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Zohran ticked "African American" on college apps
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:29 PM Author: Big senate tank https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070141) |
Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:34 PM Author: Aromatic ungodly range turdskin SAAR PLEASE GIB SAAR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070156) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:35 PM Author: Sticky bateful sanctuary old irish cottage - This tells you everything. He is another race-baiting grifter - All that lying got him Bowdoin. ljl. - Story is by some guy named Benjamin and Dana Rubinstein. Jews are coming after him. He will have to bend the knee. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:39 PM Author: free-loading plaza pisswyrm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070165) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:41 PM Author: naked casino he lived a pretty cushy life with a professor dad and film maker mom. went to private schools from the age of 7 onward. o wat a third world story! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070172) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:49 PM Author: impertinent obsidian travel guidebook cuck I wonder if jews will ever regret I porting all these brown people. I doubt it. They're not an insightful people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070189) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:17 PM Author: Thriller State (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070279) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:40 PM Author: free-loading plaza pisswyrm How fucking retarded is this guy that he marks African and best he can do is Bowdoin? What was his SAT? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070166) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:45 PM Author: Motley topaz legal warrant parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070181) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:50 PM Author: Mind-boggling philosopher-king cq (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070198) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:54 PM Author: Big senate tank bowdoin is a great school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070210) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:25 PM Author: confused spot Damn fine school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070293) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 8:59 AM Author: magical meetinghouse reading party How was Brunswick? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071476) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:54 PM Author: turquoise chapel striped hyena Dinged from Columbia despite his dad being a prof there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070211) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:59 PM Author: mustard foreskin Maybe that’s how Columbia knew he wasn’t really a brother and thus he didn’t get the “African” boost? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070228) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:04 PM Author: Motley topaz legal warrant parlour Devastating (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070242) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 9:47 PM Author: Arrogant mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070599) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:03 PM Author: glassy voyeur legend More like the admit committees prob knew cause he marked both Asian and Nigga and his name was obviously Muzzie and Indian so they must know of East African Indians who got kicked out. Dont think these Admit Committees are some racist simpletons they have entire spreadsheets of all the diff ethnicities and only true niggas benefit from AA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070241) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:06 PM Author: nofapping station 982323 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070249) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:16 PM Author: Swashbuckling bright mad cow disease They had him listed as "BLACK NON-HISPANIC"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gu9sGNWWoAAKiEP?format=png&name=small |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 9:47 PM Author: Arrogant mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070601) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:25 PM Author: Vigorous school cafeteria i saw a group of admissions people get into a debate over a candidate named "Lee." was she Chinese, Korean, or Vietnamese? only the Vietnamese were getting AA. there was a total shitlib Asian woman who said, "give me that resume" and she pored over it for a minute and said "Korean!" and everyone silently put that resume in the reject pile. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070297) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 9:32 PM Author: lascivious massive french chef Is the following person Chinese, Korean, or Vietnamese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 8:42 AM Author: Pungent alcoholic resort ape Korean! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:13 AM Author: lascivious massive french chef To be fair, white people can be Korean, much to nyuug’s eternal consternation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihn_Yo-han |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:05 AM Author: Talking locus main people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071485) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:01 AM Author: charismatic messiness deer antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071479) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:39 AM Author: Vibrant out-of-control tanning salon gaping (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071524) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:04 AM Author: Coiffed theater police squad Zohran Kwame Mamdani
African nigs have muzzle names too. And he had a bantu middle name |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:57 PM Author: Cerise useless bbw public bath cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070341) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:36 AM Author: Bipolar tattoo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071516) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:01 AM Author: stimulating overrated lettuce market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071652) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:56 PM Author: turquoise chapel striped hyena Eric Adams is a funny dude, he should go hard on this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070216) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:56 PM Author: Concupiscible Ebony Therapy Today white people will learn which continent Uganda is on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070219) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:00 PM Author: Sticky bateful sanctuary old irish cottage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070233) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:54 PM Author: Pale fear-inspiring church rigpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070335) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:46 PM Author: Aromatic ungodly range turdskin you know jews are smart because they care about where niggers live (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070427) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:58 PM Author: Pearl becky liquid oxygen Wtf he was born in Uganda? His black ass needs to go back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070222) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:58 PM Author: Heady university “(He was not accepted at Columbia.)”
