Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin among several dozen snared in elite college cheating scheme, authori

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  1. Steve N

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    Whatever.
     
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    And you prove that you didn't read the article or my whole post. Lame fail. Sticking one's head in the sand doesn't make life easier.
     
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    Oh ,look. You actually read some of the article but not all of it. Again:

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    So its not ok.

    Even if there are 700.
     
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    Scottie Pippin is a name I haven't heard in a while.

    One of the few elite athletes who separated politics from business.

    Pictured with wife below.

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    If you have a point to make lets hear it

    If not then you go fetch it yourself
     
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    What the hell does any of that have to do with the conversation at hand.
     
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    Yeah sure

    More of the standard liberal superiority that no one sees except you

    Trunp beat your vaunted liberal establishment at their own game

    And that was not by luck
     
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    https://www.esquire.com/news-politi...lege-admissions-bribe-scandal-fbi-indictment/

    The College Admissions Scandal Just Made Affirmative Action Complaints Look Completely Ridiculous
    400-Gs to a soccer coach to recruit a kid who couldn't play soccer?



    The whole scheme, as described in the indictment unsealed in Boston on Tuesday, is a master class in wealth and privilege. (The only small diamond amid the sewage is that it makes all those people who went to court arguing that their Caucasianism had been discriminated against through affirmative action look completely ridiculous.) Otherwise, this prosecution is going to be a feast of fat things. Wealthy people paying to have the books cooked on their kids' SATs, and putting on a little pageant in order to do it.




    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/college-bribery-scam-affirmative-action_n_5c896a88e4b0450ddae6f19c


    Elite College Admissions Scandal Shows Irony Of Affirmative Action Complaints
    “Who’s getting the thumb on the scale? Largely it’s not low-income or brown or black kids, it’s wealthy kids,” one expert said.



    For many, the college admissions scam of wealthy people allegedly paying bribes to get their kids into elite universities only confirmed what they already knew: Higher education is rigged to benefit wealthy, white students. But the scandal also laid bare the irony of people who complain affirmative action gives an unfair advantage to students of color in admissions, when in fact rich, white kids get the scales heavily tipped in their favor.

    “This scandal is just the extreme, the illegal extreme, but it’s in a continuum with legacy admissions, with Jared Kushner, with all these other thumbs on the scale that wealthy kids get that are legal,” said Susan Dynarski, professor of economics, education and public policy at the University of Michigan.








    For years we have had innumerable threads by right wingers who condemn affirmative action. So what do they say now???
     
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    I already know the answer, but I wouldn't expect you to want to educate yourself when it is so much easier for you to believe black people never earn anything for themselves.
     
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    I feel kinda bad my Alma mater hasn't been implicated.
     
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    You cant compare AA with this scam. These families are already privileged in every way possible and stealing a deserving students place. I hope they continue to expose all who are involved.
     
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    What's wrong with cheaters? The biggest cheat is in the WH, my bet is you not only support that cheater and liar, you actually voted for him.
    Hypocrisy much?
    Didn't he cheat many out of tuition at a fake tRUMP U? Doesn't bother you in the least, does it.
     
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    That's why AA is needed. To offset the non black elites who can buy whatever they want. The 1%ers.
     
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    I bet this isn't the only scam in the country.
    The USA system is all set up to skirt the rules.
    The wealthier one is, the more rules they have available to skirt.
     
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    Unless you expose yur brainchild to the open air its meaningless
     
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    Actually if we didnt have preferential yreatment for the slower minorities some of these hollywood elite kids might have won a seat treatment
     
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    Careful, your racism slip is showing.
     
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    If you need set-asides to get minorites through the door they are not really qualifed to be there

    We are better off with one outstanding black student than 5 mediocre monorities

    Or In another words one Ben Carson instead of five Barack Obamas
     
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    They usually qualify intellectually, but intellect isn't always the only reason one gets selected. Finance is another reason. I am sure there are a few more qualifications that get looked at.
    But skin color should not be one of them. Finance should not be, IMO, either.
     
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    Why don't you read the thread and you won't be the clueless one? The answers are there if you chose to find them. If not that is fine too. Just be the idiot that speaks to only hear themselves speak.
     
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    I’m not going to play Go Fetch with you

    If you have a point to make lets hear it
     
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