Liberal Students are asked to give GPA points to lazy students

[BradInPhx]

I find this hilarious "but we worked hard for it..."

[magicmatt]

as a liberal that despises welfare, will watch later.

[BradInPhx]

as a liberal that despises welfare, will watch later.

Repped

[typhoonfish]

as a liberal that despises welfare, will watch later.

A liberal from Massachusetts... surprise.

[Deapht]

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[chessgeeksam]

Didn't watch. The "share your GPA" concept is absolutely inane. It doesn't even come close to being an accurate or fair way of representing issues that actually face society. The concept of sharing gpa with lazy student isn't even remotely comparable to safety nets in place for society when people hit hard times.

Feel free to argue or disagree with liberal ideas, but at least address the actual issues instead of spreading this embarassing way of thinking about social issues. It just makes opposition to liberal ideologies look dumber than it should.

/rant

Edit: I'm actually a moderate who supports the iidea of welfare but not as the system stands currently. I just think this is an ignorant form of debate about the topic.

[magicmatt]

A liberal from Massachusetts... surprise.

also own guns too, you mad?

[BobisMighty]

lol stupid way to go about this.

[maynardjames]

Didn't watch. The "share your GPA" concept is absolutely inane. It doesn't even come close to being an accurate or fair way of representing issues that actually face society. The concept of sharing gpa with lazy student isn't even remotely comparable to safety nets in place for society when people hit hard times.

Feel free to argue or disagree with liberal ideas, but at least address the actual issues instead of spreading this embarassing way of thinking about social issues. It just makes opposition to liberal ideologies look dumber than it should.

/rant

Edit: I'm actually a moderate who supports the iidea of welfare but not as the system stands currently. I just think this is an ignorant form of debate about the topic.

repped....Took the words right out of my mouth

editn RC

[abbot92]

Repped

Lmao ridiculous. I love how their only response is.. "money is different"

****ing liberals

[JB05]

Didn't watch. The "share your GPA" concept is absolutely inane. It doesn't even come close to being an accurate or fair way of representing issues that actually face society. The concept of sharing gpa with lazy student isn't even remotely comparable to safety nets in place for society when people hit hard times.

Feel free to argue or disagree with liberal ideas, but at least address the actual issues instead of spreading this embarassing way of thinking about social issues. It just makes opposition to liberal ideologies look dumber than it should.

/rant

Maybe we could have a minimum standard of living that ensures nobody in society starves. Starvation is painful and harmful to society as a whole.

Maybe we could have a minimum GPA that ensures nobody in the university fails out. Academic failure is painful and harmful to the university as a whole.

Seems like a pretty parallel argument to me. In b4 I'm racist/sexist/uneducated

[pcaron8]

Capitalist Version:

Ok Class those with money can lobby/bride the teacher to make assignments and tests that only they know the answers too. Everyone else put your heads down and work your hardest.

[magicmatt]

there are certain people that do need help but its not the leeches who have 7 kids with no father just so they can get extra checks.

but after they have the kids what do you do? not give them the money? so the kids can starve and turn to crime to feed themselves? cant fukking win

[StalinX]

dude has a point. we should just shoot the lower income bracket and all of our problems will be solved

[SpikeNeedle]

Lmao ridiculous. I love how their only response is.. "money is different"

****ing liberals

It IS different though. People aren't born with low GPA and aren't born into high GPA, and sometimes no matter how hard you work if you don't get lucky you just can't make money from a low income bracket.

Everyone has a fair and equal chance with the GPA system because you all start off with 0, and you can't persuade your teachers to give you answers with your higher GPA. Your connections with teachers because of your higher GPA also doesn't affect your grade.

Likewise, there's no inherent difficulty in getting grades if you have a low GPA, you can go from 1.0 to 4.0 with no problem, and a 4.0 can go to a 1.0 no problem.

[BradInPhx]

Didn't watch. The "share your GPA" concept is absolutely inane. It doesn't even come close to being an accurate or fair way of representing issues that actually face society. The concept of sharing gpa with lazy student isn't even remotely comparable to safety nets in place for society when people hit hard times.

Feel free to argue or disagree with liberal ideas, but at least address the actual issues instead of spreading this embarassing way of thinking about social issues. It just makes opposition to liberal ideologies look dumber than it should.

/rant

Edit: I'm actually a moderate who supports the iidea of welfare but not as the system stands currently. I just think this is an ignorant form of debate about the topic.

This video is not really a debate its just more of an analogy showing how the system is flawed.

I believe the poor need some assistance but our current system sucks.

[magicmatt]

also what you should have a problem with is the government spending tens of millions on steroids in sports and the barry bonds trial while we have hundreds of thousands of people (probably millions), many children, starving/freezing to death and sleeping under fukking bridges

[Jester85]

It IS different though. People aren't born with low GPA and aren't born into high GPA, and sometimes no matter how hard you work if you don't get lucky you just can't make money from a low income bracket.

Everyone has a fair and equal chance with the GPA system because you all start off with 0, and you can't persuade your teachers to give you answers with your higher GPA. Your connections with teachers because of your higher GPA also doesn't affect your grade.

Likewise, there's no inherent difficulty in getting grades if you have a low GPA, you can go from 1.0 to 4.0 with no problem, and a 4.0 can go to a 1.0 no problem.

This implies that there aren't extenuating circumstances that can affect how well you do in school. A learning disability, being a single parent, having to work multiple jobs, having little to no support system are all examples of things that takes the "equality" out of the GPA system...

[MasterBench]

It IS different though. People aren't born with low GPA and aren't born into high GPA, and sometimes no matter how hard you work if you don't get lucky you just can't make money from a low income bracket.

