It takes an intellectual to be deeply stupid.
Posted on 06/17/2004 3:14:02 PM PDT by rhema
"Are conservatives dumb? "
No.
I'm pretty sure that 2 + 2 = 4.
In fact, I'm absolutely sure that is so.
Does this mean I'm dumb?
A great line!
Or, Professors are students who failed to get a job. People who fail to find a job in the market place hate Capitolism. Ergo, Professors are failures who have a chip on their shoulder againsts capitolism.
Yes.
They're the enemies of freedom.
I loved this comment the first time I read it. The argument runs - we hire only smart people, which is why they're all Democrats. And the measure for smartness? Why, whether they're Democrats or not!
Logic this circular runs full-speed right up its own butt.
The key word here is available. The best and smartest people are not always (and I would go so far as to say never) available to academia. The best and smartest have gone into private enterprise to either make their fortune or find work much more enlightening and personally enriching than that which could be found in a university professorship.
To put it in other words, universities hire liberals 'cause that's the best they can get.
Well, when Mill said it, "conservative" meant royalist, statist, rejecting the values of the French/American revolutions... sounds more like the neo-liberals.
If professors weren't tenured, we would have a better idea if they were actually "worth" employing as teachers. If they really were as smart as they claim, why would they need a safety net?
Aren't we a nation of dumbies?!
It takes an intellectual to be deeply stupid.
I've had enough experience with college professors to be able to say that they do not, in fact, always higher the smartest people.
One thing for certain, liberal are wrong. :^)
ABSOLUTIST!!!
I'd be bladdergasted, too.
Those who can't do, teach.
Those who can't teach, administrate.
If we follow the rules of logic (I know, that's a stretch for most liberals, but let's pretend thay can follow along), a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time.
With that thought in mind, let's look at the premise argued by this pompous moron:
There are no absolutes.
If you still don't see the logical problem with that statement, let me paraphrase a bit:
There are ABSOLUTELY
no absolutes.
For the liberals in the audience who still don't get it, the statement declaring the universal absence of absolutes is, itself, an absolute!
If the statement is true, then it denies its own existence. Therefore, since we are all looking at the statement (i.e., it exists) the statement MUST be false.
If the statement is false, then its opposite MUST be true: There ARE absolutes!
Sorry, Professor Dumba$$ - Here's your sign...
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