#low standards

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion." -- Thomas Sowell

#Thomas Sowell #bigotry of low expectations #low expectations #neoracism #antiracism as religion #antiracism #low standards #religion is a mental illness

[valiiummbarbiedoll]

except i have the lowest standards ever

#bambi #coquette #coquette dollete #megan fox #this is a girlblog #amy dunne #girlblogging #courtney love #dollcore #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #low standards #girly tumblr #hell is a teenage girl #gloomy coquette #creepy coquette #dollycore #dollette #doll parts #nymph3t #nymphett #nympette #nymphcore

[twinkdrama]

girls girls girls your bar is set too low for men. your standards are in hell. you deserve better lol

#cishets #straight women #straight men #cishet men #low standards #mine

[bspeedballed]

I fall in love with every guy who doesn't immediately call me a slur

#gay #men #love #low standards

[theprincessofpowerremake]

society and social media lowered my standards so bad, cuz i'll fr squeal when someone respects their partner's/love interest's choices and actually loves them full hearted without a doubt and show it to them just by treating them like a human being, but also prove to them that they're worth so much more than they were given, and-

#social media #low standards #but like #its so good tho #romance #queer media #queer rep #representation #romantic tropes #idk #are my standards really that low #yes #and im dating somebody #smh #/hj

[disassociativesaddiebaddie]

when they show me human decency 🥴

#it is what it is #k!nk blog #k!nk tag #actually mentally ill #actually bpd #submisive and breedable #human decency #low standards #standards are that low

[h0ndy]

The only picture of myself I've liked so far. 🧐🤡

#eyebags #my photos #I used myself as a drawing reference #low standards #lol #teeth because yeah #dumb pose bc I like it

[ded-inside-anonymous]

I don't think I'd survive in another country. Their food would be too good. Which in all respects sounds like a stupid problem, how would good food lead to my demise? Simple. Good food is scary. I'm a picky eater with low standards. I'll only eat food I'm familiar with if it looks "right," but it could be like, the most dog shit version of that food. People be like, "college food tastes bad." And I'm like "oh my gosh it's the soup I get every Thursday at dinner! It's so good!" I'd go to another county, see the seasonings that make the food *actually* taste good and be like, "nope, nope, nope. It looks wrong I can't eat it or I'll throw up." And the sad thing is, it's probably the best tasting thing I've ever been in the presence of before, but it just *looks* sketchy. I don't know why but I'm *pretty* sure that food wants to throw hands with me. I dunno what I did but I think it's angry.

#picky eater #low standards #picky eater with low standards #yes i understand in my *head* it tastes good #but have you seen the suspicious back dots in it? #thats just pepper? #but are you *sure*?? #also syrup is alive #thats sketchy as fuck #heat up syrup and just stare at it and itll start dancing #thats wild #fyp #fypツ #my fyp #random thoughts #random stuff #your fyp #thoughts #dumb thoughts #funny #accurate #food is scary #food #the horrors #if i dont knoe whats in it- i can eat it #dont give me ingredients #ahhh decomposed salad #err or deconstructed salad #idk im not rich #also why do rich people use so many dishes???

[k3t4min5]

make me not wanna die

#venting #love #bpd thoughts #i hate him #actually mentally ill #mentally fucked #die #i hate it here #make me yours #i wanna die #toxic love #toxic relationship #high standards #low standards #boys #i hate boys #bpd #Spotify

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: John McWhorter

Published: Dec 21, 2023

Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, should resign.

I don’t love thinking so and hoped we would not reach this tipping point in the controversy over whether she should be retained in her position. But a tipping point it is.

Harvard has a clear policy on plagiarism that threatens undergraduates with punishment up to the university’s equivalent of expulsion for just a single instance of it. That policy may not apply to the university’s president, but the recent, growing revelations about past instances of plagiarism by Dr. Gay make it untenable for her to remain in office.

As a matter of scholarly ethics, academic honor and, perhaps most of all, leadership that sets an example for students, Dr. Gay would be denigrating the values of “veritas” that she and Harvard aspire to uphold. Staying on would not only be a terrible sign of hollowed-out leadership, but also risks conveying the impression of a double standard at a progressive institution for a Black woman, which serves no one well, least of all Dr. Gay.

It has always been inconvenient that Harvard’s first Black president has only published 11 academic articles in her career and not one book (other than one with three co-editors). Some of her predecessors, like Lawrence Bacow, Drew Gilpin Faust and Lawrence Summers, have had vastly more voluminous academic records. The discrepancy gives the appearance that Dr. Gay was not chosen because of her academic or scholarly qualifications, which Harvard is thought to prize, but rather because of her race.

There is an argument that a university president may not need to have been an awesomely productive scholar, and that Dr. Gay perhaps brought other and more useful qualifications to the job. (She held the high-ranking post of dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard before the presidency, and so may have administrative gifts, but that job is not a steppingstone to the modern Harvard presidency.) But Harvard, traditionally, has exemplified the best of the best, and its presidents have been often regarded as among the top in their given fields — prize winners, leading scholars, the total package.

As such, the academic writings and publications of a Harvard president and other top university presidents matter, including the integrity of that work. It might seem counterintuitive that university presidents typically begin their careers writing dozens of academic papers and multiple academic books. One might see their current duties — as administrators, fund-raisers, troubleshooters, meeting-havers — as only diagonally connected to the publish-or-perish realm of being a college professor.

This is especially because the world of academic papers and books is a weird and often gestural thing. Beyond the work of the occasional star, this academic material is often read only by a few reviewers (if even them) and university library shelves groan under the weight of countless academic books engaged by essentially no one. As to one of my own academic books — my favorite one, in fact — I am aware of a single person who has actually read it. And that’s about normal in this business.

But the allegations of plagiarism leveled at Dr. Gay come on top of her thin dossier and present a different kind of challenge.

There are indeed degrees of plagiarism. The allegations against Dr. Gay do not entail promoting actual substantial ideas as her own, but rather lifting phrases for sections of dutiful literature review and explicating basic premises without using quotation marks, or changing the wording only slightly, and, at times, not even citing the relevant authors shortly before or after these sections. This qualifies less as stealing argumentation than as messy. Much has been made of the fact that even her acknowledgments section in her dissertation has phraseology transparently cribbed from those of others. Sloppy, again — but still, this is not about her actual ideas.

But there are two problems here. One is Harvard’s plagiarism policy for students, its veritas image and other standards of integrity and conduct. Second is the sheer amount of the plagiarism in her case, even if in itself it is something less than stealing ideas. If the issue were a couple of hastily quoted phrases in one article, it would be one thing. But investigations have shown that this problem runs through about half of Dr. Gay’s articles, as well as her dissertation. We must ask how a university president can expect to hold her head high, carry authority and inspire respect as a leader on a campus where students suffer grave consequences for doing even a fraction of what Dr. Gay has done.

That Dr. Gay is Black gives this an especially bad look. If she stays in her job, the optics will be that a middling publication record and chronically lackadaisical attention to crediting sources is somehow OK for a university president if she is Black. This implication will be based on a fact sad but impossible to ignore: that it is difficult to identify a white university president with a similar background. Are we to let pass a tacit idea that for Black scholars and administrators, the symbolism of our Blackness, our “diverseness,” is what matters most about us? I am unclear where the Black pride (or antiracism) is in this.

After the congressional hearing this month where Dr. Gay made comments about genocide and antisemitism that she later apologized for, and now in the aftermath of the plagiarism allegations, some of her supporters and others have argued that the university should not dismiss Dr. Gay, because doing so would be to give in to a “mob.” However, one person’s mob is another person’s gradually emerging consensus among reasonable people.

I, for one, wield no pitchfork on this. I did not call for Dr. Gay’s dismissal in the wake of her performance at the antisemitism hearings in Washington, and on social media I advised at first to ease up our judgment about the initial plagiarism accusations. But in the wake of reports of additional acts of plagiarism and Harvard’s saying that she will make further corrections to past writing, the weight of the charges has taken me from “wait and see” to “that’s it.”

If it is mobbish to call on Black figures of influence to be held to the standards that others are held to, then we have arrived at a rather mysterious version of antiracism, and just in time for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in less than a month. I would even wish Harvard well in searching for another Black woman to serve as president if that is an imperative. But at this point that Black woman cannot, with any grace, be Claudine Gay.

And if Harvard declines to dismiss her out of fear of being accused of racism — a reasonable although hardly watertight surmise — Dr. Gay should do the right thing on her own. For Harvard, her own dignity and our national commitment to assessing Black people (and all people) according to the content of their character, she should step down.

#John McWhorter #Claudine Gay #diversity hire #plagiarism #academic corruption #academic fraud #Harvard #Harvard University #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity #equity #inclusion #DEI bureaucracy #DIE bureaucracy #Claudine Gay scandal #bigotry of low expectations #low standards #religion is a mental illness

[bigboy-lovers-unite]

I know all y'all are prolly gonna get pissy at me BUT GHOST ISN'T EVEN THAT HOT??? Y'ALLS STANDARDS ARE JUST LOW ASF💀

#simon ghost riley #ugly #low standards #cod mw2 #cod #cod mw3 #cod spoilers #cod mwii #cod mwf2 #cod mw ghost #hes not ok

[daddy-issues-99]

What's y'alls worst "hear me out" character? Like 'I have no standards at all' kind of character.

