פרסומים אחרונים במדור "חדשות"

Opening a public debate about this topic is a very healthy thing to have happen, in my opinion. I see this issue as a private case of various racial and socio-economic profiling mechanisms operating in various institutions and settings (there is plenty of writing about this by Jack Glaser, if anyone's interested). What's particularly interesting in the military context - and I talk about this a lot in my own work - is how these hidden inequalities (finding out race and status biases will not surprise me in the very least) work with an ethos of egalitarian, socio-neutral military service, according to which supposedly everyone can serve and everyone has an equal chance to reach each unit. These two mechanisms feed each other. While the egalitarian ethos draws attention away from profiling and its less palatable considerations, the hidden aspect of profiling justifies and perpetuates the ethos.

I really, really wonder what will happen if and when these standards are exposed.

Thanks! Are you allowed to tell us what one learns at the psychotechnic evaluator course? I'm really curious.

See, but this is exactly the point. Even if it will be revealed that socio-ethnic considerations don't play a direct role in military classification, proving that indirect roles do will create a (justified!) outrage. How many Mofazes are there?

I repeat my strong recommendation to read Yagil Levy's book (I know some folks here read it and didn't like it). I found it absolutely enlightening, and in light of what he wrote, it wouldn't surprise me if military tests are geared - probably not as a conscious conspiracy - to maintain traditional, or new elites, in a position of more alternatives.

"I'm sorry, sir. But I don't know how to answer it. I never said you couldn't punish me."

"Now you're telling us what you did say. I'm asking you to tell us when you didn't say it."

Clevinger took a deep breath. "I always didn't say you couldn't punish me, sir."

Why you hatin'?