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Here\u2019s the thing, this article<\/a> came up in my routine searches for #TRYHARDs to write about, about how Duke\u2019s acceptance rate has hit an all-time low, where only 3.67% of applicants get accepted.\u00a0 I mean, sports bias and perception bias on account of sports, aside, Duke is a fine educational institution, and the name holds a tremendous amount of weight in the world for those who have gone there, and graduated from the university.<\/span><\/p>\n But even outside of the world of sport, the Duke brand holds an abysmal reputation and is generally reviled by pretty much everyone except those people who have gone to Duke, graduated from Duke, or financially supported by someone who went to Duke.\u00a0 There\u2019s a general reputation that Duke is snooty, white-bred, arrogant, insufferable and all sorts of pejoratives meant to demean Duke, but it never really mattered, because all the people who are pro-Duke exist on some sort of weird island where nobody else seems to matter.<\/span><\/p>\n Which is why it seems so appropriate and fitting that Duke has seemingly decided to gatekeep to a new career high, accepting fewer students than they\u2019ve ever done, and I have to feel that such is probably surprising to absolutely nobody at all, considering their general reputation and the political climate that\u2019s emboldened racists to let their bigot flags fly high and proudly.<\/span><\/p>\n Why I decided to start a post about it is completely beyond me considering I don\u2019t really have much else to say about the topic, but in all honesty the reason I wanted to, was so I could post a screen grab of White Lotus S3, where the character Timothy Ratliff, played by Jason Isaacs is basically losing his marbles, but every time he goes into one of his suicidal fantasies, he\u2019s always wearing a t-shirt with a huge-ass DUKE wordmark on it.<\/span><\/p>\n After the last episode, I remarked to mythical wife that I\u2019m sure Duke is (facetiously) thrilled to see their school\u2019s name on the shirt of a criminal embezzler who is becoming suicidal, and as someone who enjoys seeing Duke fail in any capacity, it brings me great amusement to see it happening in the show.<\/span><\/p>\n And the funniest thing is that my hypothesis was proven correct when searching for an adequate screen grab to pair with this post, and Googling \u201cTim Ratliff White Lo-\u201c auto fills in the rest of \u201ctim ratliff white lotus duke shirt\u201d and all sorts of articles and spot-on screen caps of Tim Ratliff with a gun to his head with his DUKE shirt on are immediately returned, and there are numerous articles detailing the university\u2019s general displeasure at the show that a Duke man is both a criminal and suicidal.<\/span><\/p>\n But yeah, I\u2019m not surprised that Duke\u2019s not happy about it, because the Ratliff family is proudly North Carolinian, and boasts how dad is Duke, mom is UNC, eldest son is Duke, I don\u2019t remember which Piper went to, but how Lochte is still deciding between the two, but it\u2019s clear that those who were Dookies are clearly vapid unhinged white people, with one of them becoming suicidal.\u00a0 And I love the validation of my off-remark hypothesis.<\/span><\/p>\n So at this point, I have no choice but to continue on with making this post, because it succeeds at taking shots at Duke, as well as put over White Lotus as a show, because season 3 has been entertaining and has demonstrated HBO\u2019s ability to get something that isn\u2019t Game of Thrones or Games of Thrones-adjacent in order to anchor down that Sunday at 9 pm time slot.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s the thing, this article came up in my routine searches for #TRYHARDs to write about, about how Duke\u2019s acceptance rate has hit an all-time low, where only 3.67% of applicants get accepted.\u00a0 I mean, sports bias and perception bias on account of sports, aside, Duke is a fine 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