Why Academics Leftists and Elitists Need to Treat Ordinary Americans With Respect
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acesfull86
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I’m sure an antisemite like her will be much happier in Doha. Win-win situation.
Now if we can get “queers for Palestine” to take a field trip, we’ll really have something
I hope they somehow learn to fly because those buildings are pretty high.
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https://jeffjacoby.com/27502/america-elites-live-in-a-world-of-their-own
CONSIDER A few questions:
In America today, is there too much individual freedom or too much government control?
To curb climate change, should gas, meat, and electricity be strictly rationed?
Are your personal finances getting better or worse?
Can government be trusted to do the right thing most of the time?
Those were among the queries asked in a series of opinion surveys last year by Scott Rasmussen, a longtime independent pollster not affiliated with any candidate. Rasmussen was testing a phenomenon he had detected over months of conducting nationwide polls. "I consistently noticed that three groups held views that were different from most voters," he told me this week. "People with a postgraduate degree, people who lived in densely populated urban areas, and people who made more than $150,000 a year."
In a standard poll of 1,000 adults, only about 10 respondents, or 1 percent, met those criteria. That's too few from which to draw a statistically significant conclusion. So last fall Rasmussen conducted full-scale surveys of respondents meeting those conditions — a group he calls "elites" — and sure enough, the pattern he had sensed emerged full-blown. The views of elites weren't just slightly out of sync with those of the population at large. They were dramatically different.
Take the questions listed above.
In Rasmussen's general surveys, about 16 percent of respondents said there is too much individual freedom, while 57 percent said there is too much government control. But among the polled elites, three times as many (47 percent) believed there is too much freedom. Just 1 in 5 responded that there is too much control.
Strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity? In broad-based surveys, 63 percent opposed rationing and 28 percent approved. When elites were surveyed, on the other hand, the results flipped: Fully 77 percent favored rationing, while only 22 percent said they were opposed.
Personal financial circumstances? Of the elite respondents, an overwhelming 74 percent reported that their finances are getting better. When the question was put to a cross section of the public, by contrast, just 20 percent believed they were better off.
As for trust in government, 70 percent of elites surveyed expressed confidence that government officials will do the right thing most of the time. Yet among the general public, surveys have shown for years that less than 25 percent has that kind of trust.
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That's pretty remarkable...
CONSIDER A few questions:
In America today, is there too much individual freedom or too much government control?
To curb climate change, should gas, meat, and electricity be strictly rationed?
Are your personal finances getting better or worse?
Can government be trusted to do the right thing most of the time?
Those were among the queries asked in a series of opinion surveys last year by Scott Rasmussen, a longtime independent pollster not affiliated with any candidate. Rasmussen was testing a phenomenon he had detected over months of conducting nationwide polls. "I consistently noticed that three groups held views that were different from most voters," he told me this week. "People with a postgraduate degree, people who lived in densely populated urban areas, and people who made more than $150,000 a year."
In a standard poll of 1,000 adults, only about 10 respondents, or 1 percent, met those criteria. That's too few from which to draw a statistically significant conclusion. So last fall Rasmussen conducted full-scale surveys of respondents meeting those conditions — a group he calls "elites" — and sure enough, the pattern he had sensed emerged full-blown. The views of elites weren't just slightly out of sync with those of the population at large. They were dramatically different.
Take the questions listed above.
In Rasmussen's general surveys, about 16 percent of respondents said there is too much individual freedom, while 57 percent said there is too much government control. But among the polled elites, three times as many (47 percent) believed there is too much freedom. Just 1 in 5 responded that there is too much control.
Strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity? In broad-based surveys, 63 percent opposed rationing and 28 percent approved. When elites were surveyed, on the other hand, the results flipped: Fully 77 percent favored rationing, while only 22 percent said they were opposed.
Personal financial circumstances? Of the elite respondents, an overwhelming 74 percent reported that their finances are getting better. When the question was put to a cross section of the public, by contrast, just 20 percent believed they were better off.
As for trust in government, 70 percent of elites surveyed expressed confidence that government officials will do the right thing most of the time. Yet among the general public, surveys have shown for years that less than 25 percent has that kind of trust.
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That's pretty remarkable...
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The more traditional education, the easier to control
acesfull86
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It's an embarrassing level of hubris.
Also, how many of these Ivy Leaguers believe that having porous borders is not harmful or that a man can give birth? The education system is destroying common sense.
Intelligence and Education are two completely different things. In a lot of ways advanced degrees are compensation for the fact you can't stack up to the true giants in the IQ space
Ivy Leaguers are the type that don't press charges when minorities rob them.
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/01/us-news/columbia-university-dei-official-accused-of-plagiarism/amp/
A new diversity and equity leader at Columbia University is the latest academic being accused of plagiarism — for allegedly lifting material from more than 30 authors, as well as Wikipedia, for his doctoral dissertation, according to a bombshell report.
Alade McKen, Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s chief DEI officer, allegedly plagiarized about a fifth of his 163-page thesis, the Washington Free Beacon reported, citing an anonymous complaint filed with the Ivy League school.
More than two pages in the thesis “are a near-verbatim facsimile of Wikipedia’s entry of ‘Afrocentric education,’ which McKen never cites,” Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium wrote on X.
“Other pages lift paragraphs from well-known African scholars, including the University of Rwanda’s Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu, while making small tweaks to their prose, such as reordering certain clauses or changing a ‘were’ to a ‘was,’” Sibarium wrote.
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Counterpoint: approx 80% of the thesis was his own work…pretty good!
A new diversity and equity leader at Columbia University is the latest academic being accused of plagiarism — for allegedly lifting material from more than 30 authors, as well as Wikipedia, for his doctoral dissertation, according to a bombshell report.
Alade McKen, Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s chief DEI officer, allegedly plagiarized about a fifth of his 163-page thesis, the Washington Free Beacon reported, citing an anonymous complaint filed with the Ivy League school.
More than two pages in the thesis “are a near-verbatim facsimile of Wikipedia’s entry of ‘Afrocentric education,’ which McKen never cites,” Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium wrote on X.
“Other pages lift paragraphs from well-known African scholars, including the University of Rwanda’s Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu, while making small tweaks to their prose, such as reordering certain clauses or changing a ‘were’ to a ‘was,’” Sibarium wrote.
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Counterpoint: approx 80% of the thesis was his own work…pretty good!