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Re:Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/childr... by akvadrako on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:58AM (#21134525)
It's not about allowing it – we should allow institutions to choose their own members. The problem is that we are giving them money just so they can educate rich kids.

We should eliminate government support for Harvard like tax breaks, subsidized loans and grants.

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Re:Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/childr... by s17n on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:08PM (#21153222)
The problem is that institutions like Harvard are gatekeepers to power (eg, every sitting supreme court justice went to Harvard or Yale). So when you allow these institutions to use legacy admissions, you are establishing a hereditary power structure in the country. Which, given that our founding myth is the rejection of aristocracy, I wouldn't think people would be OK with.
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