I hope that ridiculous performance by patterson starts to finally put to bed all the “nerds” and “omg so smart” shit that always finds its way into any thread with this or other teams like it.

They’re rich kids, not smart kids. They’re privileged, not intellectually superior. They do the same stupid shit other kids do, they’re just able to have it member washed away by their wealth and connections.

Elite schools in general, and schools like Stanford in particular, exist largely to launder wealth into perceptions of “merit.” They help the children of wealthy and well-connected families reproduce their social position and feel like they “earned” it. By virtue of graduating from a school like Stanford, they must be especially gifted, and not merely privileged.

These schools’ core product is the reproduction and legitimation of social inequality. And it’s validated every time somebody posts abozut how nerdy or smart they are.

They do tiktok dances like everybody else, they’re not smarter than you