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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The degree of association with the WASP establishment.[/quote]

So this has not been a thing for more than 50 years.[/quote]

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And yet there’s the Ivy League: an athletic conference deeply rooted in the WASP power and money of the past. Collectively, these eight schools are still one of the most coveted universities in the nation. Schools like Harvard, Yale, and Columbia have proven that they are one of the best research institutions globally, and yet there are also oversized LACs like Brown and Dartmouth that rely on their ivy label to retain their prestige.

Even though the WASP establishment is a thing of the past, our sense of prestige is still constructed around it.[/quote]

Ahh the "Dartmouth and Brown are oversized LACs!" idiot is back.

For those unfamiliar:

- He doesn't know what makes an LAC an LAC
- He doesn't know what makes a university a university
- He doesn't know much about the Ivy League and what it is
- He doesn't know anything about Dartmouth or Brown that wasn't on Junior's rejection letter
- He doesn't know much, if anything, about colleges, or anything else, that I can tell.
- He doesn't know these things despite being informed of them many times, which indicates he's got an agenda

So, proceed in reading his posts with caution. 
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The question is whether this is started by someone who just hates Brown or part of a big, creepy public relations campaign managed by someone down the hall from whoever made Critical Race Theory into a tool Republicans use to try to pry potential swing voters away from the Democrats.

I think what happens is that some of the folks who design those campaigns live in the DMV area and test market campaigns here before they move the campaigns onto Facebook and Twitter.

The strategy here seems to be to get people to rank or grade universities; then to move people to talking about how colleges are mean and expensive, and how a degree in anything other than STEM or business is a scam; then to increase our resentment of how mean and expensive universities and SLACs are; then to give cover to a few Democrats in Congress who could be led to vote for new efforts to increase universities’ taxes or cut their revenue.

One result of a strategy like that is to reduce the number of intelligent, financially secure, respected people who can object when leaders do something bad. You get rid of the new Sakharovs quickly.

Another result is that maybe you can cut down the number of liberal and progressive people in places like Austin and Charlottesville enough to make the states a little more red. [/quote]

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