And this one is in Tennessee……
Closing Thought–18Sep19
Kinda humorous how getting an education is somehow the wrong thing to do because it will make you a “Liberal”……..so does that mean that ignorance is better than knowledge?
What made me write this post is a piece I read about some moron in Tennessee, a senator no less, ……….
A Republican Tennessee lawmaker says he supports getting rid of higher education because he argues it would cut off the “liberal breeding ground.”
Sen. Kerry Roberts of Springfield called for eliminating higher education while speaking about attending a recent abortion legislative hearing on his conservative radio talk show on Sept. 2.
Roberts specifically called out one activist who testified in favor of protecting abortion rights. He asserted without evidence that the woman’s beliefs were a “product of higher education” and claimed that getting rid of higher education would “save America.”
The senator did not immediately respond to a request for further elaboration.
Roberts also questioned funding higher education with tax dollars. He voted in favor of the state’s $38.5 billion budget earlier this year, which included money for colleges and universities.
(newschannel5.com)
Another mental midget that thinks education is a waste of funds and a bad thing for the people…that is everyone but him and his…..
I wrote about “those liberal professors” before……
Please defend this moron…..please.
“Lego Ergo Scribo”
Yeah, get rid of higher education. Keep the people ignorant, and therefore compliant.
A classic Right-Wing tactic.
Best wishes, Pete.
THat is the plan of the GOP…..just look at the state of education now…..chuq
Is this where I point to Piketty’s critique of the Brahmin Left and the move of left wing politics from workers to higher education, and how the meeting of right and left elites leaves out large swathes of the population, who then end of voting for authoritarian populists like Trump?
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018PoliticalConflict.pdf
Thanx for the link…..good paper…..and yes this is where we are today with the Dems chuq
I really wonder how someone with those opinions becomes senator.
He tried to defuse his statement a bit but wasn’t very succesfull in my opinion.
Read and ‘weep’:
“While the call for eliminating higher education was clearly hyperbole, I stand behind my general critique of liberal arts education in America one hundred percent. Many higher education institutions have unquestionably become liberal breeding grounds where radical values and hatred for America are fomented.
… Hostile learning and working environments are suddenly acceptable when the leftists are zealously doing their duty of quashing any dissent.
Repulsive stories abound of First Amendment rights abused, shamed or denied.
There are no safe spaces for conservatives on many campuses. It’s time for conservatives – whose taxpayer dollars significantly fund these institutions of higher education – to rise up and demand the restoration of balance in our halls of higher education.
… Do we literally need to abolish higher education in America?
Of course not.
There are institutions that have found balance and they are to be applauded.
But it’s time for lawmakers to question the efficacy of higher education in America, meaningless majors, liberal bias, and intolerance of traditional values and conservative points of view”
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pith-in-the-wind/article/21086162/good-grief-kerry-roberts-higher-learning-isnt-bad
Actually his thoughts are main stream in parts of the South….they want to keep the population lazy and stupid…easier to control chuq