Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Attn: Race and Diversity interns

I was at my friend's dorm at Harvard today, and the subject of the law school student's infamous email came up for discussion. It turned into a rather impassioned debate on race.

Here's an interesting read in The Crimson, particularly the comments: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/4/30/email-law-school-students/

The comments range from academic to personal to pretentious and nonsensical, but they're overall more readable and informed than most open-for-all forums.

The dynamics of the discussion seem to involve: biological basis for race vs. its cultural basis, political correctness vs. academic hypotheses, environmental factors vs. genetic factors in adult intelligence, etc.