• Prolefarian [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Remember when everyone found out that celebrities bribe institutions to treat their kids better?

    Yeah me either.

    https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/college-admissions-scandal-where-are-they-now/

    To be fair people were charged but it doesn't seem to have made anyone think "hmm maybe there are separate rules for rich people in this country"

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      2 years ago

      If some poor family offered literally anything to anyone to increase their chances of admission, everyone involved would be locked up for the rest of their lives with half the country calling for the death penalty.

      These guys just have to suck it up and stay in """jail""" for like a week and then say I'm sorry, paying a fine that amounts to what they earn in the time it takes them to take a shit.

      • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        They convicted a woman for lying about her zip code to get her kid into the better school in town.

        • Prolefarian [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Media is biased against women when it comes to these things for sure. If it were all males who were named we probably never would have heard about it.

          That changes nothing however, fuck these parasites stealing normal kids futures.

          edit: to be more clear I guess what makes me so heated about this compared to all the other BS is that it WAS widely reported in EVERY news outlet. "serious" and tabloid, but nobody really seemed to care.

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I think the thing is the target audience for news are people who share that same extreme anxiety to make sure their kids are able to launder money into merit and have a "respectable" place in society. So it's less of a don't care than a "i don't want to think about that because i would do the same" lol

      • Prolefarian [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        This is one of those situations where hard labor in the mines is almost entirely justified