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Millennial Protesters Aren’t Well-Read
Accuracy in Academia ^
| February 28, 2016
| Malcolm A. Kline
Posted on 02/29/2016 10:43:02 AM PST by Academiadotorg
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A seasoned professor compares today's left-wing demonstrators to their predecessors in the 1960s, unfavorably.
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02/29/2016 10:44:06 AM PST
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rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Why the Baby Boomer radicals were successful and Occupy failed and BLM is flailing.
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"They know how to read but don't read."I'm not sure if he's saying the glass is half empty, or half full.
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02/29/2016 10:48:07 AM PST
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Rummyfan
(Let us now try liberty.)
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A lot of my college students couldn’t read to the end of a 140 character tweet.
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02/29/2016 10:48:21 AM PST
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billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
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Its much easier to read 140-character tweets and burn books than read books.
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You could always count on the hippies/commies protesting the government. But now they are the government.
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02/29/2016 10:53:18 AM PST
by
deadrock
(I is someone else.)
To: Rummyfan
"They know how to read but don't read." I'm not sure if he's saying the glass is half empty, or half full.
A pessimist says the glass is half empty. An optimist says the glass is half full. A feminist says the glass is being raped.
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"... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"
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02/29/2016 10:56:19 AM PST
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dfwgator
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I remember sthe “old” New Left as some of the most ignorant people I’d ever met and the ones who stayed Left stayed ignorant. Not saying the current crop aren’t worse, but it’s a pretty low bar.
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“This is a post-literacy generation,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at the Heritage Foundation. “They know how to read but don’t read.”
Or, to cut to the chase, “This is a generation of lazy dumb-asses. They should know how to think, but they choose not to do so.”
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02/29/2016 10:59:02 AM PST
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Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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I just assumed most all protesters in the US are not well read.
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02/29/2016 11:01:04 AM PST
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Marko413
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“Not saying the current crop arent worse, but its a pretty low bar.”
Don’t worry, the current crop will have no trouble getting under that Limbo bar.
http://imgur.com/gallery/CGPa3
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02/29/2016 11:05:30 AM PST
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Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Millennial Protesters Arent Well-Read Most can't read, courtesy of our education system and social promotions.
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02/29/2016 11:06:04 AM PST
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The Sons of Liberty
(My Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now!)
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A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
- Mark Twain
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02/29/2016 11:14:47 AM PST
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yuleeyahoo
( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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They figure they don’t need to read, so long as they snicker at the correct triggers.
I mentioned Calvin Coolidge to one millennial (and this is someone with a post graduate degree) and he reflexively giggled. But was nonplussed when I asked the reason. He couldn’t understand why I didn’t see the very mention of Coolidge as humor in and of itself.
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02/29/2016 11:14:55 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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He did not want to get mobbed on Facebook.
Social Media was invented by Liberals to herd the sheeple and beat down dissent.
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that’s why they hate it when we appear on it.
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It is not just the radical left that is ill educated, semi-illiterate and not capable of critical thinking. Form your own conclusions.
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02/29/2016 11:23:39 AM PST
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Pirate Ragnar
(Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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I heard a 40 year old idiot this morning on our local radio show spouting off for Bernie. He was clueless. Just kept saying, “he speaks for our generation”.
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