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Much of today’s intelligentsia cannot think
Washington Post ^ | June 26, 2020 | George Will

Posted on 06/27/2020 2:11:11 PM PDT by karpov

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To: karpov

George Will needs to look in the mirror.

He himself is the intelligentsia in the article.


21 posted on 06/27/2020 2:51:30 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: USCG SimTech

These kids wouldn’t have lasted five minutes in 1980.


22 posted on 06/27/2020 3:08:10 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: rintintin

In 2016 he was sure that Hillary would win. If there had been a competition for the most vitriolic anti-Trump writing just before the 2016 election, he would have won first prize.


23 posted on 06/27/2020 3:08:48 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Hildy

You underestimate your fellow Americans.


24 posted on 06/27/2020 3:10:57 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Varda

Finally.
For a while there I thought there were no mirrors in George Will’s residences.


25 posted on 06/27/2020 3:11:56 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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To: oldbill

That gave me a good idea. Let’s set up a bunch of statues of George Will and take turns tearing them down. For that matter, let’s go big and tear down some statues of President Big Ears. Over and over and over . . . .


26 posted on 06/27/2020 3:13:10 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: Hildy

Amen


27 posted on 06/27/2020 3:16:39 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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To: karpov

Did you get the inspiration for this George when you saw yourself in the mirror?


28 posted on 06/27/2020 3:22:39 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: rintintin; dfwgator

IIRC, Will got suspended/fired for helping prep Candidate Reagan for a debate against then-POTUS Carter.


29 posted on 06/27/2020 3:29:40 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: karpov

“””Faculty are outnumbered by administrators, many of whom exist to administer uniformity concerning “sustainability,” “diversity,” “toxic masculinity” and the threat free speech poses to favored groups’ entitlements to serenity.”””


No George, the faculty are willing co-conspirators.

As he is a bona fide member of the intelligentsia I am waiting for George Will to take on the faculty at our colleges and universities who are overwhelmingly leftist in their thinking.

When George Will starts raising hell and advocates defunding of our state run colleges and universities in order to get rid of leftist professors, then I will jump on his bandwagon.


30 posted on 06/27/2020 3:31:26 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: A strike

Reflection is the first part of repentance, hopefully.


31 posted on 06/27/2020 3:33:07 PM PDT by Varda
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To: karpov

George Will is writing about himself, but is too out of touch to realize it.


32 posted on 06/27/2020 3:48:11 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (In America 2.0, blacks are sacred and can do no wrong.)
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To: EagleUSA

The current definition of critical thinking is a line of thinking that ends in results matching The Narrative (tm).


33 posted on 06/27/2020 3:57:49 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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To: karpov

Well, at least George’s headline is really really right.


34 posted on 06/27/2020 4:00:52 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: lasereye

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

I started loosing respect for Georgie in 1994 or so when he made some pro NAFTA comment. It was something along the lines of “Well, the USA doesn’t need to make cars.”

It was a stunningly naïve and arrogant comment from a Washington insider who basically spouts hot air for a living.

The last straw was when he came out against Trump. He can go rot for all I care.


35 posted on 06/27/2020 4:22:13 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: karpov

Who put starch into George’s shorts?


36 posted on 06/27/2020 4:54:07 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: karpov

I think it was Bill Buckley who said he’d rather be governed by the first 500 people in the Boston phone directory than the faculty of Harvard University.


37 posted on 06/27/2020 5:04:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Laslo Fripp

We’ll see.


38 posted on 06/27/2020 5:13:41 PM PDT by Hildy (Don't get bitter, get better.)
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To: karpov

I told everyone, they don’t have a thinking cap...........


39 posted on 06/27/2020 5:15:47 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: EagleUSA

Hell!

Neither is Plain, Ordinary THINKING!!!


40 posted on 06/27/2020 6:56:17 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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