Bring the Top Talent Not the Losers, Like Failed UCLA Med School

Is it shameful to strive for merit? Is it shameful to strive to be the best?

The problem today at UCLA is that merit and competition have been tossed aside in favor of "equity". Equality of outcomes instead of equality of opportunity rules the day at UCLA. It bases its choices on Marxist thought. UCAL Marxist equity aims for equality of outcomes, ruling in favor of groups based on overlapping, or “intersectional” oppressions – in diametric opposition to our treasured principle of equality, which aims for equality of rights for individuals.  

UCLA rehashes communism’s slogan, “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,”. Equity, demands that we confiscate and redistribute, all while employing discrimination to select the less meritorious, the stupider, and the lazy instead of the best, to achieve Marxist equity's ends.

Aside from that, you forget that formerly great UCLA built its reputation (and the department USC grabbed) on bloated gubment pensions and lavish spending from the golden age of California., before Marxist DEI began to destroy California fabric of growth, excellence and desirability. Sadly, California spent its money to educate Marxist fools at UCLA which then proceeded to destroy California's excellence.

So gathering the meritorious together with strength and competition at USC is just fine.

No shame in winning against Marxist enemies.

I say Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat

Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat, can be loosely translated from the Latin as “let whoever earns the palm bear it.” The expression reflects the broad significance of palms, palm fronds and other branches of foliage as symbols of triumph, victory, ascension and regeneration in ancient times, and in particular may allude to the Roman custom of giving the victorious gladiator a palm branch as reward for prowess.

UCLA sucks. Go collect your government check bruin scum and look back fondly to the 1980s when UCLA almost educated decently and was last relevant in football.

Great rant!

Glad you enjoyed it.

Please burn your ugly UCLA sweater now and stop giving the marxist salute.

Here's a quick reminder of where Marxism leads. Its one of the sets of events where communist killed 100 million.

By contrast, Soviet judicial killings—whether by shooting, forced starvation, or hard labor at forty degrees below zero—numbered in the tens of millions. Crucially, condemnation did not require individual guilt. As early as 1918, Solzhenitsyn points out, the Cheka (secret police) leader M. I. Latsis instructed revolutionary tribunals dispensing summary justice to disregard personal guilt or innocence and just ascertain the prisoner’s class origin: this “must determine the fate of the accused. That is the meaning of the Red Terror.”

On this basis, over five million peasants (classed as “kulaks,” supposedly better off than their neighbors) were forcibly exiled to completely unsettled wastelands with no food or tools, where they were left to die. The same punishment later befell whole nationalities deemed potentially disloyal (such as ethnic Germans, Chechens, and Crimean Tatars) or dangerous because of the possibility of receiving subversive support from a foreign power (as in the case of Koreans and Poles). “The liquidation of the kulaks as a class” was followed by the deliberate starvation of millions of peasants. All food for a large area of what is now Ukraine was requisitioned, and even fishing in the rivers was prohibited, so that over the next few months inhabitants starved to death. Idealistic young Bolsheviks from the capital enforced the famine. In total, Stalin’s war on the countryside claimed more than ten million lives. As Solzhenitsyn makes clear, this crime is not nearly as well known among intellectuals as the Great Purges, which claimed fewer victims, because many purge victims were themselves intellectuals.

Arrests also took place by quotas assigned to local secret-police offices, which, if they knew what was good for them, petitioned to arrest still more. After World War II, captured Russian soldiers i were promptly transferred to Russian slave labor camps, as was anyone who had seen something of the Western world. Even soldiers who had fought their way out of German encirclement were arrested as traitors, simply because they had been behind German lines. Still more shocking, the Allies—who could not imagine why people would not want to return to their homeland—forcibly repatriated, often at bayonet point, over a million fugitives, some of whom committed suicide rather than face what they knew awaited them.