Devastating parenthetical. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:00 PM Author: Motley topaz legal warrant parlour ROFL
Shouldn’t it be to, not at? |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:25 PM Author: impertinent obsidian travel guidebook cuck He was on campus when he read the rejection letter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070296) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:32 PM Author: Motley topaz legal warrant parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070311) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:36 PM Author: plum forum (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070405) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:49 PM Author: Multi-colored center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070435) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:57 PM Author: Heady university (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070466) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:25 AM Author: slate institution clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071332) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:41 AM Author: Appetizing grizzly area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071341) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 7:22 AM Author: Medicated rambunctious corner This actually may be true. Didn’t he grow up in Columbia university housing? His dad is a professor there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071370) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 7:28 AM Author: nofapping station TiTsurprisingly thoughtfulCr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071378) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:00 AM Author: magical meetinghouse reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071477) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:01 AM Author: charismatic messiness deer antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071480) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:03 AM Author: Talking locus main people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071483) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Sepia hominid azn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070317) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:00 PM Author: Concupiscible Ebony Therapy Also, the funny thing about this is how Jews will trace their own lineage to the single kike that fled to Argentina after the Holocaust in order to mark Latino on their own applications. Many such cases, no New York Times exposés. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070231) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:01 PM Author: Sticky bateful sanctuary old irish cottage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070234) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:02 PM Author: mustard foreskin Relax dude, this is hilarious. Sometimes things are just funny. I can see the In Living Color-style black comedy sketch in my head already. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070237) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:09 PM Author: Concupiscible Ebony Therapy My reply literally said it was funny. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070259) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:05 PM Author: Motley topaz legal warrant parlour My kids are Portuguese. They’re gonna check Latino. You MAF? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070244) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:09 PM Author: Concupiscible Ebony Therapy Much bigger fish to be mad about. You know this ends in ovens for you and your spawn, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070257) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 7:25 AM Author: Medicated rambunctious corner Portuguese are neither Latino nor Hispanic retard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071373) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:28 AM Author: lascivious massive french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071690) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 12:25 PM Author: Concupiscible Ebony Therapy High Ashkenazi IQ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071758) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 4:57 AM Author: Puce Twisted Temple Prole and how that single kike had killed thousands of christians and other kikes and fled to avoid facing justice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071292) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:06 PM Author: glassy voyeur legend TBF, he was born in Nigga Uganda and he marked both Asian and Nigga. This is what shitlibs cause, they have all their stupid boxes and then shit like this happens and then cons use it to whine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070247) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 7:26 PM Author: Vigorous school cafeteria [Reserved for link to first article saying that what he did was not just ok but the right thing] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070298) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:58 PM Author: free-loading plaza pisswyrm This fag also went to Bronx Science. lol wtf were his SAT scores (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070470) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:04 AM Author: Talking locus main people His dad was a professor at Columbia too! He might actually be retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071484) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 9:34 PM Author: floppy kitchen lol the Jews are really coming for this guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070572) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 9:42 PM Author: chocolate laser beams coffee pot I think he has a point. What do South Afrikaners who went to U.S. high school check?
Conservatives should be embracing those because it shows how ridiculous it is. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 11:15 PM Author: Arrogant mexican Eric Adams now tweeting about it: https://x.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1940959956574032259
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:16 AM Author: plum forum This may be the first time that a campaign has portrayed their non-white opponent as LESS ethnic lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071496) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 11:17 PM Author: naked casino btw, this is why there is almost zero chance Obama never once hinted he was African-born. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49070798) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 6:36 AM Author: Chest-beating gay wizard set the people who have a problem with this don't have a whole lot to say about any of trump's unearned advantages https://ibb.co/0y774BMk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071340) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 7:26 AM Author: Haunting Nursing Home Kitty based (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071375) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:03 AM Author: charismatic messiness deer antler funny to see xo gleefully running with shareblue jewslop when its against leftists
wtf, i love nyt now! |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:05 AM Author: magical meetinghouse reading party Blue on blue violence is always fun to watch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071486) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:14 AM Author: plum forum It's objectively funny, especially because his opponent is an autistic corrupt MAGA-curious black man who still calls other blacks "Negroes"
Adams is gonna have a great time with this |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:17 AM Author: electric boltzmann Adams needs to go on the troll offensive with Black Twitter type memes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071498) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:28 AM Author: Big senate tank Weak meme game imo
https://x.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1940959956574032259?t=yETqkInShM3rYQuL6DL4nQ&s=19 |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:32 AM Author: electric boltzmann Yeah that's garbage. He needs some very online niggas to step up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071511) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:26 AM Author: charismatic messiness deer antler MAGA-curious black man tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071503) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:27 AM Author: Big senate tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071505) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:12 AM Author: electric boltzmann He was born in Africa and is an American citizen. How is he not African-American? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071490) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:27 AM Author: wonderful selfie So where are Obama's applications? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071504) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:38 AM Author: Wild native How is this shocking? He was born in Africa and is an American citizen. He also marked multiple racial categories. He didn’t even get admitted to Columbia. The “forces” are fighting like hell to make sure he doesn’t get elected. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071520) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:46 AM Author: magical meetinghouse reading party This was before he was an American citizen
xoxo hth |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 9:52 AM Author: electric boltzmann African born-American permanent resident tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071535) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:35 AM Author: lascivious massive french chef Are you serious? It’s because he is a shitlib who supports the system of AA that favours blacks over whites and Asian, yet claimed the black boost for himself despite being racially South Asian. This makes him a dishonest hypocrite.
