Shorter Lucy Caldwell

Speaking Truth to Test Scores, 10/7/08:

• Evidence clearly tells us that poor people are stupid. This means our meritocracy is working.

Above: Meritocracy.

I hate Harvard so much.

...Lucy Caldwell has written some egregious shit in her career, but this shit is among the most egregious of all. Go read it and you'll see what I mean. Her reasoning is just wrong -- anyone with any sense could tell Lucy Caldwell that poorer people get lower SAT scores because they have less access to quality education (not just test prep) and live in less intellectually hospitable environments. It is not, in fact, because they's just dumb. The level of innate elitism and perversity it must take for Caldwell to reach that conclusion -- the mind reels.

Why does the Crimson think it's acceptable to continually publish this tripe?

BONUS CRIMSON TRIPE: Read David Golding arguing, I am not making this up, that Democrats aren't going to win Virginia¹ because it's full of "inbred yokels," even though -- this is a direct quote -- "I've never actually met any Appalachian Virginians." And then Golding pronounces that the way to win these mythical yokels' votes is lunatic-libertarian "radically reduced federalism." Do these people listen to themselves when they talk?

1. Contra Golding, Pollster.com's estimate has Obama leading in Virginia by 2. But God forbid the Crimson should print, you know, facts.