Posted on 11/09/2019 4:12:48 AM PST by gattaca
Said they deserve 'uncomfortable' lives
A UC Berkeley graduate student and instructor took to Twitter on Wednesday to vent about his repulsion for rural Americans and why they deserve to live "uncomfortable" lives.
Jackson Kernion, a graduate student who has taught at least 11 philosophy courses at the university, posted that he "unironically embrace[s] the bashing of rural Americans."
"They, as a group, are bad people who have made bad life decisions," he said in the since-deleted tweet. "Some, I assume, are good people. But this nostalgia for some imagined pastoral way of life is stupid and we should shame people who aren't pro-city."
According to Campus Reform, the Twitter thread started with Kernion advocating against affordable health care solutions for rural Americans, saying that "Rural Healthcare Should be expensive! And that expense should be borne by those who choose rural America!"
"Same goes for rural broadband. And gas taxes," he argued. "It should be uncomfortable to live in rural America. It should be uncomfortable to not move."
Evidently Kernion believes that rural living Americans are purposely rejecting the more "efficient" city-dwelling life, and thus should bear the consequences of more expense.
Though Kernion may have been intending to make economic arguments for his beliefs, his tweets had quickly devolved into ad hominem attacks on rural Americans.
After facing some backlash, Kernion did seem to apologize for his tone, which he says came across as "way crasser and meaner" than he believes himself to be.
Hmmmm, let’s see.... I have grass under my feet, and you have poop and heroin needles under yours.
Bad life choices? Might want to rethink your premise pal.
From his local Whole Foods store, of course.
Right about the special rural subsidies, but so wrong about the people.
And of course self-evidently a total jerk.
True, that!
An older co-worker once said to me: "When the rest of the world is nothing but white-collar workers, they'll pay good money to make sure their garbage is hauled away and their $%!# gets flushed."
Nailed it.
Pretty bad when a collage professor throws Henry David Thoreau under the bus....
He must have used a poster at an art gallery in Berkley for that picture..........bawwhaaa!!!!
What happens in Berkley should stay in Berkley..
The "population sink" writ large.
We live on a dead end road on a wooded hilly farm. Our closest neighbor is 3/4 mile away. Our town has 500 people.
We rarely lock our doors.
My niece who lives in the Washington DC hates our place.
When she stays with us she thinks of the movie “Last House on the Left” and other horror flicks. Won’t go out to her car at night to get her luggage thinking some canibalistic neighbor redneck is gonna grab her.
I told she has a 10000 times better chance of being attacked in DC than our property.
Breathtakingly ignorant. I am a life-long rural dweller (with an advanced degree, NOT in philosphy!) and I know people who can barely sign their names who are far more useful to the rest of the world than this ignoramus.
I bet this queer eats his fill of food that is grown in rural America....
The very fact that this over-educated moron thinks people live in rural areas to recapture some nostalgic "glory days" reeks of bubbled elitism. Most rural people live where they do BECAUSE IT'S WHERE THEY WORK!!!!
Maybe they're farmers or in some other agricultural industry. Maybe they live on ancestral lands they're not willing to give up for the filth and corruption of the city. Maybe they like clean air, expansive views, and independence.
They're not exactly trapped in Norman Rockwell's universe.
Nailed it. Pole smoker
Country folks are the best!
Bad English. It is not repulsion, it should be “revulsion”.
There are good things about rural areas and bad things about rural areas. People choose what is right for them.
In the burbs I have a fully staffed Fire Department two minutes away, in a rural area not so much.
In a rural area they have peace and quiet, where I live we have traffic.
I do agree with him about broadband. Broadband users in crowded places should not be on the hook to subsidize Broadband in less crowded places. If the government wants to play Santa Clause and subsidize rural Broadband, the money should come out of the general fund, that everyone has to pay into.
My father’s father stood in bread lines during the depression in New Haven, CT. My just about as poor mother’s parents had eggs, milk, vegetables and sometimes chicken on their small plot in rural Bethany, Connecticut 20 miles away.
I wonder if Mr. Pointy Headed Liberal ever thought that if rural America wanted his ass gone it could stop planting crops, stop raising live stock and it could very well starve him and his kind out.
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