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The American Conservative: Dreher on LSU canceling classes
Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:24 pm
Great article overall:
Amen.
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You’d think that the media elites would by now have learned the cost to their own credibility of not understanding this country. But they keep being surprised. Nobody expects a New York Times editorial writer to agree with the decision to cancel college classes because of a football game. But one would like to think that a man of the world such as himself would have enough sense to think about why this decision might have been made, and what it says about cultural difference. I suspect if the LSU Board of Supervisors had cancelled classes for Transgender Day Of Remembrance, the New York Times editorial board would have wet its collective pants with delight.
If you plan to vote for Donald Trump in November, do me a favor, and think of Binyamin Appelbaum and the LSU Tigers when you do.
What Appelbaum does not know is that cancelling classes was a prudent decision, because none of the students would have shown up anyway. Governor John Bel Edwards cancelled his inaugural ball because he knew that everybody would be at the game. He’s close to Coach O; he wanted to be at the game too. This made perfect sense to everybody here. Who wants to go to an inaugural ball when the Tigers are playing for the national championship? Nobody! If Appelbaum had the slightest bit of cultural awareness and sensitivity, he would recognize that not everywhere in this big and diverse country has the same values as the elites of the Boston-NYC-DC corridor. That’s fine; America needs people who graduate from Ivy League schools and go on to write economics editorials for The New York Times. But she also needs her Ed Orgerons, the hard-fighting Cajun from South Lafourche. She also needs her Joe Burrows, a white boy from struggling southeastern Ohio. She also needs her sons like Clyde Edwards-Helaire, a short, tough-as-nails black kid from Baton Rouge who fought his way to become one of the best tailbacks in the nation.
Maybe America needs men like that more than she needs Ivy League editorial writers for The New York Times. Who knows? I couldn’t possibly say.
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Binyamin Appelbaum View Of The World. Appelbaum, an economist by training, sees no utility in college football, and thinks we’re all a bunch of idiot hicks for loving the LSU Tigers as much as we do. But I tell you, on your deathbed, you will not regret having not spent more time at the office, climbing the meritocratic ladder, but you might well regret not spending more time tailgating at Tiger Stadium (or whatever your local equivalent is, reader). The Binyamin Appelbaums of the world think that life is a syllogism and a spreadsheet; the people of Louisiana, by contrast, know that it’s really a poem and a parade.
Amen.
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Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:28 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Binyamin Appelbaum
Sounds like a prick. Probably says prick things.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:32 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Binyamin Appelbaum
Is anyone surprised that this guy hates Southerners? We're useless idiots to people like him until we're needed to fight wars for Israel.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:36 pm to SCLibertarian
Seems there’s several idiots in evidence.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:38 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Binyamin Appelbaum
I bet this guy is a lot of fun to hang out with.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:47 pm to Big Scrub TX
What religion is Binyamin Applebaum?
Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:54 pm to Big Scrub TX
I cannot imagine who would downvote this!
Posted on 1/15/20 at 6:55 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
He’s from a tribe called quest. You’ve heard about his sister, Bonita Applebum.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 7:03 pm to Big Scrub TX
Guy has no idea he’s a Southpark character
Posted on 1/15/20 at 7:59 pm to Big Scrub TX
The Tobias Funke of soft "journalism" and pseudo-economics. A veritable analrapist, who just blue himself all over Twitter. World-class intellectual.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 8:10 pm to Big Scrub TX
Good for Rod, Mr. "Crunchy Conservative"
I went to high school with Rod. He was pretty liberal back then.
I went to high school with Rod. He was pretty liberal back then.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 9:09 pm to Ace Midnight
At LSMSA?
I member when he was a DJ.
I member when he was a DJ.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 9:15 pm to Bullfrog
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At LSMSA?
Maybe. Who's asking?
Posted on 1/15/20 at 9:43 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Maybe America needs men like that more than she needs Ivy League editorial writers for The New York Times. Who knows? I couldn’t possibly say.
Ain’t that the fricking truth.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 9:43 pm to Big Scrub TX
Are they adding two days to the end of the semester or are they just lost days? If the latter I totally agree with the guy and that’s absurd, people pay good money to attend this school for an education. This is short changing them for an entertainment event which is nothing but a distraction from what should be the core focus of a university, academic excellence and educating its students.
I disagree with the idea of sports being in colleges in the first place unless purely from a recreational standpoint. For many schools they far too often plow money into the football team rather than the biology department, they shift the focus of students away from their books and towards an entertainment event. We are the only nation that does this.
That said I had great time watching it, Joe Burrow is a machine, and Geaux Tigers.
I disagree with the idea of sports being in colleges in the first place unless purely from a recreational standpoint. For many schools they far too often plow money into the football team rather than the biology department, they shift the focus of students away from their books and towards an entertainment event. We are the only nation that does this.
That said I had great time watching it, Joe Burrow is a machine, and Geaux Tigers.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 9:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I disagree with the idea of sports being in colleges in the first place unless purely from a recreational standpoint. For many schools they far too often plow money into the football team rather than the biology department, they shift the focus of students away from their books and towards an entertainment event. We are the only nation that does this.
Athletic departments are separate from the schools you idiot. They’re private entities and they bring more exposure to the schools than anything else. More exposure means more students more students means more tuition money.
Posted on 1/15/20 at 9:51 pm to DavidTheGnome
Universities aren’t short on cash. They’re inundated with it.
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