counterpunch on 'class'

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  • September 19, 2017 at 8:12 pm #74567
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    link:https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/13/beyond-the-class-ceiling-education-and-upward-social-mobility/

    “….By the way, contrary to what’s being pushed on the rest of the unsuspecting population, the upper-class fully appreciates the value of a Liberal Arts education (i.e. of arts and language as cultural capital) – up to a point, naturally! These kids know, often from an early age, that the game is rigged in their favor and that there is no meritocracy, and therefore that “the system” (e.g. Calvinist ideology) is on some level a lie to be used but not to be believed, which is why they are typically cynical, often crassly so (see Jared Kushner’s – President Trump’s son-in-law’s – entrance essay to Harvard, leaked in The New Yorker)….”

    September 19, 2017 at 8:21 pm #74568
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    link:http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/a9449/harvard-alum-letter-jared-kushner/
    “…Kushner is an alumnus of the Ivy League school, though his qualifications to attend the institution have been called into question, most famously by Daniel L. Golden’s book The Price of Admissions: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. Kushner’s father Charles pledged 2.5 million to Harvard, in 1998. Jared enrolled in the Ivy League school in 1999….”

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