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'Ivy League has LOST its mind': Mike Rowe calls out elite Ivy League schools as only he can and BOOM
Twitchy.com ^ | 4/23/2024 | Sam J.

Posted on 04/25/2024 7:27:14 PM PDT by NetAddicted

Mike Rowe gets it.

And he always has.

Unlike far too many Americans, he understands the value of hard work and why more of us (especially young people getting ready to go to college or already in college) need to do more of it. Especially right now as we're watching schools like Columbia, Yale, Barnard, and others eating themselves with the pro-Palestine/Hamas riots.

Protests.

Whatever.

They say tomato ... they're wrong.

Take a look at this from Rowe:

For a guy who runs a foundation that sends young people to trade schools all over America – trade schools where I’m pleased to report, no one is calling for the extermination of Jews – today’s headlines are once again offering another excellent reason to consider redirecting…

— The Real Mike Rowe (@mikeroweworks) April 22, 2024

Trade schools where they're not calling for the extermination of Jews.

Crazy, right?

His post continues:

... today’s headlines are once again offering another excellent reason to consider redirecting whatever financial support you might earmark for the Ivy League, to the mikeroweWORKS Foundation. Why? Because the Ivy League has truly lost its mind.

Consider the latest madness at Columbia University, where the president, Minochuhe Shafik, has announced a new round of remote learning - effective immediately - in response to a noisy rabble of thugs and bullies calling for the eradication of Israel.If I had a kid at Columbia, I’d be livid. It’s simply mind-boggling that the president of this university would rather consign her students to another crucible of remote learning, than permanently expel the protesters. I mean, seriously, what does it take to get expelled from Columbia? These creeps are on camera, literally screaming into the faces of Jewish students.

“They yelled at us to go back to Poland, said we have no culture, and chanted, ‘Strike, strike Tel Aviv,” said one terrified student. Followed by, “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground,” “Go Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets, too.”

In a now-infamous image, one demonstrator appeared before a group of counter-protesters holding Israeli and American flags with a sign pointing in their direction that read, “Al-Qasam’s next targets.”That’s what you get for $68,000 a year at Columbia – an administration who cowers in the face of thugs and bullies, and a university president who would rather make your kids try to learn off campus, than take a truly hard line with those students calling for the murder of Jews. For the love of God, expel them. Calling for murder is not protected speech.In the meantime, mikeroweWORKS is accepting applications for our next round of work ethic scholarships. Deadline is the end of the month. It’s worth noting that the careers we’re training people for cannot be taught, or preformed, remotely. It’s also worth mentioning that we accept donations year-round and spend the money we take in with great discretion. You can apply for a scholarship, or donate, at http://mikeroweWORKS.org.

We do not usually include links to sites where you can donate BUT we'll make an exception here.

On point, and possibly your best pitch for funding EVER! I wouldn't hire an Ivy League graduates to wash my car.

— Robert Armstrong (@RobTheBiker53) April 22, 2024

These Ivy League schools have done so much damage to themselves it may take a generation to fix it.

If they can fix it.

Run for President, Mike.

— DC 🇺🇸 (@CombatEngDC) April 22, 2024

We WISH.

Thank you, Mike.

A tree contractor dropped by my house this week. He's 21 and a co-owner, drove a nice truck, clean, smiling, well spoken, a go-getter. Had I needed his service, I'd have hired him.

We need fewer Talkers and more Doers.

This is the Way.

— LifeIsSimple (@LifeIsSimple123) April 23, 2024

Fewer talkers and more doers.

Like the sound of that.

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I loved this. Unfortunately, took me a few days to get around to posting it.
1 posted on 04/25/2024 7:27:14 PM PDT by NetAddicted
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To: NetAddicted

Thanks for posting it.


2 posted on 04/25/2024 7:30:25 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

:)


3 posted on 04/25/2024 7:31:23 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: laplata

4 posted on 04/25/2024 7:34:06 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: NetAddicted

I got in a argument with a lady with a Masters degree in racial studies from UCLA. She said you couldn’t be racist against white people. All the proof I needed to see to know that current college degrees are worthless.


5 posted on 04/25/2024 7:38:27 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: NetAddicted

Indeed, I see the present Ivy League admins vs. Woke Hamas red guards as Stalin vs. Trotsky. The left eating itself.

Is there a way to ensure they both lose?


6 posted on 04/25/2024 7:49:05 PM PDT by PGR88
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She said you couldn’t be racist against white people.

