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This is embarrassing and antithetical to what a university should be. The whole purpose of an undergraduate education should be to build young people into havi
by colechristensen 4y ago
This is embarrassing and antithetical to what a university should be.
The whole purpose of an undergraduate education should be to build young people into having the knowledge and skills to really be free in society. A literally “liberal” education in the original sense of the word.
Instead adults have to ask permission to have guests.
That’s how you manufacture consent for a police state, making people live in an environment where the authorities have to approve of everything until their mid twenties.
This is also how you waste student money, state money, research money funneling it away into entirely unnecessary jobs.
University of California students just got done with a strike, maybe Stanford students should strike until the administration stops wasting their money.
- laidoffamazon 4y agoThey should have simply have gone to their state school. That they didn't indicates quite a bit, imho (they think the rest of us who can't get in are subhuman, and in the Stanford case, are probably eugenicists explicitly).
- colechristensen 4y agoUh, no. This is ridiculous. I’m met plenty of perfectly nice Stanford folks. A bit of an elitist trend in a few, but the “subhuman” and “eugenicist” comments are really unnecessary.
- laidoffamazon 4y agoIt's the natural conclusion of their beliefs in themselves as ubermensch - that the rest of us are untermensch. I'm sure many are nice on the surface, but they fundamentally don't think of us as equals - there's a good reason why they didn't go to their state schools after all. You can see it in people like Dan Gross who named his venture fund after the eugenics research fund Pioneer Fund and called other people "NPCs" in a lecture that got big on HN a few years ago.
- entropy47 4y agoI can't think of any other reason somebody might name an innovation focused business "Pioneer". Must be a nod to eugenics. There are certainly narcissists at Stanford (and any other prestigious institution) but this desperate need to write off thousands of intelligent people based on some kind of imagined persecution is pretty weird to me.
- laidoffamazon 4y ago1) It's real persecution 2) I think the last thing they need is even more constant adoration for their intelligence, which they definitely believe is genetically derived 3) I think he literally should have googled "Pioneer Fund" before naming it that because it's literally a disambiguation on Wikipedia [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund
- entropy47 4y agoI don't think I'm going to be able to change your mind, but chatting to some more Stanford grads might. Not everybody is the stereotype. I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience. Just for the record, I studied at a very unprestigious journalism school in Australia. But I work with many Stanford grads and in a company with it's fair share of assholes, they have all been lovely.