Two Words - Jared Kushner, Three More - George W. Bush No One Has Ever Seriously Attacked The Real And Long Standing Affirmative Action For Rich Idiot Brats And Others Who Are Let In On The Basis Of Money

HERE IS A TIMELY report about the Ivy Leaguers of the Supreme Court destroying Affirmative Action for groups who have enjoyed a long legacy of economic exploitation, racism, discrimination, slavery, Jim Crow, other forms of violence and perpetual economic injustice.  It turns out, as the author of this article from the Guardian points out, that the real recipients of privileging are the 43% of white students who go to Harvard on the basis of the opposite of the merit and academic achievement. 

Ever wondered what it takes to get into Harvard? Stellar grades, impressive extracurriculars and based on a recently published study, having deep pockets and a parent who either works or went there. Those last two are pretty important for Harvard’s white students because only about 57% of them were admitted to the school based on merit.

In reality, 43% of Harvard’s white students are either recruited athletes, legacy students, on the dean’s interest list (meaning their parents have donated to the school) or children of faculty and staff (students admitted based on these criteria are referred to as ‘ALDCs’, which stands for ‘athletes’, ‘legacies’, ‘dean’s interest list’ and ‘children’ of Harvard employees). The kicker? Roughly three-quarters of these applicants would have been rejected if it weren’t for having rich or Harvard-connected parents or being an athlete.

Don't wait up nights for this to become the kind of media phenomena that the lies about Affrimative Action and its recipients have been over decades of white-privilege attacking Affirmative Action in the media because a lot of those guys are not only legacy admitted white guys, they're legacy hires in the media when they aren't hired on the basis of their having gone to one of the Ivies or Ivy equivalents.  

The media and elite educational institutions are essentially whore houses servicing the rich and powerful.   That tax I proposed here the other day, a steep tax on these institutions and everything about them should be considered sin taxes on that basis.  They are whore houses who will service anyone who adds money to their already obscene endowments and holdings.  Tax then and put all of the money raised into the education of the children and adults who are the least among us.  There's not a chance in hell that those institutions even with their piddling gestures in the other direction will ever do anything but continue dumping on them.