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Populist_Prole

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6. That was just the meme du-jour by the corporatists. It has since outlived its usefulness to them

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:15 PM

Dec 2012

It was nothing but a red-herring like the gag: See THIS hand? ( let's askee gaze at said hand ) Well watch out for the OTHER one! ( hits askee with other hand )

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why education is no longer the great equalizer [View all] xchrom Dec 2012 OP

Oh I agree no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #1

And that is exactly the reason many of use EC Dec 2012 #3

morlochs and eloi phantom power Dec 2012 #7

**cough**bullshit**cough** Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #9

I was there. He told me. It was 1985 before republicans stopped no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #10

OK ... I am mistaken Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #14

The school is defunct now. no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #15

We stopped trying to create a well-informed citizenry baldguy Dec 2012 #2

k/r marmar Dec 2012 #4

K&R woo me with science Dec 2012 #5

That was just the meme du-jour by the corporatists. It has since outlived its usefulness to them Populist_Prole Dec 2012 #6

not the equalizer in terms of wealth, but the equalizer in terms of power CreekDog Dec 2012 #8

never was. a few proles making it into the ranks of the elite doesn't make education an equalizer. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #11

would you say being uneducated makes one just as powerful? CreekDog Dec 2012 #12

in some ways yes, in some ways not. if by 'uneducated' you mean not having a college education. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #13