Talk:Merit Scholarships
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by MadShell (talk | contribs) at 16:29, December 14, 2009. It may differ significantly from current revision.
I think it's important to mention the crazy scholarships that liberals give out! Like the left-handed ones or the David Letterman/Ayn Rand ones!
Or would it necessitate a "Liberal scholarships" and "Need based scholarships" page cross-referenced with this page?
-MadShell 11:06, 14 December 2009 (EST)
- actually there are left handed conservatives and Ayn Rand is very anti-liberal (and this is not a scholarship). I rephrased the article to reflect the actual debate that is going on. Left-handed and family-name scholarships exist but are not merit based. The Letterman award required high quality work in "written work, research, audio, video, graphics and film." RJJensen 11:12, 14 December 2009 (EST)
- Granted, but the idea of a "left handedness" scholarship is fairly liberal, based off of a genetic predisposition rather than actual work. For a more serious example, there are the scholarships from LGBT groups (who claim it's all genetic) and other racist selectionist associations that are essentially "affirmative action."
- And my original reference to Ayn Rand (not here, but the page) was that she was atheistic. And wouldn't "high quality" work determined by a liberals be "very liberal?!" -MadShell 11:29, 14 December 2009 (EST)