Posted on 12/03/2018 1:23:17 PM PST by a little elbow grease
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Peter Thiel is an optimist.
Standing before a room full of nearly 100 right-of-center student journalists on Friday night, he told the crowd “we are not on the losing side of history.”
But a “reformation” needs to happen first, the billionaire tech mogul and libertarian philanthropist said.
“Universities today are as corrupt as the Catholic Church of 500 years ago,” Thiel said.
During his speech, he spoke of an academia that has shut down debate, excommunicated conservative scholars, and insisted a college degree is the only way to “salvation,” that being a good job and solid future.
“The reformation is going to happen,” Thiel added, noting it won’t come from within, but from the “outside.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
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Paul Mapes:
"Thiel's analogy between the US education establish and the Catholic Church of the 16th Century is exactly right. The Church's vast and corrupt accumulation of wealth is what set the stage for Henry VIII's seizure of the monasteries and the rise of Protestantism in England. Let's hope that some day there's a similar revolution in the US."
LOVE YOU THIEL! FUTURE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.
Something’s got to happen.
Not that anyone cares:
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YES - just cut off the firehouse of government money and student debt-servitude, and the parasites of academia and their leftist ideology will die naturally.
Who cares? He’s rich and one of the few Silicon Valley guys on our side :)
Yeah he’s gay but he’s not up there talking in detail about his sexual exploits.
He’s talking about how INSANE colleges and the ENTIRE education system have become.
And I like an optimist, as long as he is a realist, and at least he knows there needs to be a “reformation”
Just stop the government funded/sponsored grants and loans. As soon as Uncle Sam’s pocket is available for picking, it will be picked and the academics clearly have lower morals and ethics than the average street panhandler.
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True.
Thank you for posting it.
Peter Thiel is a genius, I think he’s the most cerebral man I’ve encountered.
Look at the way men are accused of rape on campus these days —there is no due process at all.
It’s a lot like the Salem Witch Hunts:
“PROVE you’re innocent..!”
And we know just how scrupulously the Presstitues have followed those precepts (in negating them.)
And we know just how scrupulously the Presstitues have followed those precepts (in negating them.)
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Also: On October 15, 2016, Thiel announced a $1.25 million donation in support of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Thiel stated to The New York Times: "I didn't give him any money for a long time because I didn't think it mattered, and then the campaign asked me to."
Cool
“...than the average street walker.”
...and the left weaponized group think
the dysfunctions were supposed to be avoided not used as a weapon.
It doesn’t matter how rich he is.
$1.25m is still a lot of money to part with.
You have to believe in something you donate that much to.
My BIL is maybe worth 50 million and you couldn’t get him to make out a 200 charity check.
Sickens me...but I digress :)
Hard core leftists have wormed their way deep into just about every crevice and position of control in universities. They will not leave those positions willingly. The only way to get them out is to starve them out. Deny them funds. And open alternative colleges devoid of left-wing indoctrination.
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Yep......
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