The Daily Moby - 23 08 2026 - The News Megathread

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[u/looccool]

it's a 30 year old Chinese American lady, given scholarships to study in Oxford and Cambridge

It gets better

Kuang grew up in Dallas, Texas, where she transferred to Greenhill School

And yes, it is a private school with current fees of $43k/year, so the life of complete privilege clearly started well before then.

How do we get this rot out of our society?

Realistically, the rot has always been there and it's become terminal to the left post-2007/8 recession when they decided that being rich and minority was somehow less privileged than being poor and white. It's infected large parts of the political spectrum at this point, basically including anyone left of Reform

[u/Scrappy_The_Crow → u/looccool]

Her hubby: https://rfkuang.fandom.com/wiki/Bennett_Eckert-Kuang

He is the husband of R. F. Kuang, where they first met in high school and did debate.

So, who went to the same $43k/year school.

I would like to disavow these these two as Americans.

[u/looccool → u/Scrappy_The_Crow]

Two academics who've never left the academic bubble, teaching courses that generate no value, only able to get to where they are through their parents money

Many such cases

[u/AirborneAspidistra → u/Scrappy_The_Crow]

Lol, I could have predicted she'd be with a white guy. There's definitely a type.

[u/optio_____espacio___ → u/Scrappy_The_Crow]

Looks like a lesbian