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Hekate

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12. You are exactly the kind of American who should have gone to college with a passle of foreign students...
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:18 PM
May 23

Your entire world would have opened up — and your college would have reaped great economic benefits from students having to pay full tuition and then some. I’m talking about public institutions specifically, since those are the ones I attended. Even my small community college in SoCal had a couple dozen back in the 1960s. My university had many more.

A place like Harvard was beyond the wilde$t dream$ of anyone in my family, ever, and for females, never. It was a “white man’s college” and a WASP college, with a tiny quota for Jews (which didn’t affect my family, although the Irish very notably are not WASP either)

Despite all that, Harvard has given enormously to our culture. Its problems are not the presence of foreign elite students. It’s always needed some DEI from its very own country.

Going back to what you said: don’t apologize for being “an anti-royalist” , apologize for your lack of experience. Especially since we now have a strongman president of our own who wants his idiot children to inherit his job. At least all the remaining European monarchies are bound by their countries’ constitutions, while our brutish strongman is ripping ours to shreds.

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