By Professor Doom
Ah, “The Ivy
League.” The phrase justifiably conjures up romanticized notions of the best
and brightest, the future shapers of the world. Now, I’ve had a few friends go
there, and even have a few colleagues working there, so my own notions are
stained with dark smears of “reality,” but the fact remains: throughout the
history of this country, our political leaders are quite commonly chosen from
Ivy League graduates, so it’s reasonable to believe that, yes, the people going
there today will be political factors in the decades to come.
A recent survey
of incoming Yale freshmen gives a nice snapshot of our political
leadership in the future. Yes, there are other Ivy League schools, but I assure
the gentle reader they all draw from the same pool of top candidates, and all
have very similar guidelines for who they accept…take Yale as a template for
what our leadership will look like in a few decades, and weep.
In terms of
racial demographics, 46% of new students are Caucasians, with 18% being Asians.
It’s so weird that anyone who stands up and says “America won’t be a white
country soon” is denounced as a Nazi RACIST, but it’s clear the Ivy League
understands simple mathematical reality, and is hedging their bets. Perhaps
this isn’t weep-worthy, but our top schools didn’t become top schools, and stay
such for centuries, by making bad decisions or failing to understand how the
world works.
Yale’s class
of 2022 is one of the most diverse in University history, with a record 47
percent of the class made up by U.S. citizens or permanent residents who
identify themselves as members of a minority ethnic or racial group, according
to public University figures.
Wait…more than
half of Yale’s incoming class aren’t citizens or permanent residents. The top
schools of this country feel that it’s no longer worth their while to spend
most of their time educating the citizens of this country. Still not worth a
weep? Perhaps I’m just misreading that. Let’s continue…
Female
respondents outnumbered male respondents by nearly 9 percentage points.
The above is
hardly restricted to the Ivy League, as many schools have a strong majority of
females to males in their student body. The difference of course is it’s clear
Yale believes that future political power in this country will be held by
females, particularly non-white females who aren’t citizens. Perhaps I’m just
worrying too much here?
Around
three-fourths of those surveyed identified as straight, while nearly 5 percent
identify as gay and just over 9 percent as bisexual or transsexual. Three
percent opted not to answer, and the remaining 8 percent identified as asexual,
ace spectrum or questioning their sexual orientation.
Now this is
disturbing. In the “normal” population, some 95% of the people are hetero; transsexuals
(more commonly called transgender today, and very different than bisexual,
incidentally) generally
run less than 1% of the population.
But at Yale,
typical heterosexuals are grossly under-represented, while the trans/bi
population is over represented by a
factor of 25. Where’s the outrage? Where’s the call to end this? Where are
the scholarships just for heterosexuals?
I could go on, but our future leaders, very likely to be
over-representing tiny sexual minorities, are, even if heterosexual, going to
leave Yale with a distorted view of just how common the various sexual
“protected classes” are.
An
overwhelming number of survey respondents said they felt extremely positive
about their high school experience: Slightly over 80 percent rated their last
four years as “good” or “very good.”
This is
interesting; I loathed my high school experience, mostly because attacks by
bullies were an every-other-day affair. Even without the constant fear and
harassment, I doubt I would have liked high school much.
Our future
leaders, however, think our school system is wonderful. Even though all data
says our schools are failing in ever more unprecedented ways, you can’t look at
the above and suspect for one moment our leaders will have even a tiny
inclination to change things. The system worked great for them, after all. And
so expect the next generation to be damned to the same public school system
that harmed most of this generation.
Still not
weeping? More, then:
Nearly
three-fourths of respondents identify as “very liberal” or “somewhat liberal.”
While just over 16 percent said they
were centrist, and almost 9 percent somewhat “conservative,” slightly less than
2 percent of respondents identified as “very conservative.”
One of the most
disturbing quirks of our supposed “two party” system is we have many “RINO”s,
Republicans-In-Name-Only, who are actually Democrats despite what it says on
the ballot. The takeaway? We don’t have enough conservatives in our country to
“man” the Republican party. Our Ivy League schools have around 5 times as
many transgender people as “very conservative” people.
How might that
affect the future of politics in this country?
Why do these
schools rant about how great they are at diversity, and then go out of their
way to have conservative representation far, far, below what it is in reality?
Why am I so alone in asking these types of questions?
I’m still
recovering, so a short essay for today but…it’s a puzzle why this publicly
available data can’t be used to make very reasonable projections about the
future of this country.
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