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The University of Oregon has two types of applicants: victims and oppressors — and the latter should identify themselves and their repentance immediately.
The University of Oregon has two types of applicants: victims and oppressors — and the latter should identify themselves and their repentance immediately.
"The University of Oregon application requires that students respond to one of two essay questions. The first posits that the student is either a victim or an oppressor:
"Describe an experience with discrimination, whether it was fighting against discrimination or recognizing your contribution to discriminating against a person or group. What did you learn from the experience? In what ways will you bring those lessons to the University of Oregon? (Emphasis mine.)
"Please note that the second option in the above essay prompt — “recognizing your contribution to discriminating against a person or group” — implicitly includes a Maoist type of confession and re-education. I don’t know about you, but I find that prompt extremely disturbing insofar as it reveals that the University’s admission committee has lumped all of its applicants into two categories: oppressor and oppressed." . . .
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