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He’s clearly pushing the anti republican agenda… SMH

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Yeah, I could certainly picture some right wing nut complaining it’s an attack on their conservative/Christian values

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This happened in India. Right wing nut, sure, but probably not Christian.

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That’s why I used a slash, but yeah, I unfortunately assumed USA

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I guess what Lemmy has in common with Reddit is that nobody reads the article. This happened in India.

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half of lemmy users are reddit migrants

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Yea, I agree with his statement but it was implied who he was talking about and when you add his social media posts showing a bias to a specific political party it was a no brainer and why would ask your students in a class to not vote for a particular political party.

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Now I know to avoid Unacademy.

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If “vote for someone educated” has you acting like this, you’re a buffoon.

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Another teacher also came out supporting him: https://newsroompost.com/india/babita-mam-calling-for-vote-to-educated-leader-goes-viral-after-karan-sangwan/5272032.html

She might also get fired unfortunately due to the pressure of andh-Bhakts (Blind-nationalists)

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How dare you call conservatives buffoons! What if they see your hurtful comment and have someone read it to them?

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Brother, he’s not saying he’s going to avoid that teacher, he’s saying he’s going to avoid the place that fired him for saying “Vote for educted leaders”. Don’t be a buffoon.

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Miss. He’s avoiding it now because they fired the guy

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Because they fired the guy for such an innocuous comment.

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Summarize what’s wrong with the US in one sentence:

Unacademy Teacher Fired for telling students to ‘Vote for Educated Leaders’ Remark during lecture

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Read the article and tell me what’s wrong with your post in one sentence.

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It’s a colony again?

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Bruh, this literally didn’t even happen in the US; it happened in India.

Even if you didn’t read the article, it’s in the article URL LMAO:

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Well, it sounds like something that would happen in US.

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It’s so incredibly sad how adults need to be reminded and told to vote for people that have a background with real education. I can’t believe people don’t care about education when it comes to voting for someone to be put in your government. I feel sorry for those people who don’t. You know it’s the people who don’t that have lives that revolve around politics and consume it everyday

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Religion and education are two things that violate the law of supply and demand. The less of either that you have, the less you want.

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It turns out that the more you know about the world, the more you tend to lean left.

It’s no wonder the right wants to keep people as ignorant as possible.

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Identifying left and right is also ignorant. There is no balance to the thought process.

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Traditional education !== knowing about the world

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. You know and I know that’s exactly what he means

It means it pisses off GOP’s

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Yeah no the whole “Universities are leftist brainwashing stations” is the most bullshit take I’ve heard and almost always comes from people who haven’t been within 15 feet of a college.

Literally most of the shit I was taught was literally neoliberal capitalist-friendly stuff mandated by the states requirements for the degree. A ton of it was helpful in terms of building effective critical thinking skills but if anything the only instructors that ever introduced any sort of political slant was usually the right wingers or religious people. Literally had an instructor intentionally frame parts of our philosophy class in a way that made more pro-religious philosophy appear to be the correct answer. Students that spoke out and tried to say they favored things like determinism for instance were often shut down by the instructor trying to make us look at things like free will in a way that was more favorable to religion. Later found out after the class the dude was a former pastor.

And even the few openly left-leaning instructors were usually just generic neoliberal democrat voting cut-outs that for some reason Republicans and other fringe lunatics pretend are leftist-communist-extremist-goblins.

The vast majority of instructors just simply didn’t even make their politics affiliation apparent. There’s tons I couldn’t even remotely gauge just simply because they only taught and talked about class material.

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Educated means someone other than you.

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I’d rather they are educated in facts and not feelings.

The facts they teach in school have been rigorously tested for centuries. They aren’t just some opinion of an angry Youtuber. If you don’t agree with them feel free to debunk them using science and receive your Nobel price.

That you don’t get how most facts support left leaning policies says more about you than about the left.

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Does the word “left” mean science to you?

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No. It means ‘science, bitch’

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We have found Tom McDonald’s Lemmy account

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Tell me you don’t know what the work “educated” means in a truly demented political rant without admitting you don’t know what the word means.

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Do you think the guy running his own lawn mowing business would be a better surgeon than the girl who spent 25 years in STEM studies, medical school, and residency?

You imbeciles think being a representative/senator/president is like volunteering at the after school bake sale. And that’s why we have such shitty politicians.

Good luck with that lawn mowing guy trying to remove your colon cancer.

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Medicine has a clear goal- politics do not. That is one of many reasons that good governance should not be looked for only in academia. A really simple example, if I run for senate should I campaign on policies that help my state but cause diffuse harm nationally or should I campaign on policies that may cause specific harm to my state but are good nationally? I’m not asking which you would win with, I’m asking which is being a good senator? Should I respect the will of their constituents if it conflicts with my personal morality? If I’m a member of group which feels underrepresented in or betrayed by higher-level academia should members of that group vote in a member of academia regardless? Even within a technocracy, ignoring voters, there still has to be aligned goals with the “gatekeepers” to be included in the technocracy- otherwise they will see your conclusions and deem you wrong, unfit. People can be fully informed, acting in 100% good faith, and equally intelligent and still disagree on moral principles and therefore will strongly differ in conclusions.

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This is the dumbest comment I’ve seen on lemmy yet.

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This is the dumbest comment I’ve seen on lemmy yet.

Well the first part is spot on…

Actually, there are numerous trades and other careers where you dont go to college and do very well.

The second part, not so much…

But please keep voting for people with degrees in History because thats working out awesomely.

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I seen a couple of these typical youtube commenters. “Left-leaning university”, shut the fuck up jeez. They are either completely lost here, or intentionally trolling, or pursuing their victim complex by venturing into enemy territory.

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Sure, let’s not vote for the person that dedicated years on studying history, sociology, economics and political science (or “social studies” if you prefer). Let’s instead vote for the person that stepped on everyone’s heads to make sure he and his company are successful! What could go wrong? Running a country is exactly the same as running a factory, no?

And I’m sorry that so many universities are heavily left-leaning. I’m sure that if the right stops burning books at every corner there would be more right-leaning universities (tho politics should always stay out of classes in my opinion).

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Eh, more like you want law makers to prove they’re smart enough to understand how the law works. Honestly, a high school education doesn’t prove that. It’s not that someone with only a highschool education can’t teach themselves law, only that they’ll have to find a different way to prove they have the ability to be a good administrator. Even just a college degree doesn’t guarantee the person is all that competent, but it’s better than no degree. It sucks that the world is that way, but any other education system just changes exactly where the lines in the sand are for quickly judging people.

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Plumbers. He’s talking about people who’ve done plumbing appreticeships. It seems pretty obvious.

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