#hear me out #i promise i’m normal #horror #transformers #fantasy #marvel #starwars #low standards #comment

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

#It’s just so different #even though it’s public it still feels secret and safe. i feel comfy sharing a lot more on here than I do in my actual day to day life lol #in my head I’m also just speaking to myself 90% of the time which helps #if a friend off tumblr saw my thoughts I’d feel so weird ab it #esp bc they might get the vagueposting about certain situations and tell mutual friends #no thank u. this is for me. I’m not about to start censoring my thoughts bc someone I know knows my tumblr #u guys literally saw me have LIVE BREAKDOWNS #meanwhile I’ll have the worst fucking day in history and tell no one about it. I’m already cripplingly private but way more so in real life #this is basically a low stress journaling outlet for me. it’s so important for me to maintain the separation #like this is actually my diary & has been so handy for letting out emotions / articulating thoughts / staying on track !! #& I’ve met so many kind people on here who actually get me. which is so hard to find irl bc I’m surrounded by pre-med gunners/overachievers #who are by standard not very good w emotion & can be competitive/judgmental. or at least it’s hard for me to be vulnerable in front of them #and I’m part of that crowd so I reserve my emotions only to a handful of very close friends #it’s nice to hop on here and express negative emotions!! or positive emotions!! just whatever I want and it’s low stress and people get me #I don’t have to worry about judgment or competitiveness etc etc #like everyone on here is so kind & nice & understanding. & just a breath of fresh air from the types I run w. it’s just nice to have this #so idk that’s why I think I’ll always be strict about keeping the worlds separate. it just works #p

[someindiebandname]

Anyone saying they liked/found season 1 jamie enjoyable are liars

#ted lasso show #he was purposely written to be the biggest douche and ur calling him bbg? #i love him now but #low standards

[hermitthrush]

Excerpt: Standardized Mediocrity in America

John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley (1960) | Part Three.

Hermit Thoughts:  In a dialogue with his dog, Steinbeck discusses the phenomena of a near ubiquitous lack of flavor pervading the eateries they’ve stopped at and what the implications are for a society seemingly content with ever lower quality of experience.  This extends to the collective emotional and intellectual spheres as well.

"Just for ducks, let’s try a little of what my boys would call this generality jazz. Under heads and subheads.  Let’s take food as we have found it.  It is more than possible that in the cities we have passed through, traffic-harried, there are good and distinguished restaurants with menus of delight.  But in the eating places along the roads the food has been clean, tasteless, colorless, and of a complete sameness.  It is almost as though the customers had no interest in what they ate as long as it had no character to embarrass them.  This is true of all but the breakfasts, which are uniformly wonderful if you stick to bacon and eggs and pan-friend potatoes.  At the roadsides, I never had a really good dinner or a really bad breakfast.  The bacon or sausage was good and packaged at the factory, the eggs fresh or kept fresh by refrigeration, and refrigeration was universal." I might even say roadside America is the paradise of breakfast except for one thing. Now and then I would see a sign that said "home-made sausage" or "home-smoked bacons and hams" or "new-laid eggs" and I would stop and lay in supplies.  Then, cooking my own breakfast and making my own coffee, I found that the difference was instantly apparent.  A freshly laid egg does not taste remotely like the pale, battery-produced refrigerated egg. The sausage would be sweet and sharp and pungent with spices, and my coffee a wine-dark happiness.  Can I then say that the America I saw has put cleanliness first, at the expense of taste? And - since all our perceptive nerve trunks including that of taste are not only perfectible but also capable of trauma - that the sense of taste tends to disappear and that strong, pungent, or exotic flavors arouse suspicion and dislike and so are eliminated?

"Let's go a little farther into other fields, Charley.  Let's take the books, magazines, and papers we have seen displayed where we have stopped.  The dominant publication has been the comic book.  There have been local papers and I've bought and read them.  There have been racks of paperbacks with some great and good titles, but overwhelmingly outnumbered by the volumes of sex, sadism, and homicide.  The big-city papers cast their shadows over lage areas around them, the New York Times as far as the Great Lakes, the Chicago Tribune all the way here to North Dakota.  Here, Charley, I give you a warning, should you be drawn to generalities.   If this people has so atrophied its taste buds as to find tasteless food not only acceptable but desirable, what of the emotional life of the nation?  Do they find their emotional fare to bland that it must be spiced with sex and sadism through the medium of the paperback?  And if this is so, why are there no condiments save ketchup and mustard to enhance their foods?

#travels with charley #low standards #quality of life #individuality #standardization #travelogue #food #john steinbeck

[athenaaphrodite2045]

Tell me why my standards are so low that after a this cute boy I met told me I had a nice voice, I had a dream of us falling in love?🥲

#low standards #cute boys