Yeah, even overlooking the discrimination angle, they’re outright accusing the kid of fraud if that quote isn’t a paraphrase.
I’m going with
a) kids growing up that rich are just used to being “special” and sometimes not thinking things through.
or
b) kids being kids and celebrities and/or wanna-be celebrities at the time are so concentrated on themselves that something their parents are doing can be beyond notice.
But either way I believe it could, and did, happen.
As for the photoshopped pictures ------- way back when I posed for a joke picture for a friend who was on the yearbook staff. It made the yearbook. To this day some classmates aren’t sure if it was real or what. Again, we can all be strange when we are young.
I think it would be quite possible to conceal the extent of the fraud from her daughter. In fact, I think it was probably extraordinarily prudent to actively conceal it: this is a major crime, a potentially going-to-jail crime. From what we know of the daughter, she doesn’t seem to be the person you’d want to trust with a “could send me to jail” secret.
Yeah, but I don’t think Mom ever even thought of it as a crime. I think she still doesn’t. Total lack of comprehension, like your flower pot suddenly growing wings and flying away. That her family should actually be treated like, well, everybody else is just so far beyond the pale that it never entered what passes for any of their minds.
It’s true, but if she had any inkling at all that it might not be cool with the rest of hte world, I can see not trusting the daughter not to put it on her Instagram.
And she must have done or she wouldn’t have hired these people.
The average kid might have spotted what was going on. But most of these kids were not very bright, were very over-privileged, and used to having things done for them. That’s partly why they needed the help to begin with.
Even intelligent people can have a sheltered life that leaves them ill-prepared for the real world. Physicist Murray Gel-Mann came from a super-rich family, and nearly panicked the first time there wasn’t someone else to butter his toast for him. He finally tried it himself, and discovered it wasn’t actually hard to do.
Today Olivia Jade flipped the world the bird on Instagram. Both hands, while specifically referencing the media.
Throw the whole family in jail and lose the keys.
I can easily imagine many of these kids not realizing. Even if they had to join a sports team, that’s just another string pulled for them by their powerful parents, and most of the ways that the rich employ nepotism aren’t illegal, so it’s not obvious that they’d suspect anything more than “mom and dad are powerful people and made this happen for me”.
If they’d been even richer and had donated a building and shaken the hand of the university president, then this kind of thing likely wouldn’t have been illegal. I can’t imagine the average 19-year-old can parse the difference between those two cases if their parents don’t specifically let them in on it.
Also, silenus I think it’s abhorrent to suggest that we should punish Ms. Jade for being an uppity internet-famous person without any evidence that she did something illegal. Telling the world or the media to fuck off is her every right.
Feed her and her ilk to the jackals, then. Or grind them into Soylent Puce. This society needs a revolution and the 1% need to hear the tumbrels.
Come the Revolution, comrade…
