We here at the Politically Incorrect Novel Blog don’t have much intellectual respect for college professors. Not, at least, the ones who teach subjects other than math, physics, engineering, and other real subjects. (P.S. I was a history major).
Today it’s your turn.
Are you smarter than a Harvard professor?
If your answer was “no” then you were probably thinking that I was talking about a math professor or somebody who teaches a real subject.
Actually, I was thinking about Elizabeth Warren.
Here’s what Michael Graham has to say about the intellectually-challenged prof:
Ready for your Massachusetts IQ test? Which sounds smarter to you:
A) Building a pipeline to bring oil from Canada, or B) Continuing to import oil from terror-sponsoring nations like Saudi Arabia.
A) Killing jobs in the middle of a recession, or B) Putting 20,000 blue-collar American workers to work.
Running for U.S. Senate as, A) The candidate in favor of American jobs and energy independence, or B) As the candidate who opposes them.
If you picked A on all of the above, congratulations. You’re smarter than a Harvard professor! And her supporters.
Well, that wasn’t too tough, now was it?
Here’s the kicker:
This isn’t about partisan debate. There are legitimate points to debate on the economy and energy policy. But just shouting “No war for oil!” isn’t a debate. It’s adamant stupidity.
By the way, why aren’t we shouting “No war for oil!” anymore? If you really believed that, you’d support domestic drilling and the Canadian pipeline, right?
Instead, the Liz Warren left starts with “No war for oil,” then “No oil from Canada,” “No nukes,” “No coal” and then the inevitable, “Hey — wait! My iPad just died and there’s no electricity to charge it. Where’s my oil?!”
Remember: They’re the smart ones.
Well, look at that! Being smarter than a Harvard prof* isn’t so tough after all!
I wonder if they’ll give you tenure?
* A prof, that is, in one of the soft (i.e. stupid) subjects.
In this post you assert that professors in physics, math, and engineering are deserving of intellectual respect. You asserted this in an earlier post, also. I have a PhD in engineering from what was then a top 10 school in my field of study. In my experience engineering departments are strongly supportive of politically correct views if it earns them more research dollars from the federal government.
I’m sure they are. But there’s no such thing as deconstructionist engineering or anything like that.
I don’t care about, say, Andrew Wiles’s opinion on affirmative action, marriage redefinition, or President Obama. But the guy did prove Fermat’s Last Theorem. Can’t take that away from him. His paper(s) on the subject weren’t BS. He didn’t use fancy jargon to conceal the poverty of his thoughts.
Heck, case in point would be Grigori Perelman. His views on many issues are, reportedly, a bit nutty. But he did solve the Poincare conjecture, so into the pantheon he goes right there with Wiles.
At least the STEM profs, no matter their views can teach you something worthwhile.