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People are Trolling Her Kids

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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It's her and her husband who are to blame. Not their kids.

And the truth is, this is the whole bullshit system that the US, and indeed many other countries, are built upon: socioeconomic privilege dressed up as meritocracy.

Lori Loughlin's daughters do not deserve to be singled out and attacked for a dubious higher education system that many privileged people have benefited from. Besides, if you're going to attack the Loughlins for fake SAT scores and Personal Statements, you also need to attack the Legacy System that many politicians have particularly benefited from (i.e. 'your daddy/mommy attended this place so you get an automatic place over some kid who has genuinely worked to get into a good college').

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16535) 5 years ago

Agreed, it's bullshit the kids are being targeted. I think they're already embarrassed and ashamed because it makes them look like idiots.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Indeed.

And maybe they are, but then so are a lot of kids with less famous but similarly wealthy parents. So, on balance, I feel some sympathy for them.

[–] TMC-4 (19532) 5 years ago

Meet Olivia Jade: How the College Bribery Scam Exposes the Privilege of the Influencer Economy

http://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/meet-olivia-jade-how-the-college-bribery-scam-exposes-the-privilege-of-the-influencer-economy.php

[–] Fab4gal (444) 5 years ago

Yes, their parents were the master minds in this however, in July 2016, Loughlin and her husband agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team, despite the fact that both of these girls knew that they did not participate in crew, thereby facilitating their admission to USC. So I'm sorry but their daughters were in on the fact that they weren't on the crew team but got in because of it so their hands are not clean in this either...it was said that some of the kids knew what their parents were doing, some didn't...not the case here....

So Lori's daughters definitely had to know that they were being accepted into USC because the family went to great lengths to present the two girls as being something they clearly knew they were not...these girls are not blameless by any stretch...

Had this NOT been brought to light, they would still be continuing to perpetuate this lie about being on crew but they ALL got caught so now everyone is sorry....the question is are you sorry because you're sorry or are you sorry because you got caught?

[–] albertmar (93) 5 years ago

I view it as the daughter was doing whatever her mom told her to do. Of course if your parents tell you to do something, you just do it.

[–] Fab4gal (444) 5 years ago

Well I think the daughter was pretty much a willing participant...the perks were all there...who knows?

Looks like Lori has been fired from pretty much everything....I wonder if it was worth it?

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

May trolling on social media be the worst thing that ever happens to those lazy spoiled nitwits!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I think you're being a tad judgemental.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

That's what the internet is for!

Being able to say what you really feel, anonymously.

[–] Cuthbert (732) 5 years ago

I agree with you. One of the girls was on the super duper lux yacht owned by the USC chairman of the board when this scandal broke.

Be interesting to see her future unfold.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

I do hope she reacts by shunning publicity and knuckling down to hard work, instead of getting everything she wants through her parents' money and preening on social media.

What are the odds of that happening, a billion to one? A trillion?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Why do you give a ****?

How does this affect you?

All this outrage over the college admissions scandal strikes me as the most manufactured and absurd yet, which is saying something in today's outrage culture.

If anything, these girls have provided a service. Their parents' actions have shone a light on the elite college admissions sector and how fundamentally bogus these establishments and their claims to 'meritocracy' truly is. Hopefully, we will now see a wholesale disestablishment of such elite institutions. They are rotten to the core.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

This doesn't affect me directly, I don't have kids who were trying to get into a good college. But I am upset on behalf of the hard-working and honest kids who got squeezed out of a first-class education because some rich bastard bought a place at a top school for their little slacker, it's just another little bit of corruption and the erosion of our quality of life, another chip taken out of the dream of a meritocratic society.

I object to the 1% taking away everything that gives the rest of us a decent quality of life, and which gives the children of the 99% hope for the future. This is a minor issue, but people are outraged because it's part of a much larger problem.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

But how many kids, from any background, get into these elite institutions to begin with?

