Hey! It's a cisgenderist! Can we burn xer?

... of purple prose.

The mere existence of servers on standby is not a problem, let alone a "massive" one.

What nobility ... what goodwill ... what a brave new progressive world.

... what, because the only legitimate alternative to state-subsidized internet access is "resignation from the social compact"? What about drawing a line a little closer to the "bare essentials", construed strictly?

"[...] is seen [...] is seen as so vital by some [...] it is hoped [...]"

Anonymous, unquantified strangers say so, so it must be right.

Not on political hot topics. It's for wars of attrition, negotiating the WP:FOO meta-discussion wars.

But that is a grossly exaggerated meaning of the word. Not everything mean or unpleasant is "harassment" - esp. if the target is not even aware. Whether any criticism or attack is persistent or continued or tormenting enough (some keywords from a dictionary definition) is subjective to a readily weaponized degree.

Can you describe some of the "harassment of individuals" that took place in that subreddit? For those of us not regular participants, who saw only a few recent example postings, they were embarrassing photos / comments about people. But by what definition of the word 'harassment' apply?

"The ideal is that students who were struggling would get help, regardless of any other factors."

So the implication here is that the only reason achievement would be different is because struggling students were denied help based on their demographics?

"very similar verbiage is applied all over the place"

To require "equal achievement"? Really? (And I was asking about the school system.)

"I doubt it's actually achievable"

Exactly. They're requiring the _results_ to have certain statistical properties. That means that if the provisional results were to have politically-incorrect correlations, they would have to be suppressed (e.g., by grading on different curves per identity-group demographic, or by offering different courses/evaluation). The "intersectionalism" of it all will make the post-facto compensation even trickier - good luck!) So long to a standard course, with standardized testing.

I'm curious whether this "equal achievement" verbiage has ever been applied to other fields of study under that system, and how (if!) they managed to satisfy it.

"signing up" may be a prerequisite, but definitely not the same thing as "achievement". ... unless they give marks for mere attendance

"(in-effect-)equal achievement" means "equal compulsion" only in some language that is not English.

(If it were simply about "equal access", most of the quoted paragraph - listing identity group after identity group - wouldn't have to be there.)

"Students' access to and achievement in computer science must not be predictable on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, language, religion, sexual orientation, cultural affiliation, or special needs."

How does anyone imagine that is achievable, except by not marking ... performance?

"one could amass crippling debt as a result, not of [...] reckless borrowing and spending, but of going to college"

That is a false dichotomy. For some examples of "going to college", it is exactly reckless borrowing and spending.

"There are obvious common sense reasons for why those sorts of laws are in place"

"Unobvious common nonsense" would be more accurate.