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Ken WhiteApropos of absolutely nothing, a reminder of JFK’s successful Harvard application essay
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TotallyObvious 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸@Popehat holy shit, my mother would have backhanded me if I tried to do something like that on a college app.
Corey Rayburn Yung@Popehat But we should not oppose such legacy admissions b/c they apply equally to the Black and white members of the Kennedy clan.
@Popehat That argument would seem to be so obviously without merit that no one would take it seriously. And yet, it mirrors the asinine reasoning about the 14A used by Justice Scalia in his Lawrence v. Texas dissent:
Lotus Blossom@Popehat @coreyrayburnyung It is so disgusting that a SC justice wrote this, and recently. What a backwards, ignorant tool. 🤮
James M.@coreyrayburnyung this is perfect.
hybrid havocAlt text:
The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a “Harvard man” is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.
The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a “Harvard man” is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.
CoolBlenderKitten@hybridhavoc
Thank you for adding the text :)
Thank you for adding the text :)
jack the nonabrasive@Popehat apropos of nothing https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_the_Irish_Became_White/w7ztAAAAMAAJ?hl=en
How the Irish Became White
How The Irish Became Whitetells the story of how the Irish immigrant went from racially Oppressed to racial Oppressor, an American Story most of us haven't wanted to hear before. Utilizing newspaper chronicles, memoirs, biographies, and official accounts, Noel Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish in America used unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to help gain and secure their newly found place in the White Republic. How The Irish Became Whiteopens with the reactions of Irish America to the 1841 appeal made to them by Daniel O'Connell, "The Liberator," to join with anti-slavery forces in the new country. It then reviews the status of Catholics in Ireland and some of their ambiguous contacts with American race patterns after emigration. Ignatiev carefully explores and challenges the Irish tradition of labor protest and the Irish role in the wave of anti-Negro violence that swept the country in the 1830s and 1840s. In addition, How The Irish Became Whiteprovides a provocative recounting of the roles of northeastern urban politicians in the Irish triumph over nativism, which allowed for their entry into the "white race." This is the first book to focus not on how the Irish were assimilated but how they were assimilated as "whites." Ignatiev seeks out the roots of the well-known tension between Irish and African-Americans, and draws the connection between the embracing of white supremacy by the Irish and their "success" in America. How The Irish Became Whiteconvincingly explodes a number of the most powerful myths surrounding race in our society. This bold and necessary intervention should be required reading for anyone interested in the history, theory and politics of racial identity and race relations in the United States.
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TJ@Popehat History works in weird ways. As a case against legacy admissions: If not for that essay, the President opposing the overturning of affirmative action based in part on a Harvard lawsuit would have no one primarying him.
Michael Gemar@Popehat We choose to do this not because it is hard, but because it is easy.
Bread and Salt“Ask not what you can do for your college, but what your college can do for you.”
Elizabeth Loves DEI@Popehat, apropro of something.
Manuel Recount@Popehat Me me me... Wow that's a bad essay.
Steven Hugg
Alexandre Morin@Popehat so ChatGPT could also get in easier than any POC
[object Object]@Popehat An admission process this forward thinking is what sets Harvard apart. Despite the brief and uninformative essay, they saw the potential in this student, and knew he could someday win a Pulitzer Prize and become President of the United States.
Doug Orleans@objectObject @Popehat his reasons were several!
Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦@Popehat And that got him in? What if I’d said “I’ve always wanted to go to Harvard” - Would that be enough?
Ron DeSantis's BDE
Doug 🌈🇨🇦 
@SonofaGeorge @Popehat
It was the father part. I don't know why universities do that if talent skips a generation.
It was the father part. I don't know why universities do that if talent skips a generation.
Jenny Zehringer@Popehat whoa. Deep 🙄
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"I am Joseph Kennedy's son. Thank you."
"I am Joseph Kennedy's son. Thank you."
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@Popehat is that really the entirety of the essay?
Realworldrj@Popehat it sounds better with a Boston Brahmin accent
Nathan A. Stine@Popehat if only I had a kid they could write in their essay about wanting to be a "Wright State man."
JaneGray
Dr James J TeethWhen I was a kid in the late 70s Boston TV would run an ad for the JFK Presidential Library in which they ran the line “C his D.”
Marcus Sanford@Popehat that is a pretty pathetic essay.
Gojira1000@Popehat "Nice university yah got. Be a shame if it burned down. You do know who my dad is, yeah?"
PeachMcD@Popehat
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Gau@Popehat Has someone ever sued the Ivy League over legacy admission policies???
Probably be the best thing for education for that bullshit to end
Flaming Cheeto@Popehat 'ssalotta I's
Soon college/University admissions are going to be more like a job application and interview for nice jobs. Where "soft skills" and "nonverbals" tends to play a bigger role. Does the candidate fit the office culture? Can the candidate work with people? Does the candidate have a supportive disposition? Or a disruptive personality? All the broad personality questions and nonverbal evaluations.
Fahri Reza 🍉Second generation young master saying they were "Harvard man" has a distinct feel to it than us mortals saying the same.
It has its own merits.
Fake it till you make it they say.
Seriously though isn't it normal for job applications to butter up the place you are going to apply to.
They won't accept admission if you didn't say a good word about them as if you only knew about them before you applied.
AJ@Popehat The power of family legacy. Good thing I have family legacy at Stanford! Lmao
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The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a "Harvard man" is an enviable distinction […]
April 23, 1935
John F. Kennedy
The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a "Harvard man" is an enviable distinction […]
April 23, 1935
John F. Kennedy
sneedy maccreedy@Popehat *chatbot write me an application essay that perfectly blends supreme confidence of success with zero fucks given for obviously not trying*
Mercurius Goldstein@Popehat
Deathless prose, a real head exploder.
Deathless prose, a real head exploder.
MollyNYCTangentially related:
#Harvard hired #ElizabethWarren because she was, at that time, a nationally recognized expert in bankruptcy law.
20 years later, #Trump and his cretins started with the “Pocahontas” crap, because they’re actually dumb enough to believe you can get an Ivy professorship simply by claiming to be part Native.
TransitBiker@Popehat I have very mixed feelings about JFK. However, this right here is infuriating as fuck.
Karawynn Long 🦊✍🏻🏳️🌈😷♿@Popehat
Are you sure this was written by JFK and not GPT?
Are you sure this was written by JFK and not GPT?
Chris A Dude"A Kennedy administration will go beyond making existing modalities available to all, to include low-cost alternative and holistic therapies that have been marginalized in a pharma-dominated system. We will move from a sick care system to a wellness society."- Direct quote from his website. Kennedy24.com
Looks like he plans to fund untested woo medicine and force it the healthcare system instead of fixing the real problem. Price fixing.
Tucker Lieberman"Then too, I—"
Chuck O'Rourke:verified:@Popehat it’d be interesting to know how many Irish/Irish-Americans catholics were at Harvard at the time.
And even more interesting to think about Joe’s treatment when he went. But he did get in!
Nazani@Popehat Shorter: Look up my dad. He's notorious/famous.
Oregon Wine Woman
Jeff B@Popehat Reminds me of Jared Kushner's essay (by Megan Amram in the New Yorker):
"Dear Harvard,
How are you? I hope you are well! My name is Jared Kushner, and I would like to go to you. As an example of how smart I am, here is some money."
Alexander KarnWriting for the “majority:”
“Then too, we would like to turn back the hands of time and re-entrench the racial and patriarchal and Christian hierarchies of a former time.”
loucovey@Popehat verbal fellatio