Friday, February 17, 2006
Rich White Men
College students are amazing! They are sure they know everything they need to know and damn anyone who thinks they don't. The University of Washington was placed in the idiot's limelight recently when their student body voted down a memorial celebrating their own alumnae, Colonel Greg "Pappy" Boyington.
One ignorant female white student declared that we already have enought statues of righ, white men on campus. Colonel Boyington was not a white man. He was a Sioux Indian. He also was never rich, at least monetarily(sic). But he did graduate from the University of Washington in 1933.
He was a hero of World War II, the leader of the Black Sheep Squadron, which had a television series about it that still runs occasionally to this day. Apparently the current students of UW have no idea who he was or what he did. At least the students who are making the decision to erect a memorial.
I have no idea why they want to erect this memorial in the first place. Do they have extra money laying around they must use? Whatever the reason for putting up the memorial, the students feel a US Medal of Honor winner, hero of WWII, father of three children which he mainly raised himself, a Sioux Indian who rose to officer ranks in the US Marine Corps is not worthy of the students respect.
Of course, just by this ridiculously ill-informed attitude, the complaining students simply exhibit their true ignorance of anything which they currently do not agree with. I kind of think that if this female who stated we have enough statues of rich, white men were to meet a rich white man and fall in love, she would have no problem with that rich, white man.
Students are supposed to be liberal. Was it Mark Twain who said, "If you're not a liberal at age 18, you have no heart." So they can be forgiven for their typically liberal attitudes. That's what you get in university settings and at university ages. But the remainder of the quote, "If you're not conservative by the time you turn 30, you have no brain." is truly more telling.
And looking at the professors at these liberal institutions, it is obvious that the vast majority of them are indeed still liberals. Which tells me that most of the professors at these universities actually do not use their brain. Yet they do a damn fine job at keeping the student body focused on the liberal philosophy. Lots of heart anyway.
What strikes me odd about many of those liberal professors at these liberal universities is that a large majority of them become rich, white men. I guess they won't be getting any statues honoring them either. At least that's a good thing.
Give me a choice between a heart and a brain and I'll choose the brain. It's just the way I think. I am a white man, but I wouldn't consider myself rich. Just comfortable.
OH
One ignorant female white student declared that we already have enought statues of righ, white men on campus. Colonel Boyington was not a white man. He was a Sioux Indian. He also was never rich, at least monetarily(sic). But he did graduate from the University of Washington in 1933.
He was a hero of World War II, the leader of the Black Sheep Squadron, which had a television series about it that still runs occasionally to this day. Apparently the current students of UW have no idea who he was or what he did. At least the students who are making the decision to erect a memorial.
I have no idea why they want to erect this memorial in the first place. Do they have extra money laying around they must use? Whatever the reason for putting up the memorial, the students feel a US Medal of Honor winner, hero of WWII, father of three children which he mainly raised himself, a Sioux Indian who rose to officer ranks in the US Marine Corps is not worthy of the students respect.
Of course, just by this ridiculously ill-informed attitude, the complaining students simply exhibit their true ignorance of anything which they currently do not agree with. I kind of think that if this female who stated we have enough statues of rich, white men were to meet a rich white man and fall in love, she would have no problem with that rich, white man.
Students are supposed to be liberal. Was it Mark Twain who said, "If you're not a liberal at age 18, you have no heart." So they can be forgiven for their typically liberal attitudes. That's what you get in university settings and at university ages. But the remainder of the quote, "If you're not conservative by the time you turn 30, you have no brain." is truly more telling.
And looking at the professors at these liberal institutions, it is obvious that the vast majority of them are indeed still liberals. Which tells me that most of the professors at these universities actually do not use their brain. Yet they do a damn fine job at keeping the student body focused on the liberal philosophy. Lots of heart anyway.
What strikes me odd about many of those liberal professors at these liberal universities is that a large majority of them become rich, white men. I guess they won't be getting any statues honoring them either. At least that's a good thing.
Give me a choice between a heart and a brain and I'll choose the brain. It's just the way I think. I am a white man, but I wouldn't consider myself rich. Just comfortable.
OH
# posted by OH @ 12:57 PM 
