"Quick! Hide the women and children! It's COLLEGE!"

[veronica_rich]

So today a lovely person passes along this in-all-seriousness press release from an ultra conservative, TEA Party-like group with the subject line - I am not making this up - "Study Shows Colleges Make Graduates More Liberal."

Yeah ........

I am now envisioning College as this Batman-universe Supervillain, with a cape of lambskin parchment with the Socialist Manifesto printed on the back (thanks to crevette for that bit of inspiration), wearing a mask of exaggerated nerd-glasses plastic black ... and of course, a Pocket Protector(TM). His weapons of choice are an acid-laced inkpot and super-sharpened turbo-boosted No. 2 pencils. Being anti-American, of course, his suit's colors are green, black, and orange, with pink sparkly princess boots just to make you wonder if your gaydar ought to be tripping (of course it should - he's LIBERAL).

The only way to defeat College is to find and pull the hidden vacuum-sealed titanium plug in the nape of his neck so that his brains dribble out. And his catchphrase just before he tries to carry out his evil plan of educmacation is something like "It is highly improbable you will ever effect cessation of my dubious neural influence, ha ha!"

I WANT ARTWORK. YOU GUYS. I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE ARTISTS. DON'T TRY TO HIDE FROM ME.

Comments

[solitaryraven.livejournal.com]

Wow...and I wonder why that is. It must be some sort of conspiracy these smart-type elitists are hiding.

Seriously? I'm am so, SO sick of these people acting like being smart or caring about college is a BAD thing. It's one thing to say that you can do well without college because I do think that there are people who absolutely can. But to act as though you're somehow better, like it's something to be proud of that you don't have an education and are ignorant about how the world actually works? Yeah...no. I have no problem with people who don't go to college--I have a problem with the people who are proud of the ignorance. This is why Sarah Palin should never, EVER be let near public office.

I was very amused last week when one of the speakers at the TEA Party convention said that if people were forced to take civics and literacy tests to vote, Obama never would have been elected. Sure, let's try that--that way all of the people who are dumb enough to believe the "Obama is a terrorist/Muslim, Obama's not really an American, and Obama's as facist/socialist" wouldn't be able to vote. That works for me. ;)

[virginia-fell.livejournal.com]

Everybody who cannot correctly answer what the job of the judicial branch is suddenly being unable to vote. Hrm. Yeah, that plan might backfire on Conservatives.

[solitaryraven.livejournal.com]

Or what the job of the Vice President is. ;)

(Or whether Africa is a continent or a country. Because, you know, people should be proud not to know the difference, and I'm an elitist for knowing it. It's not like I didn't learn it in second grade in public school or anything. Heh. Sorry had to add that in.)

[joey112.livejournal.com]

So that's why I'm so liberal. Who knew?

[beldar.livejournal.com]

Well, they do call it "liberal arts"

Does this liberalizing effect work at places like Liberty, Bob Jones University, Oral Roberts University, etc.?

I remember our campus conservatives shouting down Lloyd Benson (VP candidate) when he visited the University of Arkansas during the 1988 campaign. Not saying the place was overrun with Reagan Youth, just that there were fanatics of all stripes there.

Notice the biggest critics of college are those who never went or dropped out (like Limbaugh) -- tho iirc Palin actually finished her degree -- heaven forbid people get the chance to examine different viewpoints and open their minds before deciding what they will believe for the rest of their lives.

[bellumed.livejournal.com]

Yes, conservatives. That's right. Don't send your kids to college, please. That will just work out beautifully.

[hippediva.livejournal.com]

Yup. Leave the university degrees to us horrible libs. All the conservative kids will end up with GED's...except, of course, their party leaders who will benefit from the very best educations money can buy. How else can they hope to control their minions?

[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

Using my satan-granted gift, I will work on some songs.

Well, at least one. I need inspiration from some random phrases.

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

I just wish that the people who follow the Neo-Cons so blindly would wake up to understand just what they do to themselves by being so easily (mis)led. *sigh*

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

*gags* Not at you, at the "study". College also educates conservatives. I happened to know quite a few, even in Kville.