September 9, 2016 at 4:22 p.m.
Handing out Confederate diplomas
Handing out Confederate diplomas
This is how it works. First, the bloated education establishment bellows about how everybody - and that's everybody - needs to go to college or they will wind up being losers in life.
Those colleges would be the ones that, in most places, have been charging outrageously high tuitions, which continue to escalate. And, since you're a poor sap, you're supposed to borrow tens and tens of thousands of dollars so you can pay these beloved and sacred institutions - and, of course, the bloated education establishment.
Inconveniently, this has created a student-loan affordability crisis, and now the Democrats want you to know that if you just vote for Hillary and her ilk, they are going to heavily subsidize those loans and tuitions so the bloated education establishment can become even more bloated.
Oh, we forgot to mention, Hillary and the federal government are going to pay for those subsidies by raising taxes on, you guessed it, you, and on the people who provide the jobs you want to have when you graduate from said sacred institution.
In regular math, this is called a zero-sum game, where the government gives you money with one hand and takes it with the other.
Already, of course, after years of government overspending and overregulation, jobs have been created in inverse proportion to the number of graduating students: the more students there are, the less jobs we have.
What to do?
Maybe go back and get another degree. That might work, who knows? And you can get another loan to do it.
All of this is just another way for the government and its elite supporters to suck money out of the private sector and the middle class and take it for themselves. The student loan program is nothing but a money laundering scheme.
Anyway, while you're racking up that debt, at least you'll be safe because most colleges and universities have jumped on the bandwagon of providing safe spaces and trigger warnings for students who might be offended by the free exchange of ideas.
This is what happens when the government takes care of half the population and makes them government dependent: People become dependent on the government not only for their livelihoods but for their thoughts, and any nongovernment thoughts become "hurtful."
That a generation would come along that is opposed to the First Amendment is hardly surprising, given such a world. So now at least, thanks to the bloated education establishment, they can sit in their sheltered little safe spaces, where free speech doesn't apply, and continue to nurse on mother government.
Then, a few weeks ago, came a startling open letter for this day and age. The University of Chicago sent a letter to incoming students saying safe spaces would not be approved of.
Here's what Jay Ellison, dean of students at the University of Chicago, wrote, in part: "Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called trigger warnings, we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual safe spaces where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own."
A lot of people were tempted to stand up and cheer this bold resistance to censorship in academia, but others were having none of it. Some bemoaned the state of the university landscape today, saying that such a letter even had to be sent was reason for despair, not cheer.
After all, if we live in a nation where standing up for free speech is a maverick idea, well, there can be no joy in Mudville.
Then, inconveniently, as The Chicago Tribune and others pointed out, the University of Chicago does provide safe spaces, after all, and in fact Jay Ellison, the guy who wrote the letter, is a part of what the university's website calls its LGBTQ Safe Space Ally Network.
OK then. So why write the letter? Was it a publicity stunt?
Probably, in part. But more than likely the letter was meant to reassure parents worried about sending their children to another gulag training camp, aka college, to places where young people are taught that, if the constitution offends them, they can simply dispense with it. And it was probably aimed at the media to try and tell America not to worry.
America is worried, though, and that's why there's such a powerful movement against elites this year, including bloated education elites. People are getting tired of higher education's money laundering schemes, which is washing hard-earned money right out of their hands, only to see those colleges help develop a generation that seems determined to rewrite the constitution when they are the generation of record.
People are getting tired of seeing their children receive diplomas to nowhere, while the fat cats of the education establishment live their gilded lives.
So there are no cheers from us for the University of Chicago. It was a deceptive letter, crafted for whatever hare-brained reason, but in the end it only exposed that the university is in fact committed to safe-space intolerance. The real cheers should go to those who have finally decided to take on the deans of higher learning, otherwise known as robber barons, who are out to sell the constitution down the river for a share of the government student-loan pie.
But at least they will give us all a diploma, worth about as much as a Confederate dollar, these days.
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