Posted on 12/07/2023 5:24:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Ivy league and their kindred so-called elite campuses may soon go the way of Disney and Bud Light.
After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses.
Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic.
But immediately after October 7—and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces—the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America.
Indeed, not a day goes by when a university professor or student group has not spouted anti-Semitic hatred. Often, they threaten and attack Jewish students, or engage in mass demonstrations calling for the extinction of Israel.
Why and how did purportedly enlightened universities become incubators of such primordial hatred?
After the George Floyd riots, reparatory admissions—the effort to admit diverse students beyond their numbers in the general population—increased.
Elite universities like Stanford and Yale boasted that their so-called “white” incoming student numbers had plunged to between 20 and 40 precent, despite whites making up 68-70 percent of the general population.
The abolition of the SAT requirement, and often the comparative ranking of high school grade point averages, have ended the ancient and time-proven idea of meritocracy. Brilliant high school transcripts and test scores no longer warrant admissions to so-called elite schools.
One result was that the number of Jews has nosedived from 20-30 percent of Ivy League student bodies during the 1970s and 1980s to 10-15 percent.
Jewish students are also currently stereotyped as “white” and “privileged”—and thus considered as fair game on campus.
At the same time, the number of foreign students, especially from the oil-rich Middle East, has soared on campuses. Most are subsidized by their homeland governments. They pay the full, non-discounted tuition rates to cash-hungry universities.
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Maybe white and Jewish students are too smart to go to the Poison Ivey League universities.
By avoiding Vietnam.
20 years of social media propaganda?
Ridiculous tuition costs?
Universities were lost the day “The Naked Communist” came out. Nut even before that, as Lenin so eloquently stated: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
It was telegraphed what the Marxists were going to do in academia. Instead of doing something, people were called McCarthyites and our political right backed off. Now apply this to every institution.
Parents footing the bill and the debacle of student loans are coming home roost. If my kid is an engineer or med school worthy, find a way. Other than that, one year of college to make an effort and show me As and Bs or sonny boy of mine, you can go to work.
The loss of the universities started with the Vietnam student deferment.
Too much money available discouraged sound practices of business management, like not hiring idiots/firing idiots.
Its probably that aimple.
Back in the 1950s it was joked that there were more communists teaching at Princeton than in Moscow. Years later it was found that it wasn’t a joke!
There are several political groups that make a practice of only hiring their own kind. Communists/socialists/Marxists, homosexuals, etc will always at the very least top load organizations with like minded people precisely because these groups seek to conquer and destroy.
Eventually these people find their way into positions of authority and they very quickly drive out anyone who doesn’t sign on to their groupthink.
This is why such diverse organizations as AMA and AARP are now full blown doctrinaire Marxists. Not to mention almost every journalist endeavor, university, government agency, and Hollywood. They are drawn to power and influence.
“Too much money available discouraged sound practices of business management, “
Bingo! Government involvement. Guaranteed Student loans.
They have succeeded.
Book Review: America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
I need to get that book. I really like Christopher Rufo’s articles over at City Journal. I usually post them here on FR.
Start with federal money and accreditation to enforce a universal race to the bottom.
I call it “edufacturing.”
White liberal women. Same as it ever was.
Yup—Karenocracy.
Eventually these people find their way into positions of authority and they very quickly drive out anyone who doesn’t sign on to their groupthink.
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this happens in every fed agency.
seen and experianced it 1st hand in usfs and blm.
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