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Hematomato 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Harvard is where rich familes send their kids to meet other rich kids.

It's never been about education. It's always been about networking. We've all had a few hundred-million-dollar ideas in our lifetimes, but lacked the resources to implement them. If you go to Harvard, your roommate's dad will invest the resources to implement them.

"Woke" was how the rich networked over the last decade, and we're now drifting into a new era; but Harvard is still where you go to meet the rich and become accepted as one of them.

If you're looking for a college that doesn't mind racism, you might want to try Liberty University. They heavily suppress views they don't like, but it's likely that you don't like those views either and therefore won't mind.

BanditMcFuklebuck 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

When you indiscriminantly use the n word you give reddit alternatives like saidit a bad name. I'm here because Im tired of getting banned on that asshole website for expressing normal views, not to be racist. Plus, if we want to build a coalition of like minded people, we should avoid overt racial slurs. I welcome people of any color that are fed up with the current state of affairs and if I start slurring them and theyre turned away then reddit wins. and lets face it, the common enemy is reddit.

In answer to you question regarding harvard, you can get an education anywhere. these folks that are whining because they were turned away from the ivys because theyre white or chinese, they can turn right around and get a free ride and a stipend from a lower tier school. I could care less what color or demographic the elites of this country are. 🤷‍♂️

Nonbinaryandroid 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun 1 month ago

Education was never the value of a Harvard degree. It was networking.

You can give yourself a Harvard level education for free on YouTube if you want. You'll lack the connections with other students faculty and future opportunities that come from it.

Lots of college education is grade A bullshit you've just got to regurgitate to get a degree but that doesn't change for a high rank college or a low rank one. Go to a liberal university and you'll have to do bullshit land acknowledgements. Christian university and they'll replace it with psych 101 classes where you learn about demons.

What a college degree shows employers is "this person will bite their tongue to get shit done" because you don't want to hire someone who is going to flip their shit when they find out where phone batteries really comes from. Liberal colleges simply have plenty of causes to capture the, to borrow Marxist terminology, revolutionary aspirations of the youth, and shunt it in directions that are largely harmless to the establishment which you see as woke ideology. All the while these students whine and complain about how sexist racist and colonialist the college administration is because of old statues or some shit they get themselves in crippling debt to get their degree and practically ensure they are unable, financially, to raise any effective opposition against the status quo when they grow up and stop being stupid.

So is college worth it? If you don't go I to debt for it I say yes. If you can ignore the bullshit and focus on networking with useful people and maintaining a career focus it is very good. But if you have to go into crippling debt for it you're probably better off just finding some shit job and working your way up the ladder if you're directionless like many young people are.

ForbiddenKnowledge[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 20 days ago

I'll have to look into the Catholic colleges then. At least every culture recognizes that demons exist and has recorded interactions with them, unlike land acknowledgements which are entirely fictional

Nonbinaryandroid 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 18 days ago

You'll either be forced to give land acknowledgements or faith acknowledgements.

If you're creative about it you can get out of both. I've refused to give land acknowledgements because I believe they are highly offensive to natives and immoral. Basically imagine I punched and knocked out the disabled student took their waller and then later thanked them for paying for lunch. You going to give the land back? Nope. Then shut up. History happened and you don't need to keep rubbing it into the natives every time about how your race conquered them.

Same with public prayer. Some Christians tried to force me to do it once at some event and basically I just pulled out that verse where Jesus says "Don't pray in public like the pharisees, go pray in your closet."

They are forced to either accept that I have my own beliefs on the matter and tolerate it as I tolerate their nonsense or else they can attempt to punish me for my sincerely held beliefs and draw more attention to my position.

ForbiddenKnowledge[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 17 days ago

What is involved in a land acknowledgement anyway? I haven't been to college... yet.

I watched youtube and it seems to be some pathetic essay written than somehow says "you were here first..."

Is there more involved than that?

DesertOfMirrors 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

I don’t think it does any good to concern troll.

On an individual basis, I’m not racist at all. I’ll give anyone a chance. But collectively: stereotypes exist for a reason.

WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

I don't know about Harvard but I was first of my class at MIT. https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw

ForbiddenKnowledge[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 29 days ago

I'd delete this. Someone might dox you.

MagicMike 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Top 1% create the orders. The top 20% implement the orders. All the rest take orders. Our society has its own Inner Party, Outer Party, and Proles.

If you want to join the Inner Party, you must be very lucky: have an IQ > 150 and/or lots of money. If you are a prole, go to a state school as your ticket to the Outer Party. If you are fine being a prole, go to a trade school — learn to drive a truck or become a plumber, etc.

ForbiddenKnowledge[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 28 days ago

What do I go if I want to use my life to rally the proles to revolt against the big brother and save us from the abusive psychopaths in charge and usher in true democracy? Where do I go then?

MagicMike 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 27 days ago

In the book 1984, Orwell actually says it’s pointless: society is like a gyroscope that always rights itself. You could lead a revolution but eventually society reverts back to the pyramid form. In other words, the intelligent and/or rich will always exploit the rest.

Our only hope is if AI takes governance away from humans and said AI is benevolent.

ForbiddenKnowledge[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 27 days ago

You could look at it like a gyroscope or you could look at it like a boat.

I think what you are saying is like saying it's pointless fixing a boat because sooner or later it will leak again.

As long as the just war criteria is met, and the government is committing intolerable abuse on it's citizenry, then I say it's worth doing.

MagicMike 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 27 days ago

It’s somewhat more like trying to teach Calculus and most everyone in the class has an IQ of 85. Do what you may but they’ll revert to being hard wired stupid.

Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Hell no, TUM, LMU, HU, Universität zu Köln, University of Münster and a few more are 100 times better and far less $$$$$$$$$$$$

hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 month ago

Harvard has a DEI access school called Harvard College where low achievers can go if they fit the right profile. They get to say they went to Harvard without needing to worry about unjust things like grades an' sheeit.