In the group-think-bubbles of modern American academia, they literally never see another point of view. They are like trained seals - they get rewards when they repeat the sounds and actions taught to them.

7 posted on 04/25/2024 7:51:02 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: NetAddicted

IMO if you support terrorists you are with the terrorists.
If you are with the terrorists you are a terrorist.

The appropriate measures should be applied.


8 posted on 04/25/2024 7:53:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Dick Bachert

Thank you. I’m familiar with the Frankfort School and I appreciate it. Their plan worked better than their expectations.


9 posted on 04/25/2024 7:54:01 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Happy to be of service. Please share so perhaps we can stop this INSANITY!


10 posted on 04/25/2024 7:55:47 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: NetAddicted

The morons attending our Ivy League schools are doing everything they can to destroy the Ivy brand and devalue the worth of their expensive and already increasingly worthless diplomas

Anyone who would hire one of these losers deserves what they get


11 posted on 04/25/2024 8:04:18 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: jimpick
All the proof I needed to see to know that current college degrees are worthless.

Current Ivy league degrees are harmful and detrimental to the mental health and maturity necessary to become an educated and sane individual.

12 posted on 04/25/2024 8:07:33 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was off the ping list.)
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To: NetAddicted

Well thanks. I’m just a trade-school guy.(instrumentation/ robotics) Never really used it other than sweating my balls off. I worked in post refined fuel systems for 30 years.

Thanks.


13 posted on 04/25/2024 8:07:51 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: Dick Bachert

It’s appreciated. I just copied and pasted it and sent it out via email. I have a friend who is very knowledgeable of the Frankfort School. He introduced it to me. Few people have even heard of it.

Regards-


14 posted on 04/25/2024 8:12:04 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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Their plan worked better than their expectations.“

It worked so well that pretty much every pubic facing institution is infested if not outright controlled by leftist radicals. Even the medical and scientific institutions are hijacked.


15 posted on 04/25/2024 8:14:12 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: PGR88

Indeed, I see the present Ivy League admins vs. Woke Hamas red guards as Stalin vs. Trotsky. The left eating itself.

Is there a way to ensure they both lose?

><

Good post. With the state of things today, I can’t see how we beat them.....yet.


16 posted on 04/25/2024 8:15:02 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: NetAddicted
“They yelled at us to go back to Poland, said we have no culture, and chanted, ‘Strike, strike Tel Aviv,” said one terrified student. Followed by, “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground,” “Go Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets, too.”

In a now-infamous image, one demonstrator appeared before a group of counter-protesters holding Israeli and American flags with a sign pointing in their direction that read, “Al-Qasam’s next targets.”That’s what you get for $68,000 a year at Columbia – an administration who cowers in the face of thugs and bullies, and a university president who would rather make your kids try to learn off campus, than take a truly hard line with those students calling for the murder of Jews.

Since the president of Columbia is an Egyptian muslim, the reluctance to throw students who threaten to murder Jews off her campus could be due to her own vicious bald faced racism. Of course, her main loyalty is to the muslim Umma, the community of believers, rather than to any other grouping or State.

17 posted on 04/25/2024 8:15:07 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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The morons attending our Ivy League schools are doing everything they can to destroy the Ivy brand and devalue the worth of their expensive and already increasingly worthless diplomas

If the pro-Hamas types want to undermine the education of Jewish students in America, it is imperative to halt this abuse. Certainly a lot more effort from political and educational leaders is necessary to enable a return to decency.

However my point is that this is no longer the 1930’s where the only academic games in town are in North America and Europe. There are high quality international level Universities outside the West where students can do their studies or work on their doctorates. There are the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in India, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, some in China and elsewhere that are top tier.

The longer term point is that Jewish scholarship in the West has lead to 129 Nobel Prizes, plus technological leadership in many fields. Ill treatment in Western countries does not have to be tolerated. Sending excellent Jewish scholars (and non Jewish scholars) to the developing world can accelerate the shift in technological power to nations and peoples who might be more appreciative. And maybe the handful can turn into something larger where these countries will be safer places for communities that should avoid a West that is about to self destruct. As Jews are the canary in the coal mines, maybe other communities should also think about where to put down roots.

18 posted on 04/25/2024 8:21:49 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: PGR88

Actually during The Cultural Revolution in China, rival gangs of Red Guards would frequently fight each other.


19 posted on 04/25/2024 8:24:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gibsonguy

Yes, that is a fact. And they’ve put everything in place to protect themselves.


20 posted on 04/25/2024 8:27:21 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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