Dallas "social justice" group asking white people to pledge not to send their kids to Ivy League

[GP270watch]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

[Joe Republic]

Called it.

The damage has already been done among the fact-immune, however.  So mission accomplished for them.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

If you grew up in Highland Park, you will almost certainly be absolutely fine in life even if you attend a mediocre local school like UT-Arlington or North Texas.

Going to an Ivy League school isn't really worth the expense/effort from the standpoint of significantly improving your relative socioeconomic status if you're already in the upper socioeconomic strata.

The threshold for kids being able to just "whatever" their way through life and maintain high social status is a lot higher than this.  That works if your parents are tech founders, it doesn't work if they are just VP of XYZ making $200K at age 55.  You don't have to go to an Ivy, but you still have to be academically successful.

I said "do fine in life," not maintain elite social status. You can be academically successful or unsuccessful at any school. Some people fail out of Cornell. Some people graduate magna cum laude with a 4.0 at San Diego State.

If you want to live a "name brand" life where you work in the New York office of a white shoe law firm or at McKinsey/Bain or are a fellow at the Brookings Institution or a tenured Ivy League academic, or become a columnist for The Atlantic or The New York Times, then yes, you basically have to go to an Ivy League school (or Stanford or Chicago) to do those things no matter what your personal background is.

But if you "just" want to be in the highest earning 10% or so of society, living a nicer and more secure life than the overwhelming majority of Americans (to say nothing of the rest of the world) will ever experience, then, no, you really don't.

You can go to a UT-Arlington and get high grades and go to medical school (even one of those questionable ones in the Caribbean) and go be a specialist physician in a small town making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. You'll never be asked to join the National Academy of Medicine or be lecturing at Harvard Medical School or receive the prestige and deference of, say, Anthony Fauci, but you will have job security and a nice work-life balance and retire with millions of dollars in accrued wealth in a relatively inexpensive area. At a clinic I go to, one of the doctors went to medical school at Yale and another one went to medical school in the Barbados. You want to know what the difference is between them? The name that's on the piece of paper that hangs in their office. They both make plenty of money and do the same job.

You can go to a mediocre state university and major in engineering and become a project manager or go into technical sales and be able to live in a big house in a nice neighborhood, drive a nice car, and take nice ski and beach vacations. You won't be working on AI projects at Google; you won't be the next Zuckerberg. You'll be working on bank software or selling hydraulic components for oil rigs or construction companies. You'll be living in someplace like Sandy Springs, not Palo Alto. But that's hardly a life deserving of any sort of sympathy.

Plenty of kids who grow up in Highland Park and Preston Hollow and the other rich white Dallas neighborhoods just go to SMU, live the frat/sorority life, and use family/friend/alumni connections to go work for a local law firm or real estate firm. They end up in exactly the same place they were in before. "Giving up" going to Harvard/Yale/Princeton doesn't actually require them to give anything up.

[dead0man]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

maybe, but the Covington kid thread didn't get deleted and that was 100 times more embarrassing for the idiots posting in that <checks> 20 page thread.

it really is a good read, some of you aught to be ashamed, but I don't think that is an emotion you have.

[GP270watch]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

maybe, but the Covington kid thread didn't get deleted and that was 100 times more embarrassing for the idiots posting in that <checks> 20 page thread.

it really is a good read, some of you aught to be ashamed, but I don't think that is an emotion you have.

What does that have to do with this totally made up story? Explain please.

[dead0man]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

maybe, but the Covington kid thread didn't get deleted and that was 100 times more embarrassing for the idiots posting in that <checks> 20 page thread.

it really is a good read, some of you aught to be ashamed, but I don't think that is an emotion you have.

What does that have to do with this totally made up story? Explain please.

the "totally made up story" part

[Badger]

A reminder why this shouldn't even be bothered with discussing.

Their website was just registered at the end of May in Ontario, Canada, and their blog just started this past Friday.  There's no evidence that this "group" is more than one person (named 'Michele').

This is a nobody, singular. Literally 99 + percent of people outside of the genius who made this website really believe this s***. Call me when the n-double-acp or some actually prominent African-American leaders call for this. Ain't going to happen.

