As other posters have pointed out, unfair admissions practices and snobbery at highly selective universities is not the only problem we're facing as a society.

But I agree with you that what you describe should stop already.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, it's not the rape and trafficking; it's the elitism that is ruining Harvard

And the Jew-chasing & plagiarism…

I am 90% sure you are not Jewish. I am. Trump is not helping to resolve anti-Semitism. That is not his agenda with any of this. It is so sad that so many people have fallen for his schtick. Jews are elite. He hates elite because they rejected him for so many years. And it is the non-elite who put him in power.

It is so ironic that for so many years the big problem with the Democratic party was that it was ivory tower white people telling the rest of the country what was wrong and creating ridiculous solutions. Now our big problem is that it is Trump telling people what they should be worried and upset about when most of these manufactured or exaggerated problems have absolutely no impact on their lives, yet they get all worked up over them.

The dumbing down of America. A Confederacy of Dunces.

Universities, including Harvard, and to a larger extent society itself have lost the mission of America’s universities. To take the best and brightest and make them the best they can be so that society as a whole can advance.

Not everyone should attend university. That is a modern day fallacy.

Anonymous wrote:This part was really eye-opening and powerful:

"This past year, the Trump administration has made its mission to delegitimize, attack, and destroy higher education. S. May Mailman, Trump’s former deputy assistant, devised many strategies to threaten Harvard’s federal funding. The Department of Health and Human Services, under the control of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’76, moved to block Harvard from receiving future research grants. Pete B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, recently severed academic ties between Harvard and the military. These stories display a glaringly obvious similarity: every member of the Trump administration mentioned above attended Harvard.

It’s the epitome of the absurd irony that is becoming American fascism. The university under constant attack by an increasingly authoritarian government is the same university that propagates such authoritarianism. Harvard can claim that it is anti-Trump, but Harvard and Trump both occupy the same ivory tower.

When Harvard took the Trump administration to court over federal funding cuts, it ostensibly attempted to bury this fact. To the outside observer, a seemingly simple binary emerged: Harvard is the elite done right — the intellectual, the culturally-competent, the politically-reasonable. Trump is the elite run amok — the dirty-dealing, the democracy-destroying, the bigot."

Nailed it.

This part was really eye-opening and powerful:

"This past year, the Trump administration has made its mission to delegitimize, attack, and destroy higher education. S. May Mailman, Trump’s former deputy assistant, devised many strategies to threaten Harvard’s federal funding. The Department of Health and Human Services, under the control of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’76, moved to block Harvard from receiving future research grants. Pete B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, recently severed academic ties between Harvard and the military. These stories display a glaringly obvious similarity: every member of the Trump administration mentioned above attended Harvard.

It’s the epitome of the absurd irony that is becoming American fascism. The university under constant attack by an increasingly authoritarian government is the same university that propagates such authoritarianism. Harvard can claim that it is anti-Trump, but Harvard and Trump both occupy the same ivory tower.

When Harvard took the Trump administration to court over federal funding cuts, it ostensibly attempted to bury this fact. To the outside observer, a seemingly simple binary emerged: Harvard is the elite done right — the intellectual, the culturally-competent, the politically-reasonable. Trump is the elite run amok — the dirty-dealing, the democracy-destroying, the bigot."

Anonymous wrote:
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The release of the documents should compel the University to reflect: How can Harvard claim its goal of teaching students to serve the world when our professors, clubs, and organizations prioritize a tiny fraction of it? The documents should also compel the administration to act: Harvard itself is an incredibly inequitable place. Student organizations — and undergraduate social life more broadly — have been criticized for being stacked heavily against those without connections. And perhaps most insidious is Harvard’s unwavering preference for so-called ALDCs – athletes, legacies, dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff. Without dismantling our own elitism, how can Harvard begin to fight the product of it?
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https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/2/26/langer-harvard-epstein-elitism/

I guess people are starting to see elitism for what it really is.. but I doubt Harvard or elitism will die anytime soon.

Great article.

Anonymous wrote:I'm much more worried about the opposite extreme - stupidity and lack of critical thinking skills that have brainwashed so much of our country.

Anyone who routinely uses terms like "woke" and "TDS" and is obsessive about transgender athletes (there are very few of them and this has no impact on almost all of our lives) and sacrificing all of our civil rights to tackle the issue of illegal immigrants (which is an issue but not nearly the gigantic one people have been convinced it is) is scary and should just leave and start their own pathetic country rather than ruining ours.

God Bless America

This.