The Atlantic Cares About Rich White People

[Michael_ Gee]

If this has been pointed out before I apologize, but nobody but well-to-do white people read the Atlantic. They are also exactly the kind of people who believe in elite colleges as a sign of success in our society.

 

[justgladtobehere]

If this has been pointed out before I apologize, but nobody but well-to-do white people read the Atlantic. They are also exactly the kind of people who believe in elite colleges as a sign of success in our society.

I get your point. And it was what I was trying to say, I guess. But how does a leading, liberal elite publication put out such a dumb article?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I get your point. And it was what I was trying to say, I guess. But how does a leading, liberal elite publication put out such a dumb article?

Come to Lexington, Mass. sometime. It's an affluent, well-educated suburb chock full of Atlantic readers. And college admissions is by far the number one concern of the majority of its 35,000 residents. The guidance counselor at the high school is better known, better paid, and far more controversial than the football coach. Article is simple clickbait for folks like that.

 

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it also was a well-written, well-reported dive into a half-mad, self-obsessed, tone-deaf subculture. no matter the socio-economic plane, that's always fascinating.

 

[DanOregon]

This is off-topic I know, but came across this video looking for the "Leave no doubt" scene in Remember the Titans. The ending killed me. Love soccer parents.

 

[justgladtobehere]

it also was a well-written, well-reported dive into a half-mad, self-obsessed, tone-deaf subculture. no matter the socio-economic plane, that's always fascinating.

It may have been well written and accurate, but have some teeth.

 

[tonygunk]

"The kid who would have gone to Yale now goes to Georgetown"

Oh no. Not Georgetown.

Meanwhile, more than 200,000 are dead and so many more unemployed or underemployed. But think of the kids who have to go to Georgetown.

 

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it's actually possible to think about the 200,000, the unemployed, the underemployed AND the overentitled kid who have to go to Georgetown. you do read on more than one topic a month, no?

 

[tonygunk]

Clearly you didn't read the whole story. It's choc full of quotes like these, where rich white people feel afflicted.

 

[tapintoamerica]

"The kid who would have gone to Yale now goes to Georgetown"

Oh no. Not Georgetown.

Meanwhile, more than 200,000 are dead and so many more unemployed or underemployed. But think of the kids who have to go to Georgetown.

I thought the same thing. Tebow forbid a kid goes to the 20th-ranked college in the country.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Eric Trump went to Georgetown. Point of fact.

If you plume yourself on where you went to school ... none of that really matters anymore.
We've been shown that amply.

 

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"The kid who would have gone to Yale now goes to Georgetown"

Oh no. Not Georgetown.

Meanwhile, more than 200,000 are dead and so many more unemployed or underemployed. But think of the kids who have to go to Georgetown.

Heh. Now I gotta send this story to my sister, who went to Georgetown 20-plus years ago. Maybe she wouldn't get in now.