March of the Credentialed Morons
American Thinker,
by
Clarice Feldman
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
6/28/2020 6:53:17 AM
1. Academic Disaster
For at least the past two decades, our colleges and universities have devolved into leftist training camps where free speech is labeled hateful and induced leftist conformity is the order of the day. Even professors at the University of Chicago, famed for its free speech code, fear to speak out.
Mr. Cochrane wrote on June 15, “I spent much of my last few years of teaching afraid that I would say something that could be misunderstood and thus be offensive to someone. Many of my colleagues report the same worries.” (Snip) 2. The BLM/Antifa Riots Blue state riots continue, further harming the poor,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/28/2020 7:53:11 AM (No. 459692)
Another Sunday gem by Clarice.
FTA: "BLM really is better named White Leftist Matters (WLM), a movement largely by young, middle and upper-class whites to increase their own political power."
My only suggested edit: "a movement of young, middle and upper-class white women". It's an army of Marxist Karens.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/28/2020 7:58:13 AM (No. 459696)
These Marxist Slime professors built their house of crap now they have to live in it!
Now it's time for us to destroy it!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
John C 6/28/2020 8:04:40 AM (No. 459703)
Have sent this on the the uninformed politicians who represent my area.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 6/28/2020 8:37:29 AM (No. 459748)
This one will go down in history as one of best. Thank you Clarice for all you do! Your articles should be an automatic must read every Sunday.
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jeffkinnh 6/28/2020 9:04:13 AM (No. 459766)
"As bad as left wing Democrats are at governing, they are very skilled at manipulating the truth."
I would question the word "skilled". I would say they have rigged the game by controlling the media, certain aspects of the bureaucracy, social media, and other means of communication. "Skilled" would imply that they deftly get away with their lies. Yet, especially recently, their memes fall embarrassingly apart sometimes within hours. That seems to indicate chronic ineptness.
"except for this overwrought nonsense, what do they have?"
An excellent point. Dems are rolling around in the gutter because that is where they have been living for a while now. The truth is, dems have NOTHING to offer America and more and more people are figuring that out. This is what #BLEXIT and #WalkAway are about, people coming to the realization that dems are not only useless but toxic. They have fallen to the point that they are willing to destroy America to win, if they can get away with it.
This is what BO and his thugs did in the 2016 election. They corrupted the FBI, DOJ, intelligence agencies, the State department, the IRS, the courts, and numerous sections of the bureaucracy in an attempt to steal an election. The media joined in willingly. They failed by the narrowest of margins. They continued their attacks on Trump because they were terrified that he would be successful and clearly demonstrate how debased and failed the dems are, and he has.
Well, now we know and this has triggered their extreme response. What else do they have to offer?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/28/2020 9:27:09 AM (No. 459786)
That photo (scroll down) of the Mill Valley protest looks like a bunch of college kids hanging out in the quad smoking weed and getting some of that California sun. They aren’t protesting. They’re playing on their smart phones.
We had a protest here in Charleston, SC a few weeks ago and it was a perfect example of WLFM (Thanks, #1) - absolutely everyone in the newspaper photo was a 20 something white female, probably from the College of Charleston.
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FTA: "The President this week directed the federal government to prioritize applicants’ skills and aptitudes over college degrees."
Rubbish. This horse was long ago let loose of the barn.
You want to know why government is so often inept? It's largely because it has been hiring the inept into "professional" positions since 1979 when it abolished written examinations and signed the Luevano agreement to essentially end them. Years later OPM came out with a "whole person" ACWA "exam" that is 100% bullstuff but continued to "open doors" to job seekers to avoid complaints. Internal "Merit Promotion" qualification standards were diluted by re-interpretation to "help" those who complained they didn't have any education but typed forms and filed, career status was required for eligibility ensuring the outside applicant pool was zero, and as a result clerks, few of whom had the intellectual capacity to serve as analysts or in other "professional fields" were promoted into intern programs, unable to read, write or otherwise communicate well, with zero ability to turn "data" into useful information after years of training. These are your GS-14/15s today running things. Over decades, this has also led to a lesser understanding of ideals such as duty and public service. Now it's all just a job, a promotion quest. And then there was the Hatch Act dilution...I recall Obama signs posted in Federal office windows in 2008...no action from management or the OSC.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 6/28/2020 11:52:54 AM (No. 459925)
"Cuomo, King of the Corpse Mountain".....that is a memorable turn of phrase, and deadly accurate, too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Calico Al 6/28/2020 1:40:43 PM (No. 460072)
How many of the protesters would have been preparing for their finals instead if not for the CV lock-down? Since the collages are closed the students have a lot of time on their hands. Why not join the Cause?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/28/2020 2:36:54 PM (No. 460118)
If the U.S. Government could obtain $1 for each utterance of the "F" word by these privileged morons of BLM/Antifa over the last couple of weeks, we could easily pay off our national debt.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Winstonian 6/28/2020 3:49:31 PM (No. 460151)
BLM, Bolshevik Lies Matter. (Lies is not misspelled)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BGray2 6/28/2020 5:11:40 PM (No. 460191)
College professors have been feeding the shark (indoctrinating students in Marxist BS) for over 50 years and now they are surprised when they get bit in the butt by their own ideology.
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Today's Clarice column is in four parts, each a gem -- Academia, the riots, a splendid statement from Ayaan Hirsi Ali comparing Africa, where she grew up, and America, and the consequences of all this to the Democrats.