Posted on 11/09/2019 4:12:48 AM PST by gattaca
Said they deserve 'uncomfortable' lives
A UC Berkeley graduate student and instructor took to Twitter on Wednesday to vent about his repulsion for rural Americans and why they deserve to live "uncomfortable" lives.
Jackson Kernion, a graduate student who has taught at least 11 philosophy courses at the university, posted that he "unironically embrace[s] the bashing of rural Americans."
"They, as a group, are bad people who have made bad life decisions," he said in the since-deleted tweet. "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."
According to Campus Reform, the Twitter thread started with Kernion advocating against affordable health care solutions for rural Americans, saying that "Rural Healthcare Should be expensive! And that expense should be borne by those who choose rural America!"
"Same goes for rural broadband. And gas taxes," he argued. "It should be uncomfortable to live in rural America. It should be uncomfortable to not move."
Evidently Kernion believes that rural living Americans are purposely rejecting the more "efficient" city-dwelling life, and thus should bear the consequences of more expense.
Though Kernion may have been intending to make economic arguments for his beliefs, his tweets had quickly devolved into ad hominem attacks on rural Americans.
After facing some backlash, Kernion did seem to apologize for his tone, which he says came across as "way crasser and meaner" than he believes himself to be.
Dummies like her in the cities live there because it is their security blanket. The little kids need coddled.
Food doesn’t grow in the cities, neither is gas produced. Tax her cities more for it. The moron liberal has no idea that cities produce very little of what she consumes.
Farmers are only 2% of the population and 1% of GDP. Most ( almost all ) “rural” citizens have nothing to do with farming.
My tag line.
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And no gas for his car or a/c or heat. No turkey or tofu on his holiday table or coffee beans and almond milk in his Starbucks’ paper cup. Just when you thought Berkeley couldn’t turn out worse.
If only us bad rural people didn’t have to read such garbage coming through our broadband.
I heard a liberal vegan once say that eggs were aborted chickens.
There is a city in Holiday City, NJ (what better location!) where they’re upset there are some turkeys running around. They should be happy for the free eggs and there’s their free range turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
This pithy little turd needs to be flushed. Or better yet, dropped through the hole in the seat in my outhouse.
Taught 11 courses. Stupidity must be why it’s taking him so long to get his degree.
Where’s the acceptance of diversity at Berkeley?
Thx for new tagline, bro.
Tagline
Prolly Wittgenstein is an agent of counter-philosophy.
I’m sure he thinks he is the smartest one in his little bubble.
Fixed the gosh-darned formatting.
Well done! Looks great! :-)
Apparently the worst mistake rural dwellers make is to keep growing food & sending it to the cities where creeps like this person live.
I was raised rural. I lived IN THE CITY-—Los Angeles for 29 years—and have lived rural again for over 26 years.
Having lived for long periods in both structures, I will stay rural forever.
At least the urine & excrement I have to see are from my horses......not from people who crap & urinate anywhere they wish in the cities.
Yes, if you’re talking about the Virginians.
I would like to see his DETAILED data on ‘city efficiency’.
UC Berkeley = AKA Hotel California
Maybe they also like “Horse Therapy”.
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