Tennessee lawmaker calls for removal of higher education

[babylonsister]

Darned liberals

https://www.wsmv.com/news/robertson_county/tennessee-lawmaker-calls-for-removal-of-higher-education/article_d5ab8c13-aec6-588c-a6f8-3af1e61008b0.html?fbclid=IwAR2ydrcbUk_msCYFZwd8g4wUe8jS_pR281y9x4DPNaWM5WRssqcca7LlP6g



Tennessee lawmaker calls for removal of higher education
Updated 2 hrs ago | Posted on Sep 9, 2019


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Republican Tennessee lawmaker says he supports getting rid of higher education because he argues it would cut off the "liberal breeding ground."

Sen. Kerry Roberts of Springfield called for eliminating higher education while speaking about attending a recent abortion legislative hearing on his conservative radio talk show on Sept. 2.

Roberts specifically called out one activist who testified in favor of protecting abortion rights. He asserted without evidence that the woman's beliefs were a "product of higher education" and claimed that getting rid of higher education would "save America."

The senator did not immediately respond to a request for further elaboration.

Roberts also questioned funding higher education with tax dollars. He voted in favor of the state's $38.5 billion budget earlier this year, which included money for colleges and universities.

[Keg Stand]

1. It doesn't sound to me as though he is very well educated. n/t

[Thomas Hurt]

2. because the ignorant and ill educated are easier to oppress and exploit

another authoritarian tool.

[Ilsa]

3. Then he needs a doctor with a high school education.

And an electrician that only got as far as playing with Legos.

Add your own.

[guillaumeb]

4. And, he has a theme song:

[Stuart G]

5. This fellow is pretty a very dim bulb...Like a 4 watt bulb...

He is about as smart as that fellow who ran against Clair in Missouri.. Now, what did he say? Something just as stupid, but I cannot remember.

He ??? was also a 4 watt bulb if I recall.
...What did he say?? Something about sex and children and rape.. something very stupid.

...But the world is full of Stupid. There was a story tonight about Stupid Sara Palin. Hard to live with or something like that...also a story about Stupid Donald Trump and writing lines with a pen. No higher education?
..Not the smartest comment, but I sure know where he gets his stupidity from. A Republican of course..

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Good. When is he closing the University of Tennessee?

[Takket]

7. educated people become liberal which is why rethugs hate education

dumb people are easy to control.

[smirkymonkey]

11. +1000

[lunasun]

8. Dez luv da unedukated

FFS then when outed claims it was just his conservative radio talk show humor

I guess the truly stupid listening to him also believe that bs

[DBoon]

9. "ignorance is strength"

- George Orwell, 1984

[montanacowboy]

10. Well, No More College Football

Games - hahahaha how does Tennessee like that?

Oh, they can go to the high school games I guess

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. They're already going through the lack of college football phase.

UT can't even beat Georgia State and BYU - at home!

[Liberal In Texas]

13. And we once thought "Idiocracy" was a sci-fi movie.

The stupid in this country is scary.

[GoCubsGo]

15. My first thought was actually "The Killing Fields."

Not saying this is equivalent, but Pol Pot hated educated people, too. So much that he killed them all, or forced them to flee the country. We all know damn well that, deep down, this clown probably wishes for the same. Every time I hear one of these assholes bashing higher education, I can't help but think of 1970s Cambodia...

[Boomerproud]

14. Maybe we should bring back the Scopes Monkey

Trial. My grandfather knew Clarence Darrow btw.

[real Cannabis calm]

16. Hallmark of a Tyrant: DESTROY HIGHER EDUCATION...

except for the wealthy.

[Wounded Bear]

17. "Higher Education" has become a cash cow for conservatives...

somehow I don't think this will go anywhere.