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Philosophy bro has decided that rural Americans ‘are bad people who have made bad life decisions’
Twitchy ^ | 11-07-2019 | Sarah D

Posted on 11/07/2019 1:35:28 PM PST by MNJohnnie

Every once in a while, it becomes necessary to make an exception to our “don’t spotlight randos” rule. This is one of those times.

Everyone, meet Jackson Kernion. According to his Twitter bio, he’s a “Philosophy PhD?” And his philosophy is evidently that rural Americans suck:

I unironically embrace the bashing of rural Americans. they, as a group, are bad people who have made bad life decisions. 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.

— Jackson Kernion 🌐 (@JacksonKernion) November 6, 2019

(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...


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KEYWORDS: academicbias; despotism; flyovercountry; rofl; ruralamerica
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So at least $50,000 in debt to get a "philosophy PhD" and they think OTHER PEOPLE made "bad life decisions"?
1 posted on 11/07/2019 1:35:28 PM PST by MNJohnnie
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To: MNJohnnie

Well, bless his heart.

hint: he would never understand that.


2 posted on 11/07/2019 1:39:42 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: MNJohnnie

Today’s PhD in Philosophy does not involve the study of thought throughout history. It includes only the intellectual sophistry of MIT based machine logic and its derivatives, none of which require reason.


3 posted on 11/07/2019 1:40:23 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: MNJohnnie

This asshole is the type of prick that would gladly Don an nkvd officers uniform to purge the kulaks of middle America. They don’t just want to defeat you politically they want you to suffer


4 posted on 11/07/2019 1:41:41 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: MNJohnnie

Many of us have seen his cities. Bums and derelicts everywhere. No plastic straws, but drug needles and human crap strewn all about. The gap between rich and poor is much greater than in rural America despite of or more likely because of their grand socialistic schemes.


5 posted on 11/07/2019 1:42:47 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Thanks for posting. Idiot, virtue signaling POS.


6 posted on 11/07/2019 1:42:56 PM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization)
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To: MNJohnnie

Are there more ghettos in the city or country?


7 posted on 11/07/2019 1:45:02 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: MNJohnnie

Heh, I consider myself to be a bit of a closet philosopher (I don’t wax philo here on FR) and I feel just the opposite. In fact, even though I grew up in the burbs and have lived in the city, I have had a growing desire of the last decade to acquire a nice rural tract of land, and perhaps not go fully off the grid and homestead, but pursue at least to pursue a higher degree of self-sufficiency. This is something that could easily appeal to any philosopher.


8 posted on 11/07/2019 1:45:39 PM PST by z3n
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To: MNJohnnie

Jackson needs to be taken on a snipe hunt or just a little hunting trip in general.


9 posted on 11/07/2019 1:48:29 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I wonder if he eats FOOD?? And should he be allowed to purchase Food Products from Rural America??


10 posted on 11/07/2019 1:49:47 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: MNJohnnie

So with a philosophy phd you do what for a living? Create other philosophy phds?

Bless his heart.


11 posted on 11/07/2019 1:49:55 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Vigilanteman

let’s listen to this nitwit and get rid of rural America - no more food for the cities, no soldiers for their neocon wars, no heartland to which the folks from the cities can retreat when the crime, excrement and failure of public services becomes too tough to tolerate, when the electricity is shut off to their high rise apartments so they have to walk up 50 flights of stairs in the heat (or ice cold) and beg for food, when criminals run riot and take what they want, when the public breakdown makes them prisoners in their own high rise tombs.


12 posted on 11/07/2019 1:49:56 PM PST by laconic
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To: MNJohnnie

Some ideas are so stupid only a, city domiciled, academic would hold them.


13 posted on 11/07/2019 1:51:15 PM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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Jackson Kernion should try growing his own darn food..he might learn sumtin....


14 posted on 11/07/2019 1:52:39 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: MNJohnnie

as rural america sits on their farms, stock piling crops and seeds, urban america watches the super market shelves quickly empty and ponders the life choices they have made...


15 posted on 11/07/2019 1:54:12 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I live is small-town America, and I can tell you there is some truth in what he said.

Much of small-town America is a moral wasteland.


16 posted on 11/07/2019 1:55:00 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: MNJohnnie

Kernion is a rural-phobe! He needs diversity training!


17 posted on 11/07/2019 1:55:53 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: MNJohnnie

Just to be clear, this is a personal opinion that has nothing to do with his day job:

“Dissonant Qualia: Why Phenomenal Kinds Must Have Matching Functional Kinds

“Dissonant qualia cases ask: are structure-distorting phenomenal quality transformations conceptually compatible with the same underlying functional architecture? At least some of them aren’t, and that shows that some phenomenal kinds (e.g. color experience, emotion, audition) conceptually necesitate matching functional kinds. (c.f. the structure-preserving transformations of inverted qualia cases.)


18 posted on 11/07/2019 1:56:38 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: MNJohnnie

A real philosopher would seek truth, which always manifests as simplicity. Lies are complex.
Rural leads to more truth than urban.

That’s just a fact


19 posted on 11/07/2019 1:56:43 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: mrmeyer

They don’t just want to defeat you politically they want you to suffer and die


20 posted on 11/07/2019 1:57:19 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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