Everyone has a fair and equal chance with the GPA system because you all start off with 0, and you can't persuade your teachers to give you answers with your higher GPA. Your connections with teachers because of your higher GPA also doesn't affect your grade.

Likewise, there's no inherent difficulty in getting grades if you have a low GPA, you can go from 1.0 to 4.0 with no problem, and a 4.0 can go to a 1.0 no problem.

Do you srsly think everyone has an equal chance of getting the same GPA? This is the farthest thing from the truth and almost every teacher will admit that grading is subjective. If your family donates money to the school, your GPA will probably be higher. If you volunteer your time, your GPA will be higher. If you shmooze, your GPA will be higher. And no not everyone can volunteer their time to a teacher because many have to work because theyre parents do not pay for their schools.

And no people cannot go from a 1.0 to 4.0 if they did then a 4.0 wouldnt mean anything. I lol at those people who say "I could have a 4.0 if I wanted"

[Bishamon]

Didn't watch. The "share your GPA" concept is absolutely inane. It doesn't even come close to being an accurate or fair way of representing issues that actually face society. The concept of sharing gpa with lazy student isn't even remotely comparable to safety nets in place for society when people hit hard times.

Feel free to argue or disagree with liberal ideas, but at least address the actual issues instead of spreading this embarassing way of thinking about social issues. It just makes opposition to liberal ideologies look dumber than it should.

/rant

Edit: I'm actually a moderate who supports the iidea of welfare but not as the system stands currently. I just think this is an ignorant form of debate about the topic.

this

the average miscer really is as dumb as a post

[MillerDecaXC]

lol stupid way to go about this.

this... completely different... comparing distributing GPA and distributing $$$ from the rich is completely different... a bro making $10,000,000 a year can afford to give 10% of taxes away... yes he prolly worked hard, but not 500 TIMES HARDER than people making $20,000 a year... derp!

and isnt it funny that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (the 2 richest people in the world) say that they think they should get taxed more than poor people??

if i was making 10 million a year, i would be 100% fine with distributing 10% of my wealth every year to less-fortunate people... and YES less-fortunate... 99% of the rich people had a HUGE advantage in life over the poor people.

[iForce Dave]

this is funny haha,
strong hypocrisy

[Bishamon]

Maybe we could have a minimum standard of living that ensures nobody in society starves. Starvation is painful and harmful to society as a whole.

Maybe we could have a minimum GPA that ensures nobody in the university fails out. Academic failure is painful and harmful to the university as a whole.

Seems like a pretty parallel argument to me. In b4 I'm racist/sexist/uneducated

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yeah, makes sense

[ZenBowman]

Do you srsly think everyone has an equal chance of getting the same GPA? This is the farthest thing from the truth and almost every teacher will admit that grading is subjective. If your family donates money to the school, your GPA will probably be higher. If you volunteer your time, your GPA will be higher. If you shmooze, your GPA will be higher. And no not everyone can volunteer their time to a teacher because many have to work because theyre parents do not pay for their schools.

And no people cannot go from a 1.0 to 4.0 if they did then a 4.0 wouldnt mean anything. I lol at those people who say "I could have a 4.0 if I wanted"

This.

[kegels]

I love anti-welfare stupidity. Veteran's benefits are one of the few pure examples of welfare, where you get a check in the mail without other work requirements or restrictions. How do they fit in to your GPA analogy, OP?

Stuff like this reinforces some dumbass myths about who gets public assistance and why, stereotypes that haven't been true since the 90s. There is no program where you get free money in the mail just for being poor, assuming that's what's meant by "lazy."

[calbaisey]

smh @ dumb asses thinking this is a good analogy.

[nognig]

It IS different though. People aren't born with low GPA and aren't born into high GPA, and sometimes no matter how hard you work if you don't get lucky you just can't make money from a low income bracket.

Everyone has a fair and equal chance with the GPA system because you all start off with 0, and you can't persuade your teachers to give you answers with your higher GPA. Your connections with teachers because of your higher GPA also doesn't affect your grade.

Likewise, there's no inherent difficulty in getting grades if you have a low GPA, you can go from 1.0 to 4.0 with no problem, and a 4.0 can go to a 1.0 no problem.

Some people are born into families with really good parents who either read to them at a young age or hire tutors or put them in really great private schools. Also, your parents pass on genetics that make you intelligent or not.

Some students are better at arguing with teachers over grades and can get them changed.

There are people out there that will never be able to get a 4.0, they just don't have the ability to.

NN

[riomo]

college is not real life. it is much easier to get a high gpa in school than it is to make a living in life. plus the range of a good gpa is very small. the range from 50,000$ to a 1,000,000,000 dollars is vastly large.

[bosstrollin]

great argument... going to troll over liberal *******s in class allllll day

[MikeD4386]

this... completely different... comparing distributing GPA and distributing $$$ from the rich is completely different... a bro making $10,000,000 a year can afford to give 10% of taxes away... yes he prolly worked hard, but not 500 TIMES HARDER than people making $20,000 a year... derp!

and isnt it funny that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (the 2 richest people in the world) say that they think they should get taxed more than poor people??

if i was making 10 million a year, i would be 100% fine with distributing 10% of my wealth every year to less-fortunate people... and YES less-fortunate... 99% of the rich people had a HUGE advantage in life over the poor people.

They probably had that advantage in life because they got a better GPA than their peers. Why not donate their GPA to their less fortunate classmates who have 3.0s so they wil have the same opportunities?

Warren Buffet and Bill Gates do not argue that they should be taxed higher specifically. they aregue that capital gains should be taxed equally as rdinary income.

lmao @ liberals. its different. why? it just is. ****ing brilliant.