I’ve long felt these private Christian colleges function as the midpoint in the Homeschool-To-Reactionary-Wingnut pipeline.
If you grow up hearing Fox blaring from the TV at your grandparents’ house and Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan podcasts playing at home, school is the only place you’d ever hear a different point of view. It’s why rightwing parents who don’t homeschool are getting elected to school boards and banning books. Knowledge is the enemy, and could derail the successful propagation of mini-MAGAs.
Can't wait for the people here employed in Big Education's lefty socialist institutes to toss in their two rubles or yuan as the case may be.
In the mean time, occasionally I crack up over that part of conservative confession-by-projection in which they attribute to the left what they're actually doing. In the case here, the idea that our oligarchy is a leftist project, I mean, please. In this instance, I wonder (but don't really care) what pathology makes such a remark possible. Does the person pushing the point have any idea how profoundly full of shit they are? (Again: Don't care to know -- just asking the question, to coin a phrase.)
Too, also love the idea that the elite schools are much more than finishing schools for the elite's scion. Oh, sure, you can point to whatever you want to but given the decadent, simply stupid state of our leaders, one seriously has to wonder just how much educating the young scions actually are given.
"This is the kind of stuff Kitchen says is opening her mind at Hillsdale, but I submit that if you’re hearing stuff like this on the regular and haven’t packed up and left in disgust, open-mindedness was not what you were after."
"In my admissions interview for Hillsdale, I praised Christopher Hitchens—a staunch and unapologetic atheist — as one of my intellectual heroes.... And they wanted me anyway."
Remember how the People's Front for the Liberation of Judea vetted Brian when he applied for membership?
"How much do you hate the Romans?"
"I... I really hate them!"
"OK, you're in."
Brian could have told them that he entirely rejected the dietary code of Orthodox Judaism and it wouldn't have mattered. And it similarly didn't matter if Kitchen had unorthodox opinions in theology or mathematics; as long as Hillsdale heard the magic words, "I really hate the liberals," she was in.
Geez. It's as if a Rachel Maddow fan, hammered into liberal submission by facts and reason, discovers the radiant diversity of thought of Alex Jones. ("I did wonder for a moment where they got all those crisis actors to play dead but then I realized I'd been brainwashed by liberals to oppose child labor.")
It should come as no surprise that Hillsdale's president, Larry Arnn, an early Trump suck-up who's made sure that the place is a Trumpist incubator, was a co-founder of the Claremont Institute, currently a fascist freak farm promoting civil war.
John “Mary Roush” Lott and Roger Kimball, those two should be shouting from street corners at passing commuters. Also, I thought George Soros was Emmanuel Goldstein. Once again, the projection is the point.
Despite the tinsel Kitchen draped on it, Hillsdale College still sounds like nothing more than a reactionary a$$hole factory, that is, a dump that turns out brainwashed fanatics dedicated to making the good ol' USA ever more miserable. The woods are full of joints like this and I piss on them all.
I grew up about 10 mi from a Baptist College. The ladies all wore dresses and the young men wore slacks and a polo shirt. Everyone was white. A good friend of mine was dating a girl from there . I asked him" How's that working
out for you ?"
He said" "You'd be surprised."
Evidently private Baptist College is where a certain class of Rich Burgher sends their problem children to school. His girlfriend had blown the football team in High School. Every time I saw her she was drunk. She dropped out her sophomore year.
"Christopher Hitchens is a hero of mine, and yet this school of devout, reactionary Christian believers welcomed me. Can you believe it?"
"Oh, yeah? Well get this--I am, as you can see, a sheep. I was born and raised a sheep and identify to this day as a sheep. And yet an entire pack of wolves welcomed ME!"
A professor told her she should speak up more in class? Wow, that is remarkable. I don't imagine any professor anywhere other than Hillsdale has ever said such a thing.
As a now retired postal worker I do miss sending the Imprimis through the letter sorting machines. It is as large as allowed for letter mail, kinda floppy, and inevitably jammed up in the machine. I used no finesse yanking them out of the belts and spent time perusing the mangled ones, just for the yikes effect. I haven't seen that wingnut rag since last fall. Thanks for the update, Roy. 😉
And then there was that pesky scandal about extramarital sex and maybe murder? Sounds kinda biblical, so maybe it’s ok.
I’ve long felt these private Christian colleges function as the midpoint in the Homeschool-To-Reactionary-Wingnut pipeline.
