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The Facebook messaging group was at one point titled "Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens."
It began when about 100 members of Harvard College's incoming freshman class contacted each other through the university's official Class of 2021 Facebook group. They created a messaging group where students could share memes about popular culture — a growing trend on the Internet among students at elite colleges.
But then, the exchanges took a dark turn, according to an article published in the Harvard Crimson on Sunday. Some of the group's members decided to form an offshoot group in which students could share obscene, "R-rated" memes, a student told the Crimson. The founders of the messaging group demanded that students post provocative memes in the main group chat to gain admittance to the smaller group.
The students in the spinoff group exchanged memes and images "mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust and the deaths of children," sometimes directing jokes at specific ethnic or racial groups, the Crimson reported. One message "called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child 'piñata time'" while other messages quipped that "abusing children was sexually arousing," according to images of the chat described by the Crimson.
Then, university officials caught on. And in mid-April, after administrators discovered the offensive, racially charged meme exchanges, at least 10 incoming students who participated in the chat received letters informing them that their offers of admission had been revoked.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @01:16PM (3 children)
You're interpreting his comment wrong. Saying "virtue signaling" is the newest way right wing authoritarian followers have of virtue signaling. People in the Political Correctness movement are new to the right-wing authoritarian follower game so they haven't quite figured out how to fit in with more traditional kinds of right wing authoritarianism.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday June 07 2017, @04:16PM (1 child)
In this case it's both though. Which is to say, while the poster is virtue-signalling, *so is Harvard.* GP is completely right about Harvard's elitism, especially in the economic sense; how many of our greediest greedheads went to the Ivy Leagues, for example?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday June 07 2017, @04:34PM
It's an interesting list of Ivies with movers and shakers. For example, among presidents, you have:
Harvard - John Adams, John Q Adams, Rutherford B Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, George W Bush, and Barack Obama. Of those, I'd say the Roosevelts were good, Jack Kennedy and Obama were decent, John Adams was good enough except for the Alien and Sedition Acts, George W Bush was an idiot, and Hayes was an evil bastard who should never have gotten into office in the first place.
Yale - William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, George W Bush. Of those, Taft and Bush Sr did OK-ish, Ford committed the unforgivable sin of putting the president above the law, and George W Bush was (as previously mentioned) an idiot.
Princeton - James Madison, Woodrow Wilson. Madison has the distinction of being the only US president to lose control of Washington DC, and Wilson was good in some ways but was unable to prevent US involvement in WWI. Not a great record.
Columbia - Barack Obama. Already covered.
Penn - William Henry Harrison (never graduated). Died before he could do anything as president.
Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth - nobody yet.
However, according to my Harvard undergrad sister, a large number of the undergraduates end up doing business consulting, which basically involves getting paid big bucks to fly around the country living out of a suitcase giving Powerpoint presentations on subjects they may or may not know anything about.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:34PM
All the downmods on your post prove exactly who the real snowflakes are.