And your Neville Longbottom types become the target of bullying if not outright violence, especially if they are female or otherwise marginalized in some way And the faculty *supports this*, they're separating the wheat from the chaff which is obviously desirable
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Replying to @patiencemosher @KaviMontanaro and
Ha ha remember how Neville's family was so worried he was a Squib his uncle threw him out the window so he'd be forced to instinctively use his magic to protect himself And the fact that "he bounced" is the punchline of this whole situation presented as a black comedy joke
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
the sort of insane prep some of the parents put their kids through for the entrance exam to that school really makes that land hard
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and
yeah one of my cohort was prepped for FIVE YEARS starting at the age of six and I'm sure some of the other parents would consider that lightweight
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Replying to @patiencemosher @life_minutiae and
They talked about how in the days of Imperial China with its notorious civil service examination system wealthy families would pick a child to be a prospective court official *from birth* and spend their *entire lives* on preparation for the big exam
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
And if you flunked it was a really big deal The equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars of investment down the drain And you'd have absolutely no useful life skills to pursue any other profession
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
People would try to take it over and over again, spending even more money fucking living at the capital waiting for the next one Everyone knew the "old men", the no-hopers, and thought of them as one of the particularly pitiful species of social losers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Right, and I mean fine, that's the ethos, it's awful but it's honest I guess What is absolutely infuriating is dressing up *that same ethos* in liberal platitudes about equality, compassion, inclusion etc.
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Replying to @patiencemosher @life_minutiae and
It's fun to think about these horrific stories about the bad old system that supposedly the May 4th Revolution (followed by the Communist Revolution) was supposed to banish into history forever BUT CHINESE PEOPLE ARE STILL JUST LIKE THIS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
There's some story from the 2000s about a girl took home a report card filled with Cs in the fourth grade, decided this meant she would never get into college, did the math and realized she could never pay back her parents for the cost of her education
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And, as a result, did the honorable thing and died by suicide
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