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In a shift from a mere couple of years ago, when a majority of Republican-Americans thought that higher education was a good thing, the majority of them now believe the opposite.
A Pew Research Center survey published Monday revealed voters have grown apart in their support of secondary education since the 2016 presidential election season, when a majority of Democratic and Republican Americans agreed the nation’s universities serve as a benefit for the U.S. Whereas 54 percent of Republicans said "colleges and universities had a positive impact on the way things were going in the country" in 2015, the majority now believe the opposite, with 58 percent saying such institutions negatively impact the state of the union.
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Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @07:06AM (6 children)
You know, I am starting to understand this. If you are incapable of understanding ideas, and evaluating them for yourself and adopting them on their own merits, it may seem like there is some vast left-wing conspiracy attempting to compel you into group-think. Of course, this is not what is going on at all, it is just that you are conservative and not intelligent enough to understand the principles in question. But it is nice that all of us that do can now have some insight into your experience, although there is still really nothing we can do about it.
As Momma said, Jesus can forgive your sins. Cain't do much about stupid, though.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @09:03AM (2 children)
Disprovable and failing Keynesian economic principles? Easily disprovable victimhood and oppression narratives? The gender "pay gap" myth that is endlessly repeated despite the fact it cannot be accounted for by illegal wage discrimination? The idea that there are more than two genders and that the best way to treat mental illness is to encourage and enable it? That there's some patriarchal conspiracy by "white males"? And the big "principle" that when called out on complete bullshit, the bullshitters simply avoid the argument and resort to calling the callee "stupid"?
Pffft!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 11 2017, @09:34AM
Yep, everything you said, and therefore you, stupid. Not true? Unverified by actual research. Wrong. Mean, in the words of the Boy-Emperor himself. Republican. Anti-intellectual, and therefore unintellectual. So, got anything else? Hey, what about moon-landings, vaccines, and con, I mean chem-trails? Don't you just love the smell of Alex Jones in the morning? (And you wonder why no one takes your opinion of higher education seriously!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @06:46PM
Happened, safe and bogus. Don't worry about addressing the other issues though because you know they're bullshit and you know they're being taught as fact in colleges.
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday July 11 2017, @12:26PM (1 child)
Its more about holiness signalling than intelligence. Rational thought never enters the picture. Calling a group low intelligence is just an insult, its not the point. If calling them the N-word were an acceptable insult, they'd call em that.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 11 2017, @02:16PM
"If calling them the N-word were an acceptable insult, they'd call em that."
New Yorkers? FFS, man, if you mean to call someone a New Yorker, just come out and say it. Stop beating around the bush. And, yes, those damned New Yorkers have been getting uppity, ever since 9/11/01. I agree, it's time to put them in their place!
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:32PM
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
--Isaac Asimov