Posted on 03/13/2019 2:37:46 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an actress. – Everyone should watch this video. Trust me, just watch it. It’ll be the best 23 minutes you invest this week. I’m going to keep this pinned at the top of each piece I post for the next few days in order to maximize its – and her – exposure.
This college admissions bribery scandal is just fascinating to me. Here you have a bunch of mainly-white, mainly-liberal wealthy people using their status and money to buy their kids’ way into some of the Ivy League and other “top” universities in the country. So, now we know how Chelsea Clinton and David Hogg really got into Harvard, right? Right.
In some ways, other than the manner in which the money changed hands, this is literally nothing new. It’s really a throwback to the old days before affirmative action and various Supreme Court decisions kicked in, when many of the schools were filled with rich upper-class “legacy” students who got into the school only because their parents graduated from it and gave it a lot of money over the years. So from that perspective, how is this really any different?
The problem for the children of privilege nowadays is that money talks, but it doesn’t talk louder than actual college entrance requirements and racial/gender quotas do. Thus, the parents of these kids could still throw their money around, but could no longer do it out in the open.
Where Thurston Chatsworth Longfellow V could get into Harvard or Yale in the 1960s for no other reason than all the Thurston Chatsworth Longfellows who had come before him had somehow manage to obtain degrees from the school and contributed gobs of money to one of the many school-affilated foundations and funds, Thurston Chatsworth Longfellow VI now has to actually make some grades and otherwise get into the school via some sort of merit.
That is, unless mummy or daddy is willing and able to have records falsified and slide several hundred grand into into an offshore bank account for the benefit of some key professor, dean or coach. Thus, what used to be a perfectly legal and regularly practiced aspect of very real “white privilege” – as opposed to all the fake kinds the social justice warriors lament these days – has been forced underground.
Today, what used to be an accepted, if somewhat distasteful practice that college viewed as a way to raise money is now, thanks to statutes and court decision, operating in its own sort of black market, a black market in white privilege.
Fascinating.
That is all.
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Corrected it; the only reason we aren't seeing any rich black people accused is that they already have a legal, SJW-approved means of getting their unqualified kids into top schools.
Who paid soetoro’s way?
Very well said!
“The only reason we aren’t seeing any rich black people accused is that they already have a legal, SJW-approved means of getting their unqualified kids into top schools.”
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Don’t call it “white privilege”, it is in fact LIBERAL privilege.
If you want really unimpeachable accreditation, spend some time in one of the uniformed services, and use the Montgomery GI Bill to pay your tuition for you, while using the service time as assurance to others you are of good character and morally fit for application of additional studies in your chosen field.
But that’s so HARD! And maybe, it no longer plays well in today’s college campus life.
These writers keep missing the point: This isn’t about the parents’ giving money to the schools.
It’s about fraud - these parents paid people to cheat the SAT tests for their kids. They paid people to lie that their kids were athletes.
I don’t believe that this scam was only open to whites. Money is money regardless of its source.
If this is truly a white privileged society then this scam would not be necessary. Since they did commit these stupid acts is proof that there is no white privilege.
I don’t believe that this scam was only open to whites. Money is money regardless of its source.
If this is truly a white privileged society then this scam would not be necessary. Since they did commit these stupid acts is proof that there is no white privilege.
I would be willing to bet that the political party of this group will be almost entirely Democrats. $5.00
It used to be a huge donation could get you in.
It’s not white privilege; it’s affirmative action for the rich.
“So, now we know how Chelsea Clinton and David Hogg really got into Harvard, right? Right. “
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She didn’t go to Harvard.
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Set up fake tax deductions and make hundreds of thousands of unreported dollars and you’ll find out!
Fraudulent parents and kids applying to fraudulent elite schools investigated by a fraudulent FBI.
Great. Everyone is guilty.
Uh, High cheek bones? Kenyan foreign exchange student? Liberal hypocrisy?
You took the words out of my mouth. The only color here is the color of money.
All democrats except for Lori Laughlin and her husband. The ONLY ones who have been named from the start was this couple, and that’s because they donated to ‘pubbies. Really.
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