Happily Dumb As A Bag Of Cunt Hair

[Minimalist]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/...=emaildkre

Republican voters turn against book learning as the party's enstupiding accelerates

Idiocracy, here we come.

[Foxaèr]

The only book they need is the buy-bull, and they don't even have to read it. They just have to go to church and have someone tell them about what's in it.

[TaraJo]

I've tried talking to some conservatives about this on facebook. Most of what they've told me is that they don't object to education itself, they object to "liberal indoctrination." I can understand, some of the radicals I've seen with Black Lives Matter and some of the anti-rape hysteria, there's something to at least talk about. So they might be onto something there.

But if you go a little deeper, they're objecting to scientific facts. Facts that teach things like the age of the earth, that global warming is real, that homosexuality and transsexuality can't be "cured."

[Chad32]

I've knows for a while that theists tend to dislike colleges, since college educated adults are harder to convert to religion, but it's sad that this is becoming a movement. And of course our current leader in education doesn't care for public schools, and wants to funnel money into private christian schools. It's a bad time for the country, and lack of education is not going to help things.

[Brian37]

I've tried talking to some conservatives about this on facebook.  Most of what they've told me is that they don't object to education itself, they object to "liberal indoctrination."  I can understand, some of the radicals I've seen with Black Lives Matter and some of the anti-rape hysteria, there's something to at least talk about.  So they might be onto something there.

But if you go a little deeper, they're objecting to scientific facts.  Facts that teach things like the age of the earth, that global warming is real, that homosexuality and transsexuality can't be "cured."

That's right. I have been warning my well intended liberal friends not to go too far with making demands on "never say". I knew that politically correct crap would come back to bite us in the ass. Now they are using "never say" against us.

That is their real agenda, to silence criticism of their claims to go back to a religious pecking order sanctioned by the government. 

The far right knows they are losing the argument so the only thing they have now is to use law to silence criticism of their interpretation of their religion.

[Thumpalumpacus]

It will become a vicious cycle unless it is stopped.

A banal observation, I know.

[Minimalist]

Never say that the fucking buy-bull is a science book.

I have no problem with that!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (58%) now say that colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country

So, about 6 out of 10 of these people will never hire a solicitor, a physician, a veterinarian, an engineer, a druggist, or anyone else from the countless professions where a university degree is a sine qua non? 


'Hully gee, I've got this cerebral aneurysm that's about to go all balloony, but bugger me if I'll get one of those uppity college types to look at it.  My neighbour's got this power drill, and his eyesight's pretty fair.  I'll let him have a go.'


Please.

Boru

[A Theist]

A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (58%) now say that colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country, up from 45% last year....

That's a 13-point change on the Republican side in just one year—and it happened after years of the number being fairly stable. Why? God only knows,

Maybe this is why you stupid fucker!










Universities are becoming no more than indoctrination centers and hot beds for violent leftist activism. What does burning down campuses, just because they don't like the speaker, have to do with science or the arts?

[The Grand Nudger]

What's the appropriate response to hate speech in the public square, A?  Stand at attention and sig heil, lol?

Why is it that the right wing loons seem to uniformly think that the proper response to a manufactured existential threat..like, say, islam..is bombs, unless it turns out that they are an -actual- existential threat...and then everyone is supposed to be real polite and hold the molotov throwing hand back? Strange birds, if you ask me. That's why I don't go to your fascist gatherings or engage with yall in eatnest on political topics IRL, I'd end up in prison.