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August 20, 2014

What occurs to me about these delusional tools

- besides their mental conformity, their vanity, and their belief that the campus belongs to them and is theirs to disrupt
– is that their places could have been taken by students who don’t strive to silence facts and ideas, and who actually want to learn something. Perhaps even a skill that’s of value to others and will thereby earn them a living. There must be thousands of much smarter, more honest people – people who don’t imagine themselves as Maoist “revolutionaries” - who would eagerly use the opportunity that these obnoxious little parasites are squandering.
davidthompson: Elsewhere

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 20, 2014 5:27 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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The students he longs for are in tech schools, trade schools, and university STEM programs. Those in STEM programs have the added advantage of learning to live in a cultural cesspool while becoming a professional, with a few exceptions.

Posted by: BillH [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 20, 2014 7:48 AM

Paraphrasing S.J. Perelman, commenting from his college office, "Through the window came the smell of woodsmoke and freshman, and the decayed brains of instructors and instructees."

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 20, 2014 5:10 PM

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