# Damuri Ajashi, you are a moronic troglodyte of a crackpot

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**Created:** [February 17, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damuri-ajashi-you-are-a-moronic-troglodyte-of-a-crackpot/613099 "2012-02-17T03:28:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damuri-ajashi-you-are-a-moronic-troglodyte-of-a-crackpot/613099/36 "2012-02-17T17:09:04Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> For whatever it’s worth, he said Rice _offered_ (in a pre-acceptance letter) to fly him out on their dime. You can offer something to impress people without actually doing it and still get your message across. I’ve never heard of that kind of thing, but I was also never an Asian student being pursued by colleges in the late '80s.

Screw that noise.

He later backtracked on that claim.

> [@Harvard and Princeton Targeted in U.S. Asian-American Discrimination Probe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harvard-and-princeton-targeted-in-u-s-asian-american-discrimination-probe/611636/116):
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> Now that I think about it the letter probably didn’t include the offer of a free plane ride but when I called them, they offered to fly me out (a couple of colleges offered to fly me to their campus but I didn’t really want to visit Texas) and when I asked more about it they said that it was my SATs.

So, now it’s a matter of accepting this claim based on what has already been shown to be a faulty memory.

So, now it’s “trust me, this is what they said to me on the phone, even though I earlier claimed it was in a letter and other people got the same letter”. Well, that’s a load of Texas-sized BS.

Though, now I’ll have to backtrack on one of my own. He did actually mention he was a National Merit Scholar in one of the posts (they’re so damned long, it’s hard to remember each one).

> [@brazil84](#):
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> So too with Asians (I prefer to use the more traditional word “Oriental”).

I don’t. I’m also Asian, so I get a say.

I’m sure there’s lots of redneck trash who prefer to use the more traditional “nigger” but they don’t get a say, either.

Also, it’s just wrong. People from the subcontinent were not typically called “oriental”, but they are Asian and are included as “Asian” in college demographics.

Enjoy your racism, you racist. At least you’re open about it.

> [@brazil84](#):
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> Yes, I’m just speculating but I’m pretty confident that the bar is higher for people from traditionally high-achieving groups.

Do you even read your asinine posts before submitting them? This just makes no fucking sense.

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