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2025-06-05 -Great Cultural Revolution

DEI Should Have Ended Harvard's ‘Elite' Status 60 Years Ago (Or More)

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-05 02:50|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [132 views ] Top

#1 Justice Thomas is correct; new name (DEI) given an old program.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-05 02:56|| 2025-06-05 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Is that why our government is so dysfunctional? Because elite universities used some criteria other than merit to determine who would be admitted? IOW, elite students from elite families got admitted and certain demographics got admitted regardless of merit? Then they went on to get the top jobs in government, academia and in major corporations because they graduated from schools like Harvard? They were on the inside track, the game was rigged in their favor? And then, since they were arrogant and incompetent, they screwed everything up?

Whatever happened to the best and the brightest?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-06-05 12:11|| 2025-06-05 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Whatever happened to the best and the brightest?

The system chews them up and spits them out.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-06-05 12:17|| 2025-06-05 12:17|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Why do you think civilizations collapse?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-06-05 12:20|| 2025-06-05 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 ...hierarchical, tribal, and territorial entities who once successful against their neighbors usually beset by corruption, civil war, and mismanagement coupled with an outside threat that either cleans up or is welcome the those disenfranchised.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-06-05 15:01|| 2025-06-05 15:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ^You confuse cause and effect. Civilizations fall because they stop being run by the best and the brightest.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-06-05 15:05|| 2025-06-05 15:05|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Comments 5 and 6 are certainly not mutually exclusive.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-05 17:38|| 2025-06-05 17:38|| Front Page Top

#8 The best and brightest are nice, but not nearly as necessary as reality-based and common sensical. The destruction happens when the rulers, however bright or stupid, live in a dream world and insist on imposing those impossible dreams on the rest of us.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-05 21:20|| 2025-06-05 21:20|| Front Page Top

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