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J. D. Vance: “Unless we make education...more of a meritocracy...the…”

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… certain parts it's a four or five hour drive from Washington D.C. and so I think one of the fundamental things that has to change, I don't know about the … Unless we make education...more of a meritocracy...the system is fundamentally doomed. … racial discrimination, particularly against middle class white kids in the American education context is not just the moral part of it. Okay? The moral part of it I care a lot about. (33:52–34:07)

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Asserts that the American education system is doomed unless it becomes more meritocratic.

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