American Universities - raising the next generation of lolcows

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If you paid money to go to university you're a fucking idiot.

Why didn't you just go to vocational school? Or shit, get a good government job in civil service straight out of high school.
 
6) Literally everything is about diversity. Diversity is the be all and end all of even the most mundane aspects of the university and its operation.
I've seen that at mine as well, and while diversity is all well and good, it's not because diversity as a concept is good. It's because people with different viewpoints and skills can bring something new to the table and perhaps excel where others in a group falter. But the thing about that is that it has nothing to do with race, appearance, etc. It has to do with abilities and viewpoints. That's why diversity is, in this sense, typically good. But diversity for the sake of diversity (especially with how they see diversity as physical characteristics and not beliefs and abilities) is poisonous, as it ignores skills and qualification.
 
If you paid money to go to university you're a fucking idiot.

Why didn't you just go to vocational school? Or shit, get a good government job in civil service straight out of high school.
or join the abbo ghetto, huff gasoline and dox people online?
 
It seems like there's this idea in society that going to a college or university seems to be the only path people can take, at least, that's what I grew up thinking. Fact is, there are so many different paths people can take towards success and seeing all these universities lose any credibility they once had just makes me believe that more and more.

I'm not saying don't go to college or university, I'm just saying that it's not the only option you have. No one wants to go into college and find themselves not knowing what to do and end up spending a good portion of their lives in debt.

What I don't seem to get is why public school is in the shitter right now. You have these big universities that make bank, yet the part of the education system that's the most important, the ones where KIDS have to go through, is so underfunded and getting cuts all the time. I remember when I left high school they closed down the library, which honestly makes me sad. How fucked is your school system where you have to cut LIBRARIES out? It's completely backwards and something needs to change, lest we go the way of the Romans.
 
I've seen that at mine as well, and while diversity is all well and good, it's not because diversity as a concept is good. It's because people with different viewpoints and skills can bring something new to the table and perhaps excel where others in a group falter. But the thing about that is that it has nothing to do with race, appearance, etc. It has to do with abilities and viewpoints. That's why diversity is, in this sense, typically good. But diversity for the sake of diversity (especially with how they see diversity as physical characteristics and not beliefs and abilities) is poisonous, as it ignores skills and qualification.

Diversity is also cheap AND brings in more $$$ by way of student loans, alumni donations, and grants. It's easy to pay lip service to diversity, and it's a no brainer to do it in the current higher education industry. Diversity of thought is hard to quantify, hard to capitalize on, and generally not monetarily rewarded.
 
The American university I attended was chock full of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans taking advantage of their GI Bill benefits, so along with the swarms of international students from overseas, they kind of balanced out the stereotypical American SJW betamales and legbeards. I graduated before the general election, so we weren't even 100% sure that Trump would win the Republican nomination at the time, but I did meet at least two students and a tenured faculty member (my cell physiology prof) who were eager to vote for Trump and trying to convert everybody they knew, plus a few more who were sympathetic to the cause but couldn't vote due to not being citizens. I did not have the misfortune of having any libtard cuck professors, but except for the cell physiology prof, they were all pretty much against Trump and for Hillary because they preferred the establishment, even if they didn't like Hillary.

There were a couple borderline incidents that made me do a doubletake though, as if the internet SJW culture was seeping over into RL. One time I was with a mycology prof collecting specimens in the wetlands when she found a centipede and in a passing referred to it with "her" and "she" pronouns. I said something to the effect of "Wow, I didn't know it was possible to identify the sex/gender of a centipede with the naked eye alone. That's really impressive observational skill!". She kind of bristled at my comment and said she couldn't actually tell whether it was a male or female centipede, but she preferred to use female pronoun as a neutral default for organisms in order to counteract 100 years of everyone else using male pronouns for the same purpose.

Another time I overheard a couple of Tumblr-y SJW type of students conspiring to file a complaint against an untenured professor because they felt the department did not have enough POC and the professor was discriminating against POC or something like that. It was hard to follow, but it made my stomach turn, because the gist of it was that they didn't like the professor's personality or attitude and were trying to crucify him on those grounds, without any legitimate grievances about any possible shortcomings of his as an instructor or researcher.

And on one occasion, while in a public study space, I made a joking remark about the incorrect grammar of a quote someone had written on a whiteboard. This tumblr girl flanked by a pair of beta numales showed up just then and immediately started retorting how it was a problematic jibe because the quote was supposed to be from an author famous for writing ebonics poems or books or something.

Another time I was in conference with this grad student for this course we were teaching, and she was almost literally triggered when someone mentioned Trump's name in passing connection with an election forum event or something of the sort on campus that would force us to reschedule our next meeting to a different location. Like it took ten seconds for her to calm down enough to get back to the topic at hand.

The other times were usually me reasonably arguing for various anti-liberal, anti-progressive viewpoints in different history classes to the discomfort of libtard students and sometimes the prof. Usually the profs were pretty good about entertaining a dissenting opinion backed by critical self-analysis, but the students sometimes did not get past the base emotional outrage and were not so tolerant.

I guess it probably depends on the institution though. Some schools or some departments are probably bonafide lolcow factories while others are productive and beneficial contributors to American economy and workforce.
Your centipede story sounds more autistic than the professor calling it a she.
 
If you paid money to go to university you're a fucking idiot.

Why didn't you just go to vocational school? Or shit, get a good government job in civil service straight out of high school.
Some people are interested in learning for its own sake. Unfortunately Western universities are no longer teaching them.
 
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