The Party of the Well-Educated Offers the Least Well-Educated Candidates

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This is an excellent article about how decades of creeping favoratism towards minorities has resulted in the most vapid, ignorant, empty and downright stupid person running for President.

The closing paragraph says it all except I would apply its conclusions to the entire Democrat electorate, not just professors in the academy.

This transformation is perfectly illustrated by the appointment of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard. Here was a woman of color with a modest academic record, a serial plagiarist who falsified her research and was openly anti-white. Yet the Harvard faculty and the administration anointed her as Harvard’s president. This embrace did not happen overnight. It required decades of slow-moving self-delusion promoted by incessant, often forceful proselytizing. Now, when these academics see a woman of color, their reflexive response is “qualified.” After all, once you have come to believe that gender is socially constructed, that American is fundamentally racist and victimhood is an exalted status, seeing Kamala Harris as “qualified to be president” is a snap. Many academics have obviously become well-trained in denying a plain-to-see reality.

Abraham Lincoln didn’t have a college degree, Nixon went to Whittier because he couldn’t afford Harvard, and Reagan went to Eureka College.

Condoleezza Rice doesn’t have an ivy degree, but she is a professor at Stanford.

Education can often mean = indoctrination. But not always. So it shouldn’t be the end all be all either way.

Read the article. The author discusses those people and the schools they attended (and others).

An examination of those degrees will reveal a scarcity of physics and math and a surplus of sociology, urban studies and political science.

So the leap on their part to declare themselves well educated is suspect.

She then transferred to Howard University, an historically black school in Washington D.C. rated 183rd of all U.S. colleges.

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So she was trading on her possible 1/64th black gene back then. There is an excellent video by Candace Own that attempts to trace her father’s side decent without much success using Kamala’s own book recalling who was who in her family.

Turns out that one of her named black aunts was just a random family friends or neighbor and another was white and Irish. Owens was hard pressed to find any black relatives on her father’s side, using Kamala’s own book and the people she names as her relatives.

Harvard University’s mission statement in the opening of its rulebook from 1646:

“Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the maine end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning”

Harvard’s original motto was “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae,” which translates to “Truth for Christ and the Church”

Much of the Ivy League except Cornell hailed similar virtues.

As pragmatic a businessman an executive like the president should be...the real downfall of modern Western education is the lack of in-depth HUMANITIES and rabid secularization of the Liberal Arts. The search for truth, for God’s hand in creation, for the meaning of existence and the human condition as revealed in literature —> all that is supposed to be universal and transcend vocational trades.

TWO BLACK SCHOLARS LAMENT THE REMOVAL OF THE CLASSICS DEPARTMENT AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY as a “Spiritual Catastrophe”

https://cornellfreespeech.com/commentary-howard-universitys-removal-classics-spiritual-catastrophe

Thanks for the pointers to those articles. I will read them.

Over the past couple decades, Prof. Victor Hanson has become extremely critical of the pompous self-proclaimed “elite” at the Ivy schools in the USA. He says all you get from those schools is a “brand” on your hide and connections to other upper crust snobs, but no solid classical education. And you get thoroughly steeped in “minorities are good no matter their skills or competence.”