As long as they are favoring children of alumni for admission while being tax free I truly don't give a shit about whatever weasely thing they have to say. Drop dead
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Probably why the student org's sense of tact is evidently so fucked up
Buncha rich kids who've never experienced social consequences for saying something controversial before.
Like yeah Israel certainly hasn't helped itself in preventing the conditions that lead to mass outbreaks of violence, but there's an infinite number of ways to say that more tactfully immediately after a civilian massacre.
All the sense and ability to read the room of someone peddling the line about America funding the taliban right after 9/11
Not a super good comparison since that's a misconception based on mot understanding that multiple groups went under the title of Mujahedeen and the one the US directly supported went on to become the northern alliance government, not the pashto irredentist taliban, meanwhile Israel actually did do the shit someone would typically point to while making this kind of accusation, but the point about the overall tone deafness of such an accusation still stands.
This is a really good point.
Why is it that people who attend such prestigious universities always turn out to be so unimaginably dim-witted.
It's the same with Oxford and Cambridge in the UK. Some of the people who attended those places, I honestly wouldn't trust to tie their own shoelaces.
Sure they can quote Beowulf in the original Norse, but when it comes to critical thinking and common sense, they're not so much scraping the bottom of the barrel as underneath it.
At least they can quote Beowulf. I have no idea what the rich shits who went to Ivies can do except look good in a suit, go on Fox news, drink cocktails, embezzle pension funds, and lie.