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“Other than [as] football teams,” he observed, “universities are not popular with tea-party-type voters.”

Words of wisdom from a colleague of UD‘s.

Margaret Soltan, October 17, 2013 5:40AM
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6 Responses to ““Other than [as] football teams,” he observed, “universities are not popular with tea-party-type voters.””

  1. m a Says:

    At risk of being part of the small set (but perhaps larger than you think) that is the overlap of UD readers and tea party sympathizer, I would not assume deficit-driving university football teams are popular with the “tea-party-type” voters. “Big College Football” suffers the same core contradictions as “Big Government” and other rent-seeking “Big” constituents.

    Keep shining the flashlight on these rodents!

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    m a: Thanks for the comment. I’m sure I’ve got Tea Party readers – and I’m flattered that they read me.

    And you might be right that there’s actually NO aspect of universities that Tea Partiers have any time for.

  3. Stephen Karlson Says:

    Chris Lawrence or Mike Munger or Glenn Reynolds might think otherwise. The libertarian side of the Tea Party coalition is sometimes at odds with the End Times part.

  4. MikeM Says:

    So advocating fiscal responsibility is equated with being anti-intellectual? Pathetic.

    Buffoonery spouting tripe. If that qualifies as “words of wisdom” at GWU law school, those students are seriously screwed.

  5. Margaret Soltan Says:

    MikeM: So universities ARE popular with the Tea Party?

  6. AYY Says:

    I don’t know about anybody else but I come here mostly for the football coverage and the scandals.

    UD, aren’t you supposed to be an English professor? Didn’t you ever hear of Derrida or Foucault or Friere or feminist theorists? What do they say about knowledge? So before going after the Tea Party maybe the left ought to clean out the skeletons in their own closets. When it comes to anti-intellectualism, you’re going to have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat Leftist academics.

    Actually universities aren’t very popular at this site either. I seem to remember seeing something about your goal being to change things.

    If the Tea Party isn’t enamored with universities it’s for a good reason. Universities charge grandiose sums so that grad students or undergrads teach courses, while some big academic name gets a huge salary for writing about how oppressed she is by the patriarchy. At the same time universities don’t believe they can ever have enough diversity administrators, or that they can ever think of not treating male students as potential rapists, or do without their speech codes. And then heaven forbid they should ever hire a conservative. And at the end if a student doesn’t major in science or a technical field, he’ll come out deeply in debt knowing little more than when he came in.

    Maybe you and the Tea Party disagree on the details, but you ought to be pretty much on the same page with them when it comes to criticizing universities.

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