Article

2021-03-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by badanov 2021-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "Catholicism does not handle people in groups according to some superficial characteristic such as ethnicity or skin color. Instead, God teaches us that he values each single person. Each individual is a unique child of God, and God has a unique good in mind for each of us. The rest of us either help to advance that good – because we can conceive of none better – or we ought to get out of the way." https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2021/03/11/underrating-jesus-christ/

Posted by newc 2021-03-11 01:51|| 2021-03-11 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Hence Rule No. 1 of grifting - There can be nothing greater than the grift. I think Marx commented on that in some way...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-03-11 08:25|| 2021-03-11 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 There is not education in these elite ivy league schools but rather communist indoctrination.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-03-11 09:36|| 2021-03-11 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess it never occurred to them to seek a less prestigious school that better meets their needs for education. They can't imagine sending their kids to a Midwestern college, even Northwestern.

Posted by Bobby 2021-03-11 11:00|| 2021-03-11 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 I hate to break the news to them; but the Ivy League is also looking for "diversity"--which meant sharply reducing the number of admits from the snooty prep schools--as long ago as 1966 (when Yale admitted me from a Catholic high school in California as part of the then diversification effort.)

Posted by Tom 2021-03-11 11:52|| 2021-03-11 11:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Sooner or later, the aspirational and status-obsessed parents will realize the ivy+ and top liberal arts colleges are just an elite circle jerk that has nothing to do with education.

They're now basically finishing schools that teach a set of manners and turns of phrase that send signals of belonging to a particular social circle. That circle now defines itself as much by Woke bullshit as by any measure of real achievement or mastery of anything.

Posted by Fat Bob Panda4017 2021-03-11 12:13|| 2021-03-11 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 I guess it never occurred to them to seek a less prestigious school that better meets their needs for education. They can't imagine sending their kids to a Midwestern college, even Northwestern.

Not so. Harvard-Westlake School in Beverly Hills sends a very large % of its kids to UChicago and U. Michigan as well as Northwestern. The common trait here is leftist politics: even Chicago has become Woke in the last 5 years.

The top public schools in California are full of Asians, mainly Chinese, who tend toward the subjects that still favor merit, rigor and no-BS: engineering and math. Those schools and their Asian students prefer the top flagship public universities that are known for STEM-- not just UCLA-UCB-UCSD-UCI but also STEM powerhouses like U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon.

Posted by Enver Chineger4228 2021-03-11 12:21|| 2021-03-11 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 If all it is is woke networking then the folks involved are probably happy. That networking will mean even an idiot can have jobs and support as long as they don't cross the woke/mob.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-03-11 15:02|| 2021-03-11 15:02|| Front Page Top

23:46 trailing wife
23:45 Solomon Julet4166
23:30 Punky Cholutch1770
23:16 Punky Cholutch1770
23:15 Punky Cholutch1770
21:53 Arithmetic Owenkimchi9873
21:48 Anyone Hypothermic8356
21:31 Pancho Mussolini4855
21:28 Ebbaiting Elmeck2571
21:24 Threreper Schwarzeneggar6629
21:18 Victor Emmanuel Uneretch3731
21:01 Injun Chomomble7936
20:53 Injun Chomomble7936
20:35 Procopius2k
20:33 Injun Chomomble7936
20:08 jpal
20:07 Rambler in Virginia
19:42 Clem
19:39 Clem
19:33 swksvolFF
19:31 Airandee
19:29 Airandee
19:26 jpal
19:06 Injun Chomomble7936