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Berkeley ‘instructor’: ‘Rural Americans’ are ‘bad people’

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Jackson Kernion, who describes himself as a Graduate Student Instructor at Berkeley, having taught at least 11 philosophy courses at the university since 2013, took to Twitter Wednesday to explain the academic reasoning behind his distaste for people from rural America, calling those who live in rural areas “bad people who have made bad life decisions.”

Kernion began the thread by advocating against affordable healthcare solutions in rural America, saying that “Rural Healthcare Should be expensive! And that expense should be borne by those who choose rural America!”

He argued that promoting a need for “affordable rural healthcare” is equivalent to arguing for rural Americans “to be subsidized by those who choose a more efficient way of life.”

“Same goes for rural broadband. And gas taxes,” Kernion added.

“It should be uncomfortable to live in rural America. It should be uncomfortable to not move,” he wrote.
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“I unironically embrace the bashing of rural Americans. They, as a group, are bad people who have made bad life decisions. Some, I assume are good people. But this nostalgia for some imagined pastoral way of life is stupid and we should shame people who aren’t pro-city,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet.

Some fools barely merit a retort. I wonder if he Tweeted all that with his mouth full of food grown/raised by the rural people he so detests.
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Berkeley ‘instructor’: ‘Rural Americans’ are ‘bad people’

Some fools barely merit a retort. I wonder if he Tweeted all that with his mouth full of food grown/raised by the rural people he so detests.


But this is nothing new... The Country way of life has been under assault for generations...
And the pressure WILL increase, to include tiered healthcare favoring urban areas, and the rest of his examples.

The end game absolutely must include moving populations to cities, because you cannot control a man in wide open spaces, with the knowledge to grow his own food, and make his own way.

Cities foster dependency in their very design.

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I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eyes.
Word to the good professor.

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I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eyes.
Word to the good professor.

A Country Boy WILL survive
Because you can't stomp us out and you can't make us run
'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns
We say grace, and we say ma'am
If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn

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When not philosophizing, he likes to go hiking.

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When not philosophizing, he likes to go hiking.



And taking long walks on the beach after taking a nap in his mothers basement.
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And taking long walks on the beach after taking a nap in his mothers basement.



And advertising for the ACA as a part time gig while wearing his jammies and drinking hot chocolate.

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Perhaps Mr. Kernion might repent of his attitude were he deprived of the products of rural America for a year. 

No, he wouldn't starve, but having to eat only imported foods will be a strain on his budget on a graduate teaching assistant or adjunct instructor stipend (and no lunches or dinners at Chez Panisse, which uses only locally sourced ingredients, i.e. ingredients from rural California near Berkeley, even if his advisor is picking up the tab).  And, it will be interesting to see how he manages to perform his teaching duties without using paper derived from trees farmed in rural areas (regardless of how much recycled content it has, it all came from there) and without using any electricity generated in rural areas.

An awful lot of leftist idiocy is actually urban idiocy, and Mr. Kernion seems a perfect example of the phenomenon.
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He argued that promoting a need for “affordable rural healthcare” is equivalent to arguing for rural Americans “to be subsidized by those who choose a more efficient way of life.”

Then why in the hell are left-wing academics like this with zero world experience promoting "affordable rural healthcare"?  Rural healthcare was affordable before liberals showed up and decided to take over control of rural lives by cramming some one-size-fits-all government healthcare BS down their throats.  What business of his is it anyway?  Why do liberals feel compelled to exert their belief system on people who live 2,000 miles away?  If he wants to live in the city, then he can live in the city.  No one in rural America is going to stand in his way.  Yet he has no qualms about imposing a burden on rural folks just to satisfy his mean-spirited narcissism.
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I also wonder what this guy feels about the Amish, given their low tech, low 'carbon footprint' approach to living in the extreme rural areas.
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The expression "Educated beyond his ability to understand." comes to mind,here.
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But this is nothing new... The Country way of life has been under assault for generations...
And the pressure WILL increase, to include tiered healthcare favoring urban areas, and the rest of his examples.

The end game absolutely must include moving populations to cities, because you cannot control a man in wide open spaces, with the knowledge to grow his own food, and make his own way.

Cities foster dependency in their very design.
Can we stop shipping these idiots food, fuel, electricity, and water yet?
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Can we stop shipping these idiots food, fuel, electricity, and water yet?

Wouldn't take em long, would it?
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Wouldn't take em long, would it?
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Like wasps in a shop vac....
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Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

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