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| 2014-02-05 |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #3 The divestment advocacy industry is composed almost entirely of academic lifers. Yeah, the whole cell block's lifers. Kinda like Cell Block D, where we put all the guys that Didn't Do It, Really. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-02-05 14:26 |
| #2 This is a great example to verbally beat up these pinheaded academics. This shows they are not out to help the people, they are instead all about punishing Israel . |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-02-05 10:47 |
| #1 The divestment advocacy industry is composed almost entirely of academic lifers. These are folks who believe that military spending is money that would be in their own paychecks - er, um, funding social justice and fairness - if it weren't going to the military. I've actually had one of these NPR-listening pseudointellectual "educators" try to tell me that 60% of federal government spending in the U.S. is for military purposes, and that if half of that were directed elsewhere we could solve ALL of our problems. (BTW, this individual teaches math in a public school.) Support for Israel is always taken as "military" spending by these types. These are also folks who believe that since they are educators and therefore obviously so very, very much smarter than everyone else that they should be the most highly paid people on the planet, and the fact that they are not is an indictment of capitalism and entrepreneurialism. A guy who makes millions running a business and employees who are well compensated assembling them? Not fair that those types get more money than awesome teachers. System has to go. Really, underneath it all these folks are motivated by envy, and more than that, it's the most evil type of envy - that sort of envy that pretends it is concern for "fairness" or "social justice" or "the needy". Yet, how many of them will be willing to discuss the "exploitation" of grad students and adjunct professors? How many of them will be willing to discuss the corrosive effects of tenure? How many will be willing to discuss the implications of the fact that after a certain point increasing money spent on education in general and teachers' salaries specifically has no measurable positive effect on education outcomes? A guy starts a business, brings people of disparate religions and cultures together, and turns a profit, and they demonize. Who are the true evil ones here? Is it any wonder |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-02-05 07:08 |