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Phillip's avatar

From my perspective (writing from Down Under) this is a very parochial shit-show.

The most important question is how do either the intakes and graduates of the Ivies compare to their peers in China and Russia? If Andrei Martyanov is to be believed, one would expect them to compare poorly.

The education systems in China and Russia are altogether free from the ideological and political trends at work in the USA throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The dumbing down of education in general, confusion over the aims of education, contests over the curriculum and the misallocation of opportunity by class and race must inevitably have an adverse impact.

Dissidents should take comfort from the fact that the Ivies are incapable of managing admissions with any integrity. Compromised standards of admission to the Ivies guarantees further erosion in the competence and reliability of the US elite. They also guarantee failure in the competition with China and Russia in research and development (above all in quantum computing, aerospace and biotech).

The US long ago chose to prioritise Civil Rights ideologies over education. Predictably, this has fostered racial cronyism and nepotism. It is inevitable (and no intrinsic injustice) that the forces of Woke will disrupt the present situation to the advantage of the most forceful and aggressive aspirants to the existing elite.

The smart thing would be to abandon the Ivies to their fate and focus on the dissemination of knowledge and skill to those most suitable. Red states should build their own alternative institutions. Red state dissidents should foster study abroad. The true intrinsic value of Ivy diplomas can be exposed easily enough: the ultimate metric for human capital is the capacity/skill of individuals.

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the long warred's avatar

“The Iron Law of Arithmetic demands that percentages must sum to 100.”

I guess you never heard of VA disability 😉😜

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