[GP270watch]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

maybe, but the Covington kid thread didn't get deleted and that was 100 times more embarrassing for the idiots posting in that <checks> 20 page thread.

it really is a good read, some of you aught to be ashamed, but I don't think that is an emotion you have.

What does that have to do with this totally made up story? Explain please.

the "totally made up story" part

 That's not an explanation...

[dead0man]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

maybe, but the Covington kid thread didn't get deleted and that was 100 times more embarrassing for the idiots posting in that <checks> 20 page thread.

it really is a good read, some of you aught to be ashamed, but I don't think that is an emotion you have.

What does that have to do with this totally made up story? Explain please.

the "totally made up story" part

 That's not an explanation...

-a non-story
-promoted to bash the political "other"
-started by foreigners who are unrelated to the story
-ran with by people who wanted it to be true
-easily debunked
-embarrassing to the people who ran with it

[Torie]

I assume that white people who already have such Ivy diplomas on their wall are allowed to keep them, right?

[GP270watch]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

maybe, but the Covington kid thread didn't get deleted and that was 100 times more embarrassing for the idiots posting in that <checks> 20 page thread.

it really is a good read, some of you aught to be ashamed, but I don't think that is an emotion you have.

What does that have to do with this totally made up story? Explain please.

the "totally made up story" part

 That's not an explanation...

-a non-story
-promoted to bash the political "other"
-started by foreigners who are unrelated to the story
-ran with by people who wanted it to be true
-easily debunked
-embarrassing to the people who ran with it

 I read the wiki on this incident and I'm not seeing the similarities but thanks for the attempt of an explanation. Unless the MAGA kids were actually pretending and were actors of a leftwing group operation, I don't see how these stories are the same.

[dead0man]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

maybe, but the Covington kid thread didn't get deleted and that was 100 times more embarrassing for the idiots posting in that <checks> 20 page thread.

it really is a good read, some of you aught to be ashamed, but I don't think that is an emotion you have.

What does that have to do with this totally made up story? Explain please.

the "totally made up story" part

 That's not an explanation...

-a non-story
-promoted to bash the political "other"
-started by foreigners who are unrelated to the story
-ran with by people who wanted it to be true
-easily debunked
-embarrassing to the people who ran with it

 I read the wiki on this incident and I'm not seeing the similarities but thanks for the attempt of an explanation. Unless the MAGA kids were actually pretending and were actors of a leftwing group operation, I don't see how these stories are the same.

correct, it is not the exact same story.  Thanks for the help.

[GP270watch]

Mods should delete this whole nonsense thread.

maybe, but the Covington kid thread didn't get deleted and that was 100 times more embarrassing for the idiots posting in that <checks> 20 page thread.

it really is a good read, some of you aught to be ashamed, but I don't think that is an emotion you have.

What does that have to do with this totally made up story? Explain please.

the "totally made up story" part

 That's not an explanation...

-a non-story
-promoted to bash the political "other"
-started by foreigners who are unrelated to the story
-ran with by people who wanted it to be true
-easily debunked
-embarrassing to the people who ran with it

 I read the wiki on this incident and I'm not seeing the similarities but thanks for the attempt of an explanation. Unless the MAGA kids were actually pretending and were actors of a leftwing group operation, I don't see how these stories are the same.

correct, it is not the exact same story.  Thanks for the help.

So why did you bring it up?

[dead0man]

So why did you bring it up?

I never suggested it was the exact same story....unless you have an actual point, I'm done here.  Good day.

[Donerail]

I said "do fine in life," not maintain elite social status. You can be academically successful or unsuccessful at any school. Some people fail out of Cornell. Some people graduate magna cum laude with a 4.0 at San Diego State.

I thought we were talking about elite institutions here?

[Badger]

AHEM!

A repeated reminder why this shouldn't even be bothered with discussing.

Their website was just registered at the end of May in Ontario, Canada, and their blog just started this past Friday.  There's no evidence that this "group" is more than one person (named 'Michele').

This is a nobody, singular. Literally 99 + percent of people outside of the genius who made this website really believe this s***. Call me when the n-double-acp or some actually prominent African-American leaders call for this. Ain't going to happen.