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.
How many Democrats have floated ideas for suburban planning, to shrink the cities and expand the suburbs?
Also: "...through 2012—the peak year of the “back to the city” movement—when outer suburbs grew more slowly than urban cores. Since then, the growth of urban cores has halved and exurban county growth has quadrupled."
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Looks like the majority of folks moving in the US are choosing suburbs and leaving cities. Hm.
Another in a long line of leftist idiots.
What I hear from that Berkeley Clown...is Liberal Projection...
The Left is in anguish having allied their minds, their hearts and their lives with an unsustainable fraudulent socialist-communist ideology-the survival of which depends upon their ability to ram “glowbull warming” and “climate change” down all our collective throats-through which they can justify taking control of the minutiae of each of all our individual life decisions.
That they have come so close is alarming...
The left sure seems to like to call people “bad”. Funny how they claim to not be judgmental
When he gets mugged or stabbed in Berkeley or Oakland, it very likely wont be a hick rural dweller who does it.
It will be one of his beloved city residents.
I live in the mountains. Up where the air is crisp and clean. It’s good for the mind and soul to be able to see as far as the eye can see. It’s the American way. There are advantages living in cities as well. This guy should be dropped off in the middle of Nevada or any rural area and see how he’s treated by those bad country people. Most likely they will be happy to help you. Americans are good. This guy needs to take a long walk on a short pier.
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Well. He can just kiss my grits!
What, exactly, is more "efficient" about city life? More efficient production of pollution, vermin, and filth? More efficient at producing gridlock traffic? More efficient at producing dysfunctional families and high criminality? More efficient at isolating people and preventing them from forming normal human connections? More efficient at separating people from nature? Personally, I can't think of a single reason to live in a city. It's small towns for me!
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.
It is a pipe dream of many leftists to force everyone to live in cities. I have seen "academic" papers extolling the [subjective] wonders of living in cities. They never rationally explain why they think everyone should live in cities. I think two things drive this: one, they like being close to high density entertainment and shopping, and two, they sense that cities are destructors of civilization and would thus force city living as a way to accelerate the Cloward-Piven strategy of forcing societal collapse.
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.
No, he is that crass and mean. Maybe he should try living out in rural America until he develops a sense of normal life and empathy with nature.
“Bonus humiliation if he also realizes that the guy who delivers tractor fuel is considered to be much more useful than a grad student/instructor of philosophy...”
A philosophy major will someday need a plumber. A plumber, OTOH, will never need a philosophy major.
Graduated from Harvard in 2012 and is apparently still working on his Masters thesis seven years later. WWII was over in about that same time frame and it was a heck of a lot of those rural hicks that this twerp despises that now permits him to be a perpetual student.
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No. I have an advanced degree, and certainly am not that dumb, nor are most of the highly educated people I know. This guy has a Ph.D. in philosophy, which hardly counts as an academic subject. I would bet that he was raised in the city and has internalized many of the psychological pathologies that come from living in crowded unfriendly environments.
The deep, dark secret is that young, academic leftists (like the instructor in the article) love to plan to put everyone in their urban dystopias for the sake of “economy” and “efficiency” when they all live and dream for the day when they can have a home or two waaay outside their beloved metropolis so they can “get away from it all” and get “work done” in “peace and quiet.”
Perhaps this California horses ass should take a close look at the scum on San Fran and L.A. sidewalks in terms of bad life choices.
Perhaps this California horses ass should take a close look at the scum on San Fran and L.A. sidewalks in terms of bad life choices.
A bad life decision would be to give UC Berkeley one penny for tuition.
He's a typical liberal: projecting his own hopeless life on those he hates.
Love Hank Jr!
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