Hypocrisy and double standards
The Israeli government, at the web site for the Knesset
[http://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/six_days_eng.htm],
has declared:
On the other hand, the Washington Post reported on 2009-01-15:
Also, on on 2009-01-14:
By Ofri Ilani
Haaretz, 2009-02-17
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
will be one of the three laureates of the Dan David Prize for 2009,
awarded annually by Tel Aviv University.
Each of the laureates will receive a $1 million prize,
10 percent of which is contributed to 20 doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships.
Blair was selected to receive the prize in leadership
for what the judges described as
“his exceptional leadership and steadfast determination
in helping to engineer agreements and forge lasting solutions
to areas in conflict.”
[Compare the treatment of Charles Freeman.]
Panel to study whether men are favored in area schools' admissions
By Daniel de Vise
Washington Post, 2009-12-14
[1]
Civil rights investigators will soon begin reviewing admissions data
from a sampling of colleges in the Washington region
to determine whether, after decades of progress toward sexual equity,
female students have become so plentiful in higher education
that institutions have entered a new era of discrimination against them.
[2]
Women apply in greater numbers than men to most colleges in the D.C. area. They make up at least three-fifths of the applicant pool at a number of schools, including the College of William and Mary in Virginia, Goucher and St. Mary’s colleges in Maryland and American University in the District.
...
[Let’s see—when men outnumber women in college,
equity was defined to be proportional representation—
remember, women were an “underrepresented” minority.
But when women outnumber men, suddenly the standard changes.
Now achieving proportional representation is discrimination against women.
The basic principle of this line of thought seems to be:
“Heads, women win; tails, men lose.”]
By Petula Dvorak
Washington Post Column, 2009-12-15
[1]
So, ladies, it appears that big boulder we’ve pushed uphill is rolling back down after all.
[2]
After decades of grinding it out in classrooms, working to get into college and expand our universe of career choices beyond teacher, nurse, secretary or well-educated wife, we’ve apparently done too well.
[3]
For the past few years, college admissions offices have been seeing far fewer Y chromosomes, and they’ve been flummoxed about how to the treat the new male minority.
[4]
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has launched an investigation to determine whether universities have met this quandary by discriminating against qualified young women and lowering admissions standards for less-qualified male applicants.
[5]
All of this all sounds outrageous -- skewing admissions practices to create some kind of artificial, boy-girl-boy-girl hoedown formation on campuses and the idea that women are seen as a majority that needs its leash yanked before we take over.
[6]
I mean, if you're nervous, it certainly can seem that way looking at the numbers:
[7]
On U.S. college campuses, women are 57 percent of the student body. (Uh-huh. That was the case in my classrooms, too, when I was in school 20 years ago. Then on exam day, the rest of the boys finally showed up, and the class was about even.)
[8]
We receive 60 percent of the bachelor's degrees handed out every year.
...
[http://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/six_days_eng.htm],
has declared:
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser
blockaded the Straits of Tiran on May 21st and 22nd [1967]
to all shipping from and to Eilat;
the area was open to Israeli ships under UN supervision since 1957,
and Israel repeatedly stated that
such a blockade will be considered as casus belli
(justification for acts of war).
On the other hand, the Washington Post reported on 2009-01-15:
In the past eight years,
Hamas has fired thousands of rockets into Israel.
The pace picked up when Hamas,
which won Palestinian legislative elections in 2006,
ousted the rival Fatah party from Gaza in June 2007.
Since then,
Israel has imposed a crushing blockade on the strip
in a bid to pressure Hamas to hold its fire.
Also, on on 2009-01-14:
[Israeli m]ilitary officials ...
have blamed Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups
for the blockade,
saying it was necessary
to force them to stop firing rockets into southern Israel.
Israel imposed the blockade
when Hamas took exclusive control of Gaza in June 2007
after routing forces loyal to Fatah,
a rival Palestinian party that favors peace negotiations with Israel.
Hamas,
considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel,
rejects Israel’s right to exist.
2009-02-17-Haaretz-Blair-receives-one-million
Tony Blair receives Israeli prize worth $1 millionBy Ofri Ilani
Haaretz, 2009-02-17
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
will be one of the three laureates of the Dan David Prize for 2009,
awarded annually by Tel Aviv University.
Each of the laureates will receive a $1 million prize,
10 percent of which is contributed to 20 doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships.
Blair was selected to receive the prize in leadership
for what the judges described as
“his exceptional leadership and steadfast determination
in helping to engineer agreements and forge lasting solutions
to areas in conflict.”
[Compare the treatment of Charles Freeman.]
2009-12-14-WP-de-Vise-gender-equity
Sex bias probe in colleges' selectionsPanel to study whether men are favored in area schools' admissions
By Daniel de Vise
Washington Post, 2009-12-14
[1]
Civil rights investigators will soon begin reviewing admissions data
from a sampling of colleges in the Washington region
to determine whether, after decades of progress toward sexual equity,
female students have become so plentiful in higher education
that institutions have entered a new era of discrimination against them.
[2]
Women apply in greater numbers than men to most colleges in the D.C. area. They make up at least three-fifths of the applicant pool at a number of schools, including the College of William and Mary in Virginia, Goucher and St. Mary’s colleges in Maryland and American University in the District.
...
[Let’s see—when men outnumber women in college,
equity was defined to be proportional representation—
remember, women were an “underrepresented” minority.
But when women outnumber men, suddenly the standard changes.
Now achieving proportional representation is discrimination against women.
The basic principle of this line of thought seems to be:
“Heads, women win; tails, men lose.”]
2009-12-15-WP-Dvorak-gender-equity
In the push for gender equity, turnabout is not fair playBy Petula Dvorak
Washington Post Column, 2009-12-15
[1]
So, ladies, it appears that big boulder we’ve pushed uphill is rolling back down after all.
[2]
After decades of grinding it out in classrooms, working to get into college and expand our universe of career choices beyond teacher, nurse, secretary or well-educated wife, we’ve apparently done too well.
[3]
For the past few years, college admissions offices have been seeing far fewer Y chromosomes, and they’ve been flummoxed about how to the treat the new male minority.
[4]
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has launched an investigation to determine whether universities have met this quandary by discriminating against qualified young women and lowering admissions standards for less-qualified male applicants.
[5]
All of this all sounds outrageous -- skewing admissions practices to create some kind of artificial, boy-girl-boy-girl hoedown formation on campuses and the idea that women are seen as a majority that needs its leash yanked before we take over.
[6]
I mean, if you're nervous, it certainly can seem that way looking at the numbers:
[7]
On U.S. college campuses, women are 57 percent of the student body. (Uh-huh. That was the case in my classrooms, too, when I was in school 20 years ago. Then on exam day, the rest of the boys finally showed up, and the class was about even.)
[8]
We receive 60 percent of the bachelor's degrees handed out every year.
...
Labels: double standards, hypocrisy
posted by KHarbaugh at 12:00
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