@Exodius, “Perhaps someone will see this time why censuring this East Coast athletic conference (whether the claims are wrong or not is irrelevant to me) yet neglecting to critique every other college is stupid. No. The OP will scurry away, and no one will learn anything.”
Errr, not really sure what your point is. I don’t think anyone in this thread has made the point that LAC’s, or any of the many super selective schools in the US, are undeserving of vast and unwavering systematic criticism and reform efforts (particularly in light of the vast problems our country faces due to growing economic inequality). And if they had made that point, I would have been the first to vigorously argued against it.
I mean, maybe you have a point in arguing that directing criticism primarily towards the Ivy league simply serves to fetishize these schools further, but I don’t think so. If you’re going to criticize a large, centuries old, and seemingly intractable system, generally you start by pointing out those areas which are the most obvious.
It’s not that Ivy league schools are uniquely deserving of criticism, it’s typically just that they’re the most successful beneficiaries of a system that itself is very much deserving of criticism.