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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Mar 3, 2009 18:35:32 GMT -5
forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=33991Man, I wish I were lying. But David Chalice of the UKIP party is actually there, arguing with the rest of us. The trigger was a letter he wrote mocking multiculturalism and the practice of some Muslims marrying multiple wives. It's sad really.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 3, 2009 18:42:45 GMT -5
What the fuck kind of academia does this guy envisage? I don't recall any of my lecturers pausing in the middle of pushing curly arrows around a benzene ring to say "by the way, vote Labour".
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Post by mistermuncher on Mar 3, 2009 18:49:51 GMT -5
Contempt for academia is a common feature of UKIP, the BNP, even the average Richard Littlejohn fan. There's this pervasive notion that education, higher education in particular, is in fact "social engineering", or turns out people who "know nothing about real life", a topic which the sundry corner-boys and men in pubs of the aforementioned apparently are divine authority. See also "common sense", the catchall euphemism for whatever odious assault on basic human rights is their issue de jour.
You'll see the same shit from Fundies, too. A university graduate knows nothing next to Jeb, the son of incestuous union who reads his (illustrated) Bible between episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard, but hates queers, and commies, and nigras. See any thread on RR, CARM, Freepers about college.
That they are so very threatened by an educated response tells it's own tale.
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Post by devilschaplain2 on Mar 3, 2009 19:02:57 GMT -5
UKIP? Aren't those the asswipes that even David Cameron called "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists"? That's pretty bad...
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 3, 2009 19:04:44 GMT -5
It makes me wonder if they're stocked entirely by people who were turned down by every uni they applied for, and people who did go to uni but are cynically exploiting this mentality for their own gains. As for "common sense", when I realised it translated as "watch me make up shit to support my argument" (rather than the more familiar "walking out in front of traffic isn't a good idea" definition) I saw everything a lot clearer.
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Post by mistermuncher on Mar 3, 2009 19:06:47 GMT -5
The BNP for people who don't have the stones to be in the BNP. Too crazy for politics town, too politics for crazy town. They've as much chance of forming the next government as I do.
When even Robert Kilroy-Silk leaves, it's fairly obvious they're fecked.
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Post by MaybeNever on Mar 3, 2009 23:29:25 GMT -5
OH NOES THAR IS LIBRULS IN UNIVARSTIES!
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