I don't like college-educted people.

[Crepitus]

The main issue is what passes as education these days is a bastardization of true education.

Nah, the OP's main issue was that it was a woman. The college thing is just so he doesn't have to say it that way.

 

[0311]

I don’t like college educated people much and I will tell you why:

Don’t you just love college-educated people? Where would we be without them? I read Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell in 2009 and have never looked at scholarly leadership the same way since. Here is an example of educated incompetence I noticed that started a war, lead to the Arab spring, and eventually the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001:

April Glaspie, President George H. W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq, an eminently educated US diplomat traveled to Iraq in 1990 on a fact-finding mission to discover why Saddam Husein was massing troops along the border of Kuwait. Saddam was not an English-speaker, so he used interpreters in those meetings. You would think that a highly educated person like Glaspie would have taken that into account in a very important meeting like that. But Glaspie was not just an educated person, she was a box checking female or what would be referred to today as a sparkling early icon of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The highlight of the meeting was Glaspie uttering that “the US has no opinion on Arab/Arab affairs”, which Saddam took as a promise that the US would do nothing substantial other than diplomatic condemnation. Saddam promptly invaded Kuwait.

You do not have to be genius to see where that educated ineptitude led—the Gulf War, the Arab Spring, and 3,000 casualties in New York City. The real travesty was that Glaspie was not fired. She was promoted and given more responsibilities reserved for educated elites.

A lot of people are dead so educated elites can have great jobs, but I guess it is what it is.

That's alright dummy, they do not like you either.

 

[DGS49]

I think the object of the OP might be "highly educated people."

There is an axiomatic observation about education that goes pretty much as follows:

• When you go to high school, you learn a little bit about everything,
• When you go to college, you learn a lot about a broad area of study,
• When you get a master's degree, you learn a great deal about a very small aspect of that area,
• When you get a PhD you learn a huge amount about a tiny aspect of an area of study,
• In post-doc, you learn everything there is to know about nothing at all.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

There is a difference between specific training and and know-it-all education.

Do you have a degree? If so, in which area of study? If not then any particular reason you decided to forgo higher education?

 

[1srelluc]

Do you think they did that because in their educated opinion a menial mind like yours does undestand the world the way they do?

Well, at least I'm not retarded....The vile dems prove they are retarded, Every-Single-Day.

 

[fncceo]

In fact, I like me a lot!

I like myself so much, it amounts to a fetish.

 

[MarathonMike]

Don’t you just love college-educated people? Where would we be without them? I read Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell in 2009 and have never looked at scholarly leadership the same way since. Here is an example of educated incompetence I noticed that started a war, lead to the Arab spring, and eventually the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001:

That is classic broad brushing. Forty percent of US citizens hold at least a Bachelor's degree. The people that Thomas Sowell was referring to are political elites most of whom were 'educated' at Liberal universities and hold fluffy non technical degrees.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

That is classic broad brushing. Forty percent of US citizens hold at least a Bachelor's degree. The people that Thomas Sowell was referring to are political elites most of whom were 'educated' at Liberal universities and hold fluffy non technical degrees.

Thank you.

I would make a huge distinction between those in the sciences and those in Humanities. I realize it has been 50 years for me, but the science courses I took were devoid of political indoctrination whereas the humanities were all hard left.

 

[MarathonMike]

Thank you.

I would make a huge distinction between those in the sciences and those in Humanities. I realize it has been 50 years for me, but the science courses I took were devoid of political indoctrination whereas the humanities were all hard left.

Thanks, my degree was in Electrical Engineering and there was ZERO political content in those classes.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Thanks, my degree was in Electrical Engineering and there was ZERO political content in those classes.

This board is filled with completely uneducated leftists who look down their snotty little noses at those like you or I who have degrees in subjects they could not even begin to comprehend.

 

[martybegan]

The main issue is what passes as education these days is a bastardization of true education.

They are more of a credentialed class than an educated class. The right type of degree from the right school with the right political activities during said schooling.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Does your doctor have a degree or did you just meet him at the bar?

 

[martybegan]

Does your doctor have a degree or did you just meet him at the bar?

This isn't about professionals such as Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, etc. people who need their degree and further licensing to do their jobs.

This is about the political science, majors, the various complaint group "studies" majors, and other academic path degrees that don't actually answer the input demands of the workforce.

 

[Zincwarrior]

This isn't about professionals such as Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, etc. people who need their degree and further licensing to do their jobs.

This is about the political science, majors, the various complaint group "studies" majors, and other academic path degrees that don't actually answer the input demands of the workforce.

The OP was not that specific.

 

[martybegan]

The OP was not that specific.

The OP's direction of disdain can be deduced from the rest of what they wrote.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The OP's direction of disdain can be deduced from the rest of what they wrote.

Hardly.

 

[Unkotare]

So, looking down your nose at those looking down their nose? A nose loop?

 

[fncceo]

So, looking down your nose at those looking down their nose? A nose loop?

Infinite nose loop

 

[Dogmaphobe]

So, looking down your nose at those looking down their nose? A nose loop?

Or you could man up and reply to me directly, instead.

 

[Unkotare]

This board is filled with completely uneducated leftists who look down their snotty little noses at those like you or I who have degrees in subjects they could not even begin to comprehend.

So, you're looking down your snotty little nose?