And also, as others ITT have noted, a moron, since he couldn’t get in despite getting boosts from both black AA and being the child of a professor there. |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:19 AM Author: Insecure Dopamine Office lol how fucking TTT and retarded is this Apu faggot that he couldn’t get Columbia UG with x999999999 AA boost plus family money/celeb connections and a Columbia professor parent (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071677) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:26 AM Author: charcoal giraffe the race gotcha isn’t even that interesting, the real story here is that he is legitimately retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071687) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:40 AM Author: glittery whorehouse also his middle name is 'Kwame' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071702) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 12:40 PM Author: chestnut frisky hall Wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071794) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:30 AM Author: irate potus indian lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071692) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:36 AM Author: lascivious massive french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071696) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:38 AM Author: snowy mildly autistic useless brakes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071699) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 11:38 AM Author: snowy mildly autistic useless brakes Anywhere to search this hack?
Sure there is a lot of interesting information in there |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 12:04 PM Author: Puce Twisted Temple Prole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071732) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 12:45 PM Author: Harsh provocative location patrolman Adams and/or Sliwa should just read this poast verbatim on camera, instant win for whoever had the balls to do that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071800) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 12:48 PM Author: Puce Twisted Temple Prole LJL just remembered "KAMALA," the turdnig dotter of two Stanford profs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071809) |
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Date: July 4th, 2025 12:54 PM Author: lascivious massive french chef who went to Howard and UC Hastings Law (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745865&forum_id=2#49071816) |
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Date: July 6th, 2025 1:33 PM Author: naked casino NYT feels the need to explain why they reported on this.
https://x.com/patrickhealynyt/status/1941262786006483418
Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt As the @nytimes assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, I’ve received reader feedback regarding our reporting on Zohran Mamdani’s 2009 application to Columbia University. To provide context on how the reporting came together, I wanted to share some information: 3:28 PM · Jul 4, 2025 · 3.1M Views
Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 The Times has been reporting comprehensively on Mr. Mamdani’s proposals for the city, his vision on the economy and affordability, his leadership record and his personal background, including his biography and South Asian heritage that he’s talked about during his campaign. Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 Times journalists for decades have done deep reporting on major party nominees for New York's mayor to provide insight, context and texture about their priorities, history and evolution. Our reporting helps readers better understand how candidates think and what they believe. Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 Our reporters obtained information about Mr. Mamdani’s Columbia college application and went to the Mamdani campaign with it. When we hear anything of news value, we try to confirm it through direct sources. Mr. Mamdani confirmed this information in an interview with The Times. Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 Mr. Mamdani shared his thinking about the limitations of identity boxes on forms like Columbia’s, and explained how he wrote in “Uganda,” the country of his birth – the kind of decision many people with overlapping identities have wrestled with when confronted with such boxes. Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 We believe Mr. Mamdani’s thinking and decision-making, laid out in his words, was newsworthy and in line with our mission to help readers better know and understand top candidates for major offices. Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 We sometimes receive information that has been hacked or from controversial sources. The Times does not solely rely on nor make a decision to publish information from such a source; we seek to confirm through direct sources, which we did with Mr. Mamdani. Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 Sometimes sources have their own motives or obtain information using means we wouldn't, like Trump's taxes, Wikileaks or Edward Snowden. It’s important to share what we can about sourcing, but we always independently assess newsworthiness and factual accuracy before publishing. Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 On sourcing, we work to give readers context, including in this case the initial source’s online alias, as a way to learn more about the person, who was effectively an intermediary. The ultimate source was Columbia admissions data and Mr. Mamdani, who confirmed our reporting. Patrick Healy @patrickhealynyt · Jul 4 We heard from readers who wanted more detail about this initial source. That’s fair feedback. We printed his online alias so readers could learn more about the person. The purpose of this story was to help illuminate the thinking and background of a major mayoral candidate. |