“I think that the sense of anger and resentment and grievance against elites is at the heart of Trump's appeal. Now, of course, a good part of his appeal, a lot of people were drawn to the racist, xenophobic, misogynist aspect of his appeal. There is no question about that.”
WOW! Talk about bigotry!
Now, let’s all think back to not very long ago, when Kanye, as referenced right here on this site, made bigoted remarks about Jews. Apparently, Glenn did not approve of those remarks. Yet, here he allows the same sort of bigotry against Trump supporters, as if that is not a problem. It’s a HUGE problem.
Perhaps Glenn is thinking, “but with Trump supporters, it’s true”. Well, perhaps what Kanye said about Jews is true. Perhaps not. But any way you look at it, making denigrating comments about an entire class of people is bigotry. Period. Blaming cops for the actions of some of them, is bigotry. Period. Jews. Republicans, democrats, rich poor, Trump supporters. If you denigrate any of them as a class, you are a bigot. Period.
As for education, Sandal seems to easily buy into the myth that education is measured in years of attendance at school. That simply is not true. I have a master’s in education, and spent much of my early career unlearning the myths I’d been taught by all those years of being “educated”. To put it in the words of a famous English major, Paul Simon,
“When I think back on all the crap
I learned in high school,
It’s a wonder I can think at all.
But my lack of education hasn’t hurt me none;
I can read the writing on the wall.
Simon was speaking for, among others, all those unwashed, uneducated people who live in the real world and know how things really work. I would suggest that many of those who have dedicated their lives to academic incest and intellectual inbreeding, sometimes known as progressives, are far more clueless than they realize.
Do you want some winners? How about Henry Ford, who revolutionized auto manufacturing, but never went to college. Same for Thomas Edison, who invented usable electricity, moving pictures, recorded sound and countless other items. What have YOU done, Mr Sandal?
I’ve had seventeen years of education. I am glad about that. But I’ve never been so foolish as to believe that attending school takes more intelligence than being a plumber, or electrician, or farmer. And these people have to be right almost infallibly, or they will fail miserably. But “educators” can spew the latest, untested theory and get away with it for centuries before people realize how clueless they truly were.
“I think that the sense of anger and resentment and grievance against elites is at the heart of Trump's appeal. Now, of course, a good part of his appeal, a lot of people were drawn to the racist, xenophobic, misogynist aspect of his appeal. There is no question about that.”
WOW! Talk about bigotry!
Now, let’s all think back to not very long ago, when Kanye, as referenced right here on this site, made bigoted remarks about Jews. Apparently, Glenn did not approve of those remarks. Yet, here he allows the same sort of bigotry against Trump supporters, as if that is not a problem. It’s a HUGE problem.
Perhaps Glenn is thinking, “but with Trump supporters, it’s true”. Well, perhaps what Kanye said about Jews is true. Perhaps not. But any way you look at it, making denigrating comments about an entire class of people is bigotry. Period. Blaming cops for the actions of some of them, is bigotry. Period. Jews. Republicans, democrats, rich poor, Trump supporters. If you denigrate any of them as a class, you are a bigot. Period.
As for education, Sandal seems to easily buy into the myth that education is measured in years of attendance at school. That simply is not true. I have a master’s in education, and spent much of my early career unlearning the myths I’d been taught by all those years of being “educated”. To put it in the words of a famous English major, Paul Simon,
“When I think back on all the crap
I learned in high school,
It’s a wonder I can think at all.
But my lack of education hasn’t hurt me none;
I can read the writing on the wall.
Simon was speaking for, among others, all those unwashed, uneducated people who live in the real world and know how things really work. I would suggest that many of those who have dedicated their lives to academic incest and intellectual inbreeding, sometimes known as progressives, are far more clueless than they realize.
Do you want some winners? How about Henry Ford, who revolutionized auto manufacturing, but never went to college. Same for Thomas Edison, who invented usable electricity, moving pictures, recorded sound and countless other items. What have YOU done, Mr Sandal?
I’ve had seventeen years of education. I am glad about that. But I’ve never been so foolish as to believe that attending school takes more intelligence than being a plumber, or electrician, or farmer. And these people have to be right almost infallibly, or they will fail miserably. But “educators” can spew the latest, untested theory and get away with it for centuries before people realize how clueless they truly were.