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Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice
The New York Times ^ | 02 Sept 2020 | Michael J. Sandel

Posted on 09/07/2020 9:16:09 AM PDT by Theoria

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To: Da Coyote

There is acceptable disdain for child molesters, slovenliness, wife beaters, lots of stuff.


21 posted on 09/07/2020 11:17:05 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: mass55th

Jason Whitlock was really angry and disgusted at LeBron calling him an uneducated spoiled trouble maker. It was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcfCCMClFXU


22 posted on 09/07/2020 11:18:41 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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Sorry, wrong time lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcfCCMClFXU


23 posted on 09/07/2020 11:19:44 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Theoria

IQ is a racist white construct until there’s a black man on death row.


24 posted on 09/07/2020 11:23:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Obama was great because he was educated in the Ivy League...
Biden is great because he wasn't educated in the Ivy League.

Ivy Leaguer Donald Trump is.., is..,ORANGE MAN BAD!

25 posted on 09/07/2020 11:52:48 AM PDT by fhayek
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Being untainted by the Ivy League credentials of his predecessors may enable Mr. Biden to connect more readily with the blue-collar workers the Democratic Party has struggled to attract in recent years.

I don't think so. As for Biden's education, he graduated at the bottom of his class, and it shows. He is slow and it is not a recent thing. Biden doesn't know much about anything. He has an intelligence problem, a knowledge problem, a critical thinking problem and a values problem.

I know plenty of blue-collar guys that are bright and they are educated for their vocation and their avocations whether it be wood working, fly fishing, hunting, etc. Joe Biden comes off like an idiot to them. Any man that has the least bit of knowledge about guns and has heard Biden's drivel about guns in the past thinks Biden is clueless. If someone works in coal or shale, they know Biden is an idiot. Plenty of those guys in PA. I know a guy who welds pipelines here in PA for natural gas. He has tons of certifications for his job, he's hard working, and makes tons of money. He has no interest in the multiple hits that he could take if Biden is elected. No fracking and higher taxes. Both based on the supreme knowledge that Biden possesses on energy and the economy.

This piece of schiff author doesn't have a clue on how people think outside his leftist bubble. He's just like Biden.

26 posted on 09/07/2020 12:29:14 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Every now and then some leftist brings this up and the rest of them blissfully ignore it, totally confident that they are inherently superior to the ‘deplorables’. They gleefully mock and denigrate those they consider to be lesser, and when they lose they wonder aloud why the little people ‘vote against their best interests’. Well, they might not have the best education, but they know when someone hates them and that’s who they vote against.


27 posted on 09/07/2020 1:09:21 PM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: fhayek

“Obama was great because he was educated in the Ivy League...
Biden is great because he wasn’t educated in the Ivy League.”

They do the same when it comes to military service. I have come to expect that kind of spin from the Dems. What bothers me is how complicit and hypocritical the legacy media is with it.


28 posted on 09/07/2020 1:14:15 PM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: Theoria

The big secret the MSM will never reveal is the majority of democrats living in CA think republicans living in the south are moronic religious fanatics who are married to their retarded cousin.
I have had women from CA tell me this to my face.


29 posted on 09/07/2020 1:17:46 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Theoria

Reworked their title for them:

Disdain for the Overeducated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice.

No matter where you go in America, people look down on those whose “self appointed elite” attitude is based solely on academic achievements. But who lack the sensibilities of common sense and experience.


30 posted on 09/07/2020 2:04:30 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing.” -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
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Talking About White Privilege Can Reduce Liberals’ Sympathy for Poor White People
New research finds that social liberals who read about the phenomenon are subsequently less forgiving toward poor whites.
https://psmag.com/news/talking-about-white-privilege-can-reduce-liberal-sympathy-for-poor-white-people


31 posted on 09/07/2020 6:33:08 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Theoria
And here I thought that disdain for RENTERS was the last acceptable prejudice.

Guess I need some more eddikashun.

32 posted on 09/07/2020 10:00:43 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Theoria
The problem is that too many democrats think that education begins a public school room and ends in collage.

Neither of those things is true.

Most of the "uneducated" people are actually quite educated they just did not bother to spend buco bucks to get a piece of paper saying they were educated. They figured that they had better things to spend their money on.

33 posted on 09/07/2020 10:29:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: Theoria

Sometimes I think educations you less capable.
In any sort of dangerous situation, Who would you want on your team - an over-educated barista or a redneck?


34 posted on 09/08/2020 8:49:01 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security! (Ironic, huh?))
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