by it (you guys are really too up tight about this…), but I thought it was good. He made me laugh but under that surface he brought up an important, current, dark (if you’d let me call it that), and interesting issue. Maybe I’m crazy and have lost all my reading comprehension skills…</p>
<p>To future people who believe that they will appear sensative and intelligent by bashing me for saying what I have, I make the distinction now, before you post, that I am not saying that racism is generally a not-so-bad thing. I argue instead that there was no racism in the article. The intent was not to make fun of asians, but to make fun of the current state of things, of society, of policy, and of racism itself!</p>
<p>At these “little things?” Jesus darkhope… Asians are pushed around so much in this society; attacks against them nearly always gets slipped under the rug. This isn’t a “little thing,” it’s a horribly racist article and you dare call them over-sensitive for countering racism?</p>
<p>Martin Luther King we need you back!</p>
<p>O.o maybe b/c i’m comparing black racism w/ asian racism which basically dims any thoughts of asian racism present…or probably b/c i live in california and i never experienced racism b4…so that may be why also O.o</p>
<p>“edit: returning to china…communism…seriously i just can;t picture anyone going to china…”</p>
<p>Rofl… dark hope you obviously are VERY ignorant of China. Communism was dead in China a LONG time ago… It’s a capitalist country for crying out loud; do you stay up to date with current, or in this case: late events? And secondly, have you ever even been to Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen or countless other Chinese cities? Just take a look at pictures of those magnificent cities - they are nothing like what most ignorant westerners believe.</p>
<p>Lastly, I think we should be honoring Jian for his fight; his struggle. Like saro said, he has nothing to gain from this, and the fact that he, unlike many, is actually fighting this discriminatory policy of Princeton for nothing else than to have the world know about it is truly bold and honorable.</p>
<p>r1400sch - You really don’t have any reading comprehension skill.</p>
<p>communism isn;t defined by the productivity of the nation but rather by its government…look at government
edit: when i meant communism i never meant china was rural or etc…what i meant was its limits on individual rights and liberties
edit: yes i like to burn the american flag w/o getting shot…</p>
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Not exactly. The article was intended to make fun of racist stereotypes (while poking fun at Jian Li).</p>
<p>Jian Li is neither a racist nor a stereotype. He actually deserves a lot of praises. He only speaks for his race and he does not attack other races. Either you don’t understand English at all or you are the worst racist!</p>
<p>“understand English at all or you are the worst racist”…i hope you are not asian or you are contributing to the stereotype of being arogant lol…i apologize coolweather for your brilliance plz excuse my 630 writing score =(</p>
<p>I am asian and my TOEFL score was above 600 and my caucasian teacher with a master degree in English composition had a score of 637.</p>
<p>So what happens if a black guy sues because he is rejected by a college? I doubt people would criticize him then. Jian Li is suing Princeton because he wants to show that what universities are doing to Asians is wrong. I agree with him 100%. </p>
<p>From the names, I noticed that most of the editors of the newspaper are Asian. I can’t believe they would smear their own people like this.</p>
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LOL! :p</p>
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<em>beats head against wall</em></p>
<p>*Many criticisms of the column, however, do not recognize its purpose. Using hyperbole and an unbelievable string of stereotypes, we hoped to lampoon racism by showing it at its most outrageous. We embraced racist language in order to strangle it. At its worst, the column was a bad joke; at its best, it provoked serious thought about issues of race, fairness and diversity.</p>
<pre><code>The column in question was penned by a diverse group of students— including several Asians on our senior editorial staff — who had no malicious intent. Given our purpose, we are deeply troubled by and reject the allegation of racism.*
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<p>what do you guys think if i brought this up in my upcoming Princeton interview?
it’s got the potential of a strong, positive impact, yeh?</p>
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<p>Well, either that plan was a horrible disaster or this was some pathetic excuse they used to defend themselves after they realized they made the biggest mistake of their lives. I’ll go with the second.</p>