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Thursday, June 9. 2011

An "apathetic Liberal" sees the light

At Pajamas, How a Teachers’ Rally Made Me Anti-Education.

It's a remarkable photo-essay. He says:

Horrors! I was taken aback by my own thoughts. How could I be so cruel? What evil right-wing influence was making me think this way?

I went through a similar transformation years ago. I am heartened to see that some are still capable of real "critical thinking." Perhaps all Liberals are not hopelessly committed Communists. My main take-home from the pics, however, is that these are not well-indoctrinated ideologues - they are just greedy for my money.

There is no end-point to the Leftist's desire for the fruits of my labor. It is always "more."

This has nothing to do with education.

Image from the article.

ED addendum: related: Elites Gone Bad - What America needs is a better class of left-winger.

Another addendum at Powerline: Long Live High School English Teachers. Photo from that piece below:

What's her pension invested in? Not-for-profit windmills? What about your greed, honey?

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#1 DrTorch on 2011-06-09 16:40 (Reply)

I take it that the woman holding her orange sign is a public school English teacher.

#2 Jack Coupal on 2011-06-09 17:39 (Reply)

It always amazes me how people do not recognize how inter- connected and dependent the world is. Too many people do not understand the basics of civilized living and what it takes to have those services of water, sewer, garbage, lights, communications and transportation. (Modern Central sanitation is less than 150 years old.) How do they think their food got to the grocery store? They don't think what their life would be like if they got their political wishes and corporations disappeared. They would be serf working for the Lord in the local castle.

#3 JP Blickenstaff on 2011-06-09 22:32 (Reply)

I saw a little of that footage from the Wisconsin fiasco, and I could swear that I saw her with a bullhorn, exhorting the crowd. She seemed to be dressed differently then, though. And when I saw her in this pic, I thought "geez, if she really cared about the environment, she wouldn't be shaving those armpits. How much bigger is her carbon footprint because of that.

But then again, if she had bushy pits, I would likely make fun of her for that, too. So I got nothin on this, really.

#4 Dangerous Dean on 2011-06-10 00:51 (Reply)

yikes, a teacher??

she shoulda run spell check on that sign.

#5 chasmatic (Link) on 2011-06-10 02:49 (Reply)

Was involved in a discussion with a hard left liberal the other night that continued on an e-mail exchange.
Her words were that EXCLUDING FACTS AND FIGURES, the republicans were abysmal on creating jobs. Obama's intentions are wonderful and those opposing his agenda are racists. She is in her late 60's living in MA....her mind will not be opened, but she will vote in the next potus election. God help the USA.

#6 J on 2011-06-10 09:50 (Reply)

Orange Sign Holder--"Q'orianka Kilcher, known for her role as Pocahontas in the film "The New World", protests at the White House in Washington." From here:
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/celebrity_photos/celebrity_photos_june_GKfEBdyuQbr8OhxL4kIk7L?photo_num=14

#7 Sam L. on 2011-06-10 10:08 (Reply)

Q'orianka [my spell checker said it was OK] was a lot younger when she appeared in Malick's "The New World" and actually attractive. Then.

So, she's not a PS teacher but spells like one.

#7.1 Jack Coupal on 2011-06-10 14:03 (Reply)

Meh. Where I live, because of budget constraints universities are being run like corporations. Local kids with 4.0 GPA are being denied entrance in favor of high tuition $ foreign students.

#8 Commander Clopfelter on 2011-06-10 14:39 (Reply)

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