Iz it coz he iz black, Monty?Originally Posted by Monty92
There's not a single part of me that wouldn't be absolutely overjoyed if Lammy got Jo Cox'ed.
I don't know if he has kids, I don't know if he has a sick parent who desperately relies upon the physical and emotional support of their son.
I just want him to get deaded
Went to Harvard Law School so he ain't stupid. What's he done?
He's clearly a fúcking genius.
Looooool. That’s like something from Brass Eye.
I do get sick of this notion that where somebody went to school or university is proof of intelligence. It is - apart from anything else - fantastically reductive.
The other day I was thinking about it and realised that many of the people whose intelligence I most respect have never been near a university. Equally, I know a number of people with PhDs I wouldn't leave alone with a box of matches.
Much of what we laughingly call education consists of box-ticking exercises and is in and of itself no proof of intelligence whatsoever.
But you aren't making the argument that people with degrees are not more likely to be intelligent than those that do not, are you?
Because you know that isn't true.
No, I'm not making that argument. There is obviously a level of intelligence required to get past a certain point of educational attainment that some people simply do not have and thus will never get to university.
Excluding that section of society, however, my experience is that I've found exactly the same number of stupid people with degrees as without.
It's more that people's apparent definition of "intelligence" is far too narrow.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Gracious me, yes. And of course the whole thing is exacerbated by Comrade Blair's insistence that everyone have a degree. Within my own family there are people with degrees who struggle to operate anything more complex than a tea towel.
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"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
The real point is good breeding, I think. The idea being that if parents, let us say, are well-made enough to arrange decent billets at top educational establishments for their brood, however they do it, then that ought to count for something. Ought to count for alot, in fact. It strongly suggests that they and theirs are of the right sort, regardless of the kids perhaps all being thick ****s.
The acceptance and/or attendance at a good school is the thing, rather than the performance once there. Or even before and after.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
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