And yet they don't.

Liberals are not leftists. They are not egalitarians and they are not really for social equality.

Allowing universities legacy admissions is a position so far to the right that I don't think any political party anywhere outside of the US propagates for it. There isn't a social democrat in Denmark or something who has vaguely leftist view but who also believes that universities should admit people based on their parents having gone there.

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philwelch 6 days ago | parent [-]

If anyone really favored social equality they would support abolishing the elite universities entirely. Anything short of that still produces an identifiable class of people who attended these institutions, and it’s the existence of that class in the first place rather than its partly hereditary nature that runs counter to social equality.

	▲	impossiblefork 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Harvard-style elite universities, absolutely, and actual leftists do support abolishing them. CMU-style, or ETH-style or Independent University of Moscow-style elite universities are however probably an efficient use of resources.