I cannot make this any more clear. You've decontextualized a complex issue in order to pay a game if "what if akshually" which serves the double insult of wasting time on the "akshually" and clouding the more significant issue of context.
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Replying to @The_WGD @CovfefeAnon
Well I at least understand what you're saying now. Anyway, I see absolutely no reason to consider that this Classics alumni from Princeton should've been gatekept out of that program. I think it's far more probable she's world-class in Latin
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If you want a politically palatable reason, think about the hordes of really smart and capable people advocating positive discrimination for example. Some people who are world-class programmers are "rabid SJWs" who would've never been gatekept out by meritocracy in engineering
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I think what
@CovfefeAnon is doing here is a good old cope "She's my enemy so she must be an incompetent fool" what if she's an overperforming elite bro what then It certainly seems likely and there are many examples in every field1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @kartuzija @CovfefeAnon
You either do not understand or are intentionally obfuscating here.
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Replying to @The_WGD @CovfefeAnon
Again you're gonna have to be more specific. This seems very simple here.
@CovfefeAnon is saying she should've been gatekept which is funny because she's advocating against gatekeeping. I asked him how he knows that she would've been gatekept. I presented a plausible alternative1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Maybe
@CovfefeAnon has some additional information. For example maybe she somehow got around the rules that were in place before (she's an alumni). Maybe she barely scraped by. Then one could indeed argue that it's ironic that she's arguing against gatekeeping.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
But with no additional information, I don't see any reason to discount the idea that maybe he's just projecting his political enmity towards her. It seems not only plausible but likely that a _princeton alumni_ was, in fact, a very competent student in classics
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Replying to @kartuzija @The_WGD
You're arguing a Princeton alumnus shouldn't have been gated from entry anywhere - as proven by her ability to graduate from Princeton. This is circular when the argument is about a gate *within Princeton*.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @The_WGD
It's my understanding that she got in while the gatekeeping was in effect. That's why I think her Latin was likely fine/average. Otherwise she would've been gatekept back then.
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Read more closely. There were two tracks - one for those who had studied Greek / Latin before starting, one for those who had not. The latter group is not taken seriously by faculty as scholars.
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