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A comment on Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year. Parent comment

Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by sct202 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:19PM (#23540934)
Interest in the topic is what drove the popularity around books like Hillbilly Elegy and tons to articles in NYT and WaPo after the 2016 election about poor white people and what were the challenges that they were facing and motivations.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by xyzzyz on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:46PM (#23541225)
You mean the ones which explained that the poor whites are actually privileged racists, who are too lazy to learn to code?
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by cycrutchfield on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:26PM (#23542421)
Ah yes, this is the level of insight in comments that I come to Hacker News for. Excellent work.
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