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"Through its graduates, Yale exerts an outsized influence on the daily lives of most Americans — for example, Yale educated three of the last six U.S. president
by cafard 5y ago
"Through its graduates, Yale exerts an outsized influence on the daily lives of most Americans — for example, Yale educated three of the last six U.S. presidents, and eight sitting Supreme Court Justices attended either Harvard or Yale at some point."
Three of six presidents: Bush, Bush, and (law school only) and Clinton. None of the three seems or seemed much afflicted by wokeness.
Of the eight sitting Supreme Court justices indicated, five are conservative to deeply conservative.
I would say that all graduated from these colleges or law schools when the tone was more or less liberal. In G.H.W. Bush's day maybe it was less, but even then William F. Buckley used Yale as bad example in Up From Liberalism.
- gruez 5y ago>Three of six presidents: Bush, Bush, and (law school only) and Clinton. None of the three seems or seemed much afflicted by wokeness. Maybe because they graduated Yale decades ago and the culture wars wasn't a thing yet?
- cafard 5y agoThe vocabulary has changed somewhat, but the culture wars have been going on for a long time.