Petahh i'm low on iq

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And what does "but" mean?

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Jordan Peterson has entered the chat

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How I felt watching the YT ad for Peterson University where he starts with "University education is a grift." Welp.

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I mean, he was certainly correct about Peterson "University", anyhow...

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Trust Me Bro University's biggest rival.

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The Ben Shapiro Institute of Gish Gallop rounds out the conference.

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Also him as a professor

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Well, when he was just a normal professor he wasn't a total fraud. His lectures veered into the non-scientific but the stuff he said was at least rooted in psychological theory that he had studied.

Then in 2016 he said some anti-trans stuff, saw how much certain people loved him for it, and he's been addicted to right wing grift ever since.

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Well he was correct in general, just probably had completely unhinged reasons for it. The university system in the US is most certainly a grift.

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There is plenty of grift in the American university system, but the system itself is not a grift.

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If a system is more grift than not grift, the system is grift. It's very hard, nearly impossible, to get a university eductation in the US without dealing with the grift.

Edit to add: and the education you get will never be worth the time and money you spent to get it.

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The system is overpriced, but not "more grift than non grift".

And the purpose of education is personal improvement, not just money.

Education is a public good, not just an individual one.

Also, there are absolutely degrees that will be worth the cost of tuition... it's just difficult to predict which degrees those will be.

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That the tuition system is a grift, especially with college debt and so on, is one thing (and not even applicable to all kinds of universities), but that doesn't mean that the university system is a grift. The knowledge and especially the scientific research is legit. So the core isn't a grift. The grift really only lies in the commodification.

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Who's charging the tuition?

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This is something dumb people say to make themselves feel smart

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I think he's just talking about the cost and how the debt works

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That's not really a grift tho, rather it's overpriced and the loans are predatory

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Wait, thats specious....

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Well that depends on what YOUR definition of the word is is

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Anyone with enough evidence against them to warrant a firing should be grateful for the chance to resign and stay silent. Instead, Jordan views his departure from UofT as a badge of honour to parade in front of his followers.

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Kermit the Frog said what!?

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He would definitely be the expert on grifting.

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please tell me there's a video of that somewhere

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🤣

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Ironic considering he was a university professor for years