Don’t let it get you down if you were born a regular American and therefore miss out on the special favoritism bestowed upon luckier people to reward them for being oppressed. You too can join the privileged ranks of the “marginalized.” There is no need to announce that you indulge in sexual perversion or to lie about your ancestry. Just identify as disabled. Students at elite universities show us the way.

Via The Times:

A recent article in The Atlantic reported that an increasing number of students at elite universities were claiming they had disabilities to get benefits or exemptions, which can also include copies of lecture notes, excused absences and access to private testing rooms.

Other perks of pretending to be disabled include extra time on tests, exemptions from academic requirements, and the best housing.

At Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where competition for the best dorm rooms is fierce, this practice is particularly rife. The Atlantic reported that 38 percent of undergraduates at [Stanford] were registered as having a disability — that’s 2,850 students out of a class of 7,500 — and 24 per cent of undergrads received academic or housing accommodations in the fall quarter.

Other pricey liberal elite schools have yet to catch up:

At the Ivy League colleges Brown and Harvard, more than 20 per cent of undergrads are registered as disabled. Contrast these numbers with America’s community colleges, where only 3 to 4 per cent of students receive disability accommodations.

No wonder graduates of pricey schools think they are smarter than the rest of us.

The truth is, the system is there to be gamed, and most students feel that if you’re not gaming it, you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage.

The welfare state works the same way. Ask a Somali.

According to one student, “accommodations are so prevalent that they effectively only punish the honest.”

Punishing the honest sometimes seems to be a major objective of moonbattery.

On a tip from Franco.