These same [bourgeois] behaviours [derided by the academy]… are even more valuable to people whose social and economic status is poor. Upper middle class families have a lot of social and financial capital to draw on when a kid flunks out, loses a job, gets pregnant outside of marriage, or gets in trouble with the law. For people with less, these experiences are likely to be disastrous and life-ruining. To suggest otherwise is to engage in a monstrous and damaging deception.
Glenn Reynolds on the selfish example of campus radicals. One of these.
Privilege = work ethic and all that goes with it, reliability, accountability, civic mindedness, conscientiousness, impulse control.
“content of character”?front borc
When confronted with the hypocrisy of my lefty colleagues, I have never, ever asked them to practice what they preach; that would be hell on earth viz Venezuela. Rather I ask them to preach what they practice.
A bit OT (sorry):
Anybody check out Google’s latest home page homage to yet another left wing moonbat?:
“Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory.”
Translation: Traditional American values = success … cultural rot = FAILure
Yepper; Exasperated- I also backstopped one these family types. Fortunately family support lasted longer than adolescence. Cheers;
Protest football leagues. I think I am going to stop going to restaurants with TVs. There is a reason I cut the cord in my home; why pay cable fees to eat or drink?
Protest Football League
Protest Basketball Association
Protest Golf
Protest Hockey
Protest Baseball
Got better things to do