RE: What is up with the disdain Republicans have towards educational institutes?
March 22, 2017 at 4:06 pm
It's been said very well by others so I won't babble for too long.
Trump and his ilk dislike education because they know educated people tend to be more independent and questioning than those with little or no higher education. It's how the religious institutions have tried, for centuries, to stop certain segments of society from getting educated, whether it be dark skinned people in slave and segregation era America, or women in other societies.
And the stereotypes are just a way of painting something they don't like, or understand, with the same brush, to justify their disdain. We've seen it throughout history and we're seeing it now.
Yes, we all stereotype groups. Some of it is mostly harmless: picturing Star Trek fans as a bunch of lonely virgins with no life or social skills (I do it, and I'm a Trekkie). Other kinds (I hate using that word - reminds me of creation-babble) are not harmless, as the stereotyping is used to justify hatred for a group.
Trump and his ilk dislike education because they know educated people tend to be more independent and questioning than those with little or no higher education. It's how the religious institutions have tried, for centuries, to stop certain segments of society from getting educated, whether it be dark skinned people in slave and segregation era America, or women in other societies.
And the stereotypes are just a way of painting something they don't like, or understand, with the same brush, to justify their disdain. We've seen it throughout history and we're seeing it now.
Yes, we all stereotype groups. Some of it is mostly harmless: picturing Star Trek fans as a bunch of lonely virgins with no life or social skills (I do it, and I'm a Trekkie). Other kinds (I hate using that word - reminds me of creation-babble) are not harmless, as the stereotyping is used to justify hatred for a group.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
