Here's a sentence that may surprise many readers: "In general, the most politically intolerant Americans… tend to be whiter, more highly educated, older, more urban, and more partisan themselves."
That's according to a recent article in The Atlantic, which cites the results of a survey conducted by the polling firm PredictWise. The authors were interested in gauging political intolerance—where in the U.S. are people more likely to disassociate from members of the opposite political party?—and were able to assemble a county-by-county index of American intolerance based on poll results.
As I've said before, I've had to correct the spelling, grammar and format of one-page essays from people who held a Master's degree. A degree used to mean something positive. Nowadays, if you hold some degree in the liberal arts, it means you're most likely an indoctrinated hard-core Marxist unable to deal with the real world in any kind of meaningful way, with the added bonus that you don't hold any kind of marketable job skills. Oh, and you have tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt.
Yay, college.
Anyways, given that colleges and universities have been churning out good little Marxists for decades, is it any shock that people are now finding that "highly educated" whites are so intolerant? Yeah. Didn't think so.
Two years back I was involved in training some new starters at the company I worked for at the time. I explained that we offered a Welsh language service on request for customers. One recent graduate with a degree in something or other "studies" refused to believe there was such a language. He was actually Welsh himself. Others had not heard of the moon landings, the pyramids, Henry VIII, the first world war, or the partition of Ireland variously.
ReplyDeleteIgnorance of that level isn't natural. It's taught by people who hate us, and want to drag us down.
ReplyDeleteI'd say you're right. This must involve active suppression of knowledge and thought. A child would learn more about the world if it sat on a bus for six hours a day listening to random conversations than it would in a "school" either side of the pond.
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