alt Hacker NewsA WASP ethical framework cannot survive either the extirpation of WASPs from the student body or the transformation of the education system into a high stakes mandarin style death struggle.
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shimman • yesterday at 9:03 PM
This class form of racism always gets a chuckle out of me. Want to trade skull calipers?
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pickleRick243 • yesterday at 9:36 PM
WASPs in this day and age are no more immune to "high stakes mandarin style death struggles".
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Analemma_ • yesterday at 9:07 PM
Sorry, can you state your hypothesis clearly here? You are saying Princeton would not need to make this change if it admitted only white Anglo-Saxon Protestants?
regnull • yesterday at 9:16 PM
What?
A "WASP ethical framework" is barely a thing, if at all. The Princeton founders were motivated by moral obligations derived from a particular subset of Protestant Christianity. They were dissenters from the Anglican establishment, so it feels weird to try to bunch them in under the "WASP" umbrella. I have no idea if people who wrote the honor code were Calvinists too, but that was the seed ideology. It's not something that generic "WASP culture" gets to claim absent from the foundational theology. I'd wager that most WASPs at Princeton today do not share genuine belief in those foundations, if they don't cheat it's only because of social pressure, which tends not to hold up as well under pressure.