And do you think a system that favours legacies, that gives places to kids on the basis of large family endowments, and, speaking with respect to less obvious and egregious, but much more widespread and insidious, forms of academic privilege, favours kids who benefited from expensive private schooling and one-to-one tuition, is fair?

This latest scandal is but just the thin end of the wedge when it comes to systematic educational unfairness. By getting so outraged about this one, relatively small-scale, gaming of the system, we seem to be giving tacit approval to all the other more commonplace forms of systemic unfairness.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

Oh we all know that the elite private universities are extremely kind to the children of anyone who donates large amounts of money to the university, and that they're largely given over to the interests of the 1%. But some of the schools involved in this scandal are public schools, part of the University of California, and those are state-supported schools funded by members of the public like myself, and those colleges are supposed to be fair and meritocratic institutions that exist to give the hard-working children of ordinary people the top-quality education that they deserve.

I'm very upset that the California state schools are involved with this, and have sunk to the level of the corrupt Ivy League!! Hell, there's a University of California campus one mile away from my home, and now I'm wondering if any of my neighbors paid for their nice houses by taking bribes.

[–] Cuthbert (732) 5 years ago

I do hope she reacts by shunning publicity and knuckling down to hard work, instead of getting everything she wants through her parents' money and preening on social media.

Haha. Doubtful. She’s an Instagram influencer. Seems that’s what getting her into usc was all about. She markets herself as a student so she can push crap along those lines.

[–] Borat (658) 5 years ago

idk i think her daughter is cool as fuck and sexy as hell. who cares if they got into school without good grades. how many afro americans get affirmative actioned into school everyday? college is a scam and a joke anyways

[–] albertmar (93) 5 years ago

If college is a joke and you don't care how the girl got in, then you shouldn't care how ANY one gets in, even people with afros :-| Not caring because you personally find her sexy, really? I mean, if it was Shia Labeouf would you feel the same way? One day, she will be a raisin, what then? I also think it's ridiculous she was found on a yacht owned by the USC chairman when the scandal broke.

[–] Borat (658) 5 years ago

i dont care about afro americans getting affirmative action. i dont care about school at all. its just a big business scammmm. and yeah honestly i think shia lebuff is ight if he got affirmitive actioned into school i wouldnt care at all

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

There are two types of rich people: assholes who make me feel bad about myself, and assholes who don't make me feel bad about myself. Lori Loughlin's daughters belong to the latter category.

Bear in mind the increase in self-harming and suicide, partly as a result of all the smug wankers on social media touting their virtue and making the masses feel like we're unworthy.

To their credit, spoiled little rich princesses like Laughlin's daughters don't have that malign effect. In fact, they're just spoiled silly little rich girls, like Paris Hilton, who the rest of us can affectionately laugh at. In other words they're providing a service. They're making us feel better about ourselves and raising our self-esteem, hence less mental illness, and less self-harm and suicide.

[–] Borat (658) 5 years ago

i have no idea what you a blabberin about? suicide?? self-harm??? what?!?!?!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Fair enough Borat, but my message wasn't to you. It was albertmar.

I've responded to you elsewhere on this thread with a simpler message.

[–] Borat (658) 5 years ago

lol my bad i was a little confused

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

idk i think her daughter is cool as fuck and sexy as hell

For once you and I are in agreement Borat.

But bear in mind that a lot of this 'outrage' is affected sanctimony from people trying to tout their superior virtue by calling out other people's failings.

These girls have been exposed and embarrassed. I say, let them be instead of crucifying them.

And to show how consistent I am, I more or less said the same thing about Jussie Smollett (although his actions were arguably worse, since they were attributable to him, and his accomplices, alone, rather than his parents, and he could potentially have provoked racial tension), as well as Liam Neeson.

As a society we're far too quick to condemn these days. It's as if we think that by attacking others it will make us look better. Sorry guys, but that strategy doesn't work. Actions speak louder than words. If you want to be admired for your own virtue, work on it, rather than attacking other people's lack of virtue.

[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 5 years ago

you have a point