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[Seattle Husker]

I have spoken about my experiences at Yale. They have always either been about:

1) How ******* liberal the place is
2) How patronizing the liberals there can be to minorities
3) The "Clarence Thomas" treatment I get from liberals who told me the only reason I got in to Yale was because of affirmative action
4) Providing guidance to posters who's kids are considering the Ivy League.

Again, the Ivy League and Yale specifically frequently come up as topics on West Mall (as do topics dealing with national security and intelligence). I happen to bring a unique perspective to those discussions because I went there. I am proud of my time there, just as much as my time at UT, and just as much as my time in the Navy. You seem to want to marginalize and attack me for it.

There is a search box on the top right corner of the website Husker. Find me an example of whatever the hell you're talking about.

You've mentioned Yale 57 times in your posts (1.4% of your total). I don't have the time or energy to look for examples. Your insight into your experience is insightful, particularly #4. Like Trump's claims, my intention is never to marginalize it but also avoid over-exaggerating it as if it carries some level of intellectual superiority "trump" card. You should be lauded for getting into such an esteemed MBA program.

 

[texas_ex2000]

Seattle,

As far as debating issues on WM, it doesn't f'in matter where anyone goes to school. It's about the merits and logic of your arguments and the quality of your facts.

 

[Seattle Husker]

Seattle,

As far as debating issues on WM, it doesn't f'in matter where anyone goes to school. It's about the merits and logic of your arguments and the quality of your facts.

On that we agree.

 

[mchammer]

Speaking of bringing experience to This Board, if the subject of Hammer Time comes up, you know where to find me.

 

[Brad Austin]

Hammer Time comes up, you know where to find me.

I had a few pairs of Hammer pants and a wardrobe of Cavaricci's. That's akin to a PhD in Hammer Time.

 

[BrntOrngStmpeDe]

I had a few pairs of Hammer pants and a wardrobe of Cavaricci's. That's akin to a PhD in Hammer Time.

Yeah baby!! 2 different colors of Cav's and 3 different pairs of parachute pants. All 80's...All the time.

 

[texas_ex2000]

On that [It's about the merits and logic of your arguments and the quality of your facts] we agree.

Find me an example of whatever the hell you're talking about.

I don't have the time or energy to look for examples.

 

[Seattle Husker]

Like I said, you've clearly mentioned Yale often. I don't have the time or desire to prove to you that you sometimes leverage your educational background as a "trump" card. Given our interactions recently, even with solid evidence I have no confidence that you would acquiesce this point. In turn, we'll have to agree to disagree and move on.

 

[texas_ex2000]

Like I said, you've clearly mentioned Yale often.

1.4% of my posts? 57 times out of 4,200 posts and the 12 years since I went there? This thread alone has 39 posts. How many threads do you think those came out of? And most of those mentions were about Shelia Jackson Lee, Hillary Clinton, Bush, or these millennials winning for safe spaces.

Given our interactions recently, even with solid evidence I have no confidence that you would acquiesce this point.

That is chicken$h!t. Attacking someone's education is a personal attack because it has no relevance to any argument. Yet you make personal attacks on people when you start losing arguments. Then you derail threads because of it. But you won't provide any evidence to support your personal attack. Complete cowardliness.

Don't make personal attacks on people Husker. Make arguments based on facts.

 

[texas_ex2000]

I just looked at my posts. They were all about Shelia Jackson Lee, disappoint in Meryl Streep, Hillary Clinton not being able to use ignorance of the Law as a crutch, complaining about Ivy League snowflakes, and providing information to posters who's kids were considering going there. SH's attacks actually inflate the number.

This is the very first time I mentioned it. It was a response to a poster 2222Horn the night of Obama's victory in 2008:

To all my classmates from UT that I've kept in touch with and for all the work they put in the past year. We spread out after graduating from UT, went out to do bigger and better things but never lost part of idealism that we had back in college (even during the Bush years). We lived through when Clayton Williams told rape victims to "lie back and enjoy it" in college. We fought for different causes over the last 15 years: lobbied and fought for victims' rights, for stem cell research, against the torture memo. A lot of us have taught or are still teaching in college. We're white, black, Latino and Asian.

Can you believe it happened?!? Wow!

Paul (Yale Neuro)
Jessica (Yale Med)
JP (Stanford GSB)
Mary (Columbia English Phd)
Audranne (Yale Law)
Brent (UT Law)
Sharon (Baylor Med)
Chris (Yale History)
Scott (UVA Law)
Steve (Yale Law)
Kerry (Georgetown Law)
Natalie (Harvard Kennedy)

Liberals in a state where being liberal wasn't cool.

On the other side--the folks that mock us:

Mark Steyn (Canadian, no college degree)
Glenn Beck (ex alchoholic, no college degree)
Rush Limbaugh (little drug issue, no college degree)
Matt Drudge (341/365 in high school, no college degree)
Sean Hannity (no college degree)

texas_ex here...BA Economics '00 and Yale MBA '07. Also Lieutenant USN '01-'05 with two combat deployments to Iraq.

2222...I can't believe you're such an elitist. We all, pubs and dems, want our kids to go to the best schools, get a great education, exercise their intellect, and become cultured. Unfortunately, your post is a prime example that they don't teach good ole fashion character in those elite institutions of learning. My mom and dad didn't go to a fancy ivy league school, but they taught me humility, respect, hospitality, compassion, and hard work. My dad would be rolling over in his grave if he heard me flaunting my degrees to others after a victory like this. It's this elitist **** that polarizes the country and screws everything up in the first place.

Have some class.

 

[Seattle Husker]

I went back through this thread and realized I transposed this with other threads. You didn't bring up Yale thus I should not have referenced it. Sorry.

We've both brought citations and facts to this argument. You've chosen to summarily dismiss mine and claim I no facts yet your entire argument rests on a hunch that Trump had an impact. We haven't yet had any evidence other than a few tweets, one a threat and the other a claim of victory.