Oh good LORD! Just realized something important thanks to http://www.unz.com/gnxp/liberals-and-the-intelligent-stand-by-free-speech/ … Why are college students turning into hateful fools...?
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@razibkhan post, support for censorship is very strongly correlated with being a damned idiot (low wordscore).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev Funny you say that, came up in convo here last night too. -
@asherahresearch Recurring Instapundit theme is that subsidizing the markers of status doesn't raise status, it degrades the markers. -
@St_Rev High school for instance, pre-comprehensive schools -
@asherahresearch What is a pre-comprehensive school? -
@St_Rev Then they started democratizing the schools, and the "vocational track" was added. -
@asherahresearch OIC. Yeah, red queen's race in terms of real effect but ever-expanding opportunity for jobs and power for progs. -
@St_Rev Exactly. Then expansion of graduate schools, and so on. - 2 more replies
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@St_Rev This makes a lot of sense; although the idiocies I read most about are at elite schools that probably aren't affected by that? -
@Meaningness True, but it explains Tumblr and Twitter SJ, and maybe some backwash via those routes. -
@St_Rev more bigger eternal September pool -
@Meaningness Yeah. Add in esteem-based schooling and you have tons of fools who think they're entitled to be elites. -
@Meaningness Entitled fools are hardly new, but the demographic seems to be growing rapidly.
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@St_Rev Would this retro-predict an increase in censorious campus activity during post-GI Bill influx? Or was that qualitatively different? -
@NineBandedBooks Good question. I don't have access to the kind of data one would need to answer that. -
@NineBandedBooks This only covers 1967-2012: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_302.60.asp … went from 25% to 41%
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@St_Rev not just that: you have to do a lot more to stand out. Squeaky wheels get the grease -
@drethelin That's an effect that doesn't necessarily change on a per-capita basis. Crudely: go from 1 university w/N students to 100 univs. -
@drethelin If dynamics don't otherwise change, you have 100x nutcases but dispersed among 100x the population.
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