This is the notorious professionalized liberal making machine
The Secretary of the US Department of Transportation is an airhead lawyer and former reality-TV “star” with no qualifications in transportation, Sean Duffy, but hey, you knew because he has a high appointment in the Trump administration that he was unqualified and incompetent. At least it’s better than his previous sinecure as the acting administrator of NASA! The last I heard about Duffy he was advising us to take advantage of the long delays at airports by doing calisthenics in the terminals. That’s just the kind of guy he is.
What I didn’t know is that he roped in a bunch of corporate sponsors who wanted to curry favor with the Trump administration, like Boeing, Toyota, Shell, United Airlines, Comcast, Royal Caribbean, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Lyft to fund his summer vacation. He, his wife, and his 9 kids got into a gigantic RV with a following camera crew to drive all around the US for 6 weeks or so. Boeing and Toyota each coughed up a million dollars to pay for the extended joy ride.
I haven’t had a vacation in years. Maybe I’d be able to if just one of those corporations gave me a million dollars. Unfortunately, I’m not a corrupt opportunist like Duffy, and don’t have any influence on our government.
So anyway, one of the purported justifications for this trip was to visit colleges, for his kids who were of age to enter college. They visited Harvard. His daughter Paloma wants to go to school there. Duffy has opinions.
Sean Duffy tells his daughter she cannot go to Harvard because they have "professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls and corrupt their minds" pic.twitter.com/opCB02jPEv
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After declaring that they were a highly conservative family and that they had raised their kids in a strictly Catholic environment, he announces that she cannot go to Harvard because he didn’t believe that Harvard offers a well-rounded education.
His wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, declares We spent a lot of time nurturing and providing formation for our kids, giving them an environment where they are steeped in faith and values, so the idea of dropping her off at a place where they would undermine that or undo all those things makes me worried.
Because he is a profoundly stupid man, Sean chimes in And again I don’t want them to get one viewpoint, I want them to get a lot of different viewpoints, but I don’t want them fed only one viewpoint that is contrary to the way my kids were raised,
completely oblivious to the fact that he has just contradicted his wife and himself in one sentence. Because he is truly, deeply, stupid and unthinking. He then claims that Harvard has professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls and corrupt their minds
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Uh, I’m not the greatest fan of Harvard (I think they are over-rated and too rich for their own good, and that we have numerous great institutions of higher education all over the country), but Harvard is not particularly liberal, and they are not a machine with the goal of churning out liberal students. The liberalism is a side-effect of getting a lot of different viewpoints
. Harvard has a lot of prestige, a lot of money, and has a privileged status in the world; if any of my kids had had the opportunity to go there, I would have encouraged them, although it probably would have bankrupted us. Duffy wouldn’t have that problem. He’s just an ignorant goober attached to an administration that hates education.
I am wondering about poor Paloma. What shithole school would Sean and Rachel like to ship their daughter off to? I hope it’s not Liberty University, but that’s probably not Catholic enough for them. Sean is a graduate of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, a private Catholic college which I wouldn’t describe as a shithole, but it probably doesn’t have the status the Duffys would want. Notre Dame? Bad news there, they expose their students to a healthy diverse student body, and she’d probably end up learning about feminism and equality and reason, all those things the Duffy family opposes.
I’d recommend that she attend the University of Minnesota Morris, if Harvard is off the table. We don’t have a professionalized liberalizing process here, we just let students be who they want to be, and help them get the education they need. Paloma might just fit in perfectly here.
This current regime is nothing more than one dumbass after another. It’s an indictment of this country that these people have any power over our lives at all.
I looked at the list of top Catholic Universities. Georgetown is at the top, but honestly the list is pretty impressive group of universities that have real curriculum- so probably will make her a little more liberal.
Coin toss on whether or not it’s Georgetown (near where daddy works) or College of St. Mary’s in Omaha (deep red state in the middle of nowhere- though they would be surprised at how blue Omaha is to the rest of the state).
The first question to ask is “what does she want for a major”? Sure, someone that age probably hasn’t made a final decision on that, but knowing what fields are of interest should guide the choice of school.
Please, give Harvard some cred as the only big U which fought back against the Trumpistas (even if they are the only U which could afford to).
Since they’re worried about Paloma being corrupted at a university, perhaps they should home school her. That might not be great foundation for her as an adult, but she won’t be corrupted by different points of view that are “wrong” according to the Duffy’s.
PZ: “We don’t have a professionalized liberalizing process here, we just let students be who they want to be”
But that is the professionalized liberalizing process. The Duffys are looking for a university which lets students be who their parents want them to be.
I went to De Paul U. way back in the dark ages and got an excellent education without any god bothering. My grandson is starting his 3rd year at U of Dayton and he doing very well for himself. Both schools were founded by Jesuits who seem to be more interested in educating their students to be prepared for life as a well-rounded adults rather than trying to turn them into priests and nuns.
I knew he had Road Rules experience, but Wikipedia says he was also on a season of The Real World. His wife was on a previous season of The Real World and they met on Road Rules. Ain’t that sweet.
The season his wife Rachel Campos starred in featured Pedro Zamora who was dealing with HIV. That may have been one of the more personal real life representations of that at the time. Unfortunately the infamous “Puck” was in that cast too.
I guess Duffy and his wife are trying to relive their Road Rules glory days.
Shorter version of his, and his wife’s objection – “We want education to be like studying the Bible, or its history. Everything should be hand fed and curated, so that only our version of it is represented as truth, and all contradictions are explained away as attempts to undermine that truth.” This, in my experience, seems to be how every single damn evangelical, or “strict, the Bible is true-ists”, always function when dealing with everything.
Simple, have her attend pragerU! That will indoctrinate her with exactly what dumbfuck duffy really wants.