The College Admissions Bribery Scandal: A Black Market in White Privilege

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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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[RegulatorCountry]

I’m getting the impression that it’s white female privilege here, but somehow it’s getting spread to males. Is there even a male student involved in this?

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>>>It used to be a huge donation could get you in.

Yes. It’s a much better deal for the university if parents do it like the Kushner’s did. A $2.5 million pledge made to Harvard in 1998. Jared was Harvard class of 2003. The schools dont get anything out if the current scam.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

The moral equivalent, which rats support, is when Mexican moms sneak their kids across the border to try to make a better life for them.