If you grow up hearing Fox blaring from the TV at your grandparents’ house and Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan podcasts playing at home, school is the only place you’d ever hear a different point of view. It’s why rightwing parents who don’t homeschool are getting elected to school boards and banning books. Knowledge is the enemy, and could derail the successful propagation of mini-MAGAs.
" eschews federal funds so it can refuse to follow Title IX -"
Wonder how much tuition gets paid with Federal Student loan money?
Can't wait for the people here employed in Big Education's lefty socialist institutes to toss in their two rubles or yuan as the case may be.
In the mean time, occasionally I crack up over that part of conservative confession-by-projection in which they attribute to the left what they're actually doing. In the case here, the idea that our oligarchy is a leftist project, I mean, please. In this instance, I wonder (but don't really care) what pathology makes such a remark possible. Does the person pushing the point have any idea how profoundly full of shit they are? (Again: Don't care to know -- just asking the question, to coin a phrase.)
Too, also love the idea that the elite schools are much more than finishing schools for the elite's scion. Oh, sure, you can point to whatever you want to but given the decadent, simply stupid state of our leaders, one seriously has to wonder just how much educating the young scions actually are given.
"This is the kind of stuff Kitchen says is opening her mind at Hillsdale, but I submit that if you’re hearing stuff like this on the regular and haven’t packed up and left in disgust, open-mindedness was not what you were after."
Jane's Kitchen-Sink Logic
"In my admissions interview for Hillsdale, I praised Christopher Hitchens—a staunch and unapologetic atheist — as one of my intellectual heroes.... And they wanted me anyway."
Remember how the People's Front for the Liberation of Judea vetted Brian when he applied for membership?
"How much do you hate the Romans?"
"I... I really hate them!"
"OK, you're in."
Brian could have told them that he entirely rejected the dietary code of Orthodox Judaism and it wouldn't have mattered. And it similarly didn't matter if Kitchen had unorthodox opinions in theology or mathematics; as long as Hillsdale heard the magic words, "I really hate the liberals," she was in.
Geez. It's as if a Rachel Maddow fan, hammered into liberal submission by facts and reason, discovers the radiant diversity of thought of Alex Jones. ("I did wonder for a moment where they got all those crisis actors to play dead but then I realized I'd been brainwashed by liberals to oppose child labor.")
It should come as no surprise that Hillsdale's president, Larry Arnn, an early Trump suck-up who's made sure that the place is a Trumpist incubator, was a co-founder of the Claremont Institute, currently a fascist freak farm promoting civil war.
John “Mary Roush” Lott and Roger Kimball, those two should be shouting from street corners at passing commuters. Also, I thought George Soros was Emmanuel Goldstein. Once again, the projection is the point.
Despite the tinsel Kitchen draped on it, Hillsdale College still sounds like nothing more than a reactionary a$$hole factory, that is, a dump that turns out brainwashed fanatics dedicated to making the good ol' USA ever more miserable. The woods are full of joints like this and I piss on them all.
Was gonna say '2 marks for “Donald Trump is the Emmanuel Goldstein...of the movement”, but then I realized...
Damn. I feel bad* when somebody that anti-reason jots down something amusing enough to call attention to it...
*not really
I grew up about 10 mi from a Baptist College. The ladies all wore dresses and the young men wore slacks and a polo shirt. Everyone was white. A good friend of mine was dating a girl from there . I asked him" How's that working
out for you ?"
He said" "You'd be surprised."
Evidently private Baptist College is where a certain class of Rich Burgher sends their problem children to school. His girlfriend had blown the football team in High School. Every time I saw her she was drunk. She dropped out her sophomore year.
Figure Hillsdale draws upon the same demographic.
"Christopher Hitchens is a hero of mine, and yet this school of devout, reactionary Christian believers welcomed me. Can you believe it?"
"Oh, yeah? Well get this--I am, as you can see, a sheep. I was born and raised a sheep and identify to this day as a sheep. And yet an entire pack of wolves welcomed ME!"
A professor told her she should speak up more in class? Wow, that is remarkable. I don't imagine any professor anywhere other than Hillsdale has ever said such a thing.
I want to hear more about the curriculum. Is there a "Do Your Own Research 101" where students learn the value of YouTube videos as Primary Documents?
As a now retired postal worker I do miss sending the Imprimis through the letter sorting machines. It is as large as allowed for letter mail, kinda floppy, and inevitably jammed up in the machine. I used no finesse yanking them out of the belts and spent time perusing the mangled ones, just for the yikes effect. I haven't seen that wingnut rag since last fall. Thanks for the update, Roy. 😉
Has anyone done background on "Jane Kitchen"? Her piece has a processed flavor.