I’d say “don’t care about the ramifications” is more accurate. What good has fancy book learnin’ every done anyway?
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I don’t think that these people are very keen on people going to college at all…
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Perhaps. But we can’t assume that they themselves are not college educated nor that they are anti-college. They only want to control the curriculum.
American high schools go through an accreditation process by way of a visiting committee made up of education professionals from other high schools. One of the many considerations that factor into an excellent score is the rigor of courses offered at the school. Poor accreditation scores do affect college acceptances and property values. I know this as I’ve been through the process on three separate occasions with two different high schools.
On one occasion we had a group of rogue parents who thought that they could punish the school by airing their grievances with the accreditation committee. It spectacularly backfired and the accreditation score reflected this (basically a D+). Parents wanted a do-over, but they learned that it doesn’t work that way. There was a collective freakout as they realized that their precious property values could be affected since the area high school was no longer desirable.
I know that book burners think they are pious, but they are really capitalists at heart.
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They might be college-credentialled but are certainly not college-educated. These are the types who only see higher education as job training programmes at best and who show particular contempt toward the liberal and fine arts.
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I’ll bet some of them are also happy to pull the ladder up behind them.
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For sure, especially if they attended elite schools and see those degrees and actual educations mainly as competitive advantages in the marketplace. They’ll always be complaining about affirmative action at their Ivy alma maters or will always support tuition increases at the “public Ivies” they attended.
In some ways they’re more despicable than their explicitly anti-intellectual comrades at the lower levels of power who are merely credentialed.
An educated and powerful fascist is also more dangerous, of course. From a recent article on the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, where the “Final Solution” was planned:
The [15] men Heydrich invited were senior civil servants and party officials. Most of them were in their 30s, nine of them had law degrees, more than half had Ph.D.s.
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Not in FL, maybe… the laws being passed to allow these books to be more easily challenged are often also targeting unis and colleges.
Not true. Many of the people leading this on the national level are college educated, including many of the governors ushering in laws to allow for book banning.
We need to stop associating this behavior with just ignorance. It comes directly from ideology, which getting a degree at yale will not fix.
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Remember, 99% or so of the current anti-vax crowd were all vaccinated as children, and the (ex)military among them even more so. We can’t even call this cognitive dissonance, because it seems to cause them no confusion. It is an ideological stance. And it’s very tiring to keep hearing people say “they haven’t really banned the book, just pulled it from this one particular curriculum!” That’s like telling people to move if they can’t find a job in their area.
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