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galen  ·  2141 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: College May Not Be Worth It Anymore

All I'm saying: you claimed that the economic 1% are "by definition" not intellectually mediocre. That's straight-up false.

I've met plenty of rich kids-- old and new money, thanks--who are just as intellectually vacuous as your stereotypical ASU student. As for the kids of the 1% being too few to make a difference? First of all, they're influential by virtue of their socioeconomic position, not by virtue of raw numbers. And second of all, my only claim was that they're indicative of a wider societal pressure, which you also identified and criticized.





b_b  ·  2141 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're trying to turn an education problem into a class war problem. Not everything is a class war, even though that's en vogue in certain circles right now.

You are reading what you wanted to believe I wrote, and not what I actually wrote. 1% by definition are a small segment of the population.

galen  ·  2141 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're projecting.

I never claimed that the 1% are the problem. I claimed that at my university, the children of the 1% exemplify a problem that runs through our entire society. I don't read class war anywhere in that claim.

What you actually wrote:

    it aims at mediocrity, by definition not the 1%

If my understanding of English syntax is correct, your relative sentence "by definition not the 1%" refers back to the antecedent, "mediocrity."