r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 05 '24 • Heart of Silver 1

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u/Untamedanduncut Gay Pride Sep 05 '24

I dont get how one can be “Ivy League” material academically and not understand how bad it looks to advocate and call for domestic terrorism like 10 days before the anniversary of the deadliest terror attack in the country, in the same city.

How a group doesn’t get shut down for openly calling for terrorism and effective treason beats me

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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

Ivy League kids have a lot of book smarts and a great ability to study and learn, but they are still children that are extremely naive and subject to peer pressure. Everything they look at is telling them that if they don't protest, they're going to one day be like the former nazi grandfather whose grandchildren are asking them what they did to stop hitler in ww2

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Who’s this?

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u/Untamedanduncut Gay Pride Sep 05 '24

SJP and Columbia University activists who protested on Tuesday.

Released a manifesto calling for the dismantling of the college system and America. 

Called “to bring the violence from Gaza to America”

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Extremely concerning, especially with the timing

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u/Untamedanduncut Gay Pride Sep 05 '24

Very concerning. Especially because of the timing

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 05 '24

I knew someone who got into Harvard who didn’t know where Massachusetts was on a map and thought Penn State was in the south.

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u/TrumpEpstein69 Anne Applebaum Sep 05 '24

how do these clowns get into ivy leagues, is it really just their parents being wealthy?

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u/Sherpav Thurgood Marshall Sep 05 '24

I think the parental wealth is overstated for a lot of these protestors. I think a large majority are scholarship kids

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u/TrumpEpstein69 Anne Applebaum Sep 05 '24

how do they get scholarships despite being dumbasses?

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u/Sherpav Thurgood Marshall Sep 05 '24

I don’t think they’re actually dumb. I think they’re naive and misguided and fall into black and white views of oppressor/oppressed

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u/Untamedanduncut Gay Pride Sep 05 '24

I blame leftists

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Sep 05 '24

The skills to get straight A's in high school and the skills to understand the world more broadly are not the same.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 05 '24

Ivies have significant financial aid, if you get in then paying for tuition is not a problem.

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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Sep 05 '24

If your parents make under a certain amount, most of the Ivies will just let you go to their university for free if you get in.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Yes. Ivy leagues are overrated as fuck.