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Re:The End of the English Major by siva7 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:26AM (#34971138)
Standards can also act as a gatekeeper, discriminating against the underprivileged. So i'm glad that everyone gets the same chance, if rich or poor.
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Re:The End of the English Major by CrazyStat on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:34AM (#34971288)
> So i'm glad that everyone gets the same chance, if rich or poor.

They don't, though?

> The median family income of a student from Harvard is $168,800, and 67% come from the top 20 percent. About 1.8% of students at Harvard came from a poor family but became a rich adult.

From a NYTimes analysis [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...

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Re:The End of the English Major by Ambolia on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:32AM (#34971244)
I suppose this is trolling, but if it's not everybody doesn't really "get a change", you are just turning an english major into a different thing while keeping the name and trying to keep the prestige, though that won't last for long.
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