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[quote=Anonymous]This Atlantic article was written by Caitlin Flanagan, a conservative with an agenda.  Read it with a grain of salt.

Much of the article is ok.  Sounds like she got the untimed test rates wrong, but yes many parents at Harvard-Westlake are a bit aggressive.

But then Flanagan gets into more usual GOP talking points.  One of the goals of the GOP (articles like this fill the rightwing press, which most of DCUM probably doesn’t read) is to blame America’s problems on Hollywood and the upper middle class to deflect blame from the billionaire class that is destroying the country.

Flanagan certainly lashes Hollywood.

But the giveaway is near the end.  Flanagan says that what Kushner did (dad legally bribing Harvard directly) ISNT THAT BAD because Harvard gets to spend the money.  Come again?  I did a double-take.  Only a conservative would say the real problem is upper middle class parents, not legalized open bribery.

The Atlantic is an an awesome publication in general, but Flanagan is near the bottom.[/quote]

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