WaPo - 'Elitists, crybabies and junk degrees' - RW Response To College Accessibility Efforts

[TomCADem]

You know how Democrats and Bernie Sanders have offered numerous proposals to increase access to higher education? Well, the right wing response it to paint college as elitist, thus the efforts of Democrats and progressives to provide lower cost or free college is seen as elitist and out of touch.

Next up, health care, clean air and food will be portrayed as elitist claptrap with the right wing media portraying such goals as part of a liberal elite conspiracy. Polluting is populist!

Think I am kidding? Look at the increasing incidents of "rolling coal" as a type of working class RW protest where drivers disable pollution control on their diesel trucks:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/elitists-crybabies-and-junk-degrees/ar-BBFCBQy?ocid=spartanntp

Frank Antenori shot the head off a rattlesnake at his back door last summer — a deadeye pistol blast from 20 feet. No college professor taught him that. The U.S. Army trained him, as a marksman and a medic, on the "two-way rifle range" of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Useful skills. Smart return on taxpayers' investment. Not like the waste he sees at too many colleges and universities, where he says liberal professors teach "ridiculous" classes and indoctrinate students "who hang out and protest all day long and cry on our dime."

"Why does a kid go to a major university these days?" said Antenori, 51, a former Green Beret who served in the Arizona state legislature. "A lot of Republicans would say they go there to get brainwashed and learn how to become activists and basically go out in the world and cause trouble."

Antenori is part of an increasingly vocal campaign to transform American higher education. Although U.S. universities are envied around the world, he and other conservatives want to reduce the flow of government money to what they see as elitist, politically correct institutions that often fail to provide practical skills for the job market.

[jaysunb]

1. Here's an effective TV ad waiting to be made. n/t

[ProudLib72]

2. So basically vocational school is ok

but they better not teach any librul arts or satanist magic (science)? Maybe he thinks a "practical skill" is mining coal? These people are so dumb I'm amazed they can feed themselves.

[VMA131Marine]

3. I think the crybaby is the guy who couldn't go to a major university...

[Matthew28]

4. The American taliban

is a lot like the one in the middle east...Both hate education, freedom and anyone that doesn't worship all day long. They're the stupidest and most backwards people imaginable.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Big enough gun and even I can shoot a snake

Not that there’s any around here to worry about. Think I’ll keep my nursing degree and continue to do good things with it.

[dhill926]

6. I'm sure he can back up...

all his assertions...with commonly accepted facts...asshole...