A picture is worth a thousand words, or, "The Face of Unearned Arrogance, Ignorance, and Bigotry"

From Everything wrong with academia in two pictures by J. KB. Well, really just one makes the point. This is the Mandarin Class despising, shaming and othering the rest of the world despite their own unearned arrogance, ignorance, and bigotry.

Exhibit 1.

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Dr. Catlyn Collins is an assistant professor of sociology and of women, gender, and sexuality studies​ at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a published author of a book titled Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving.

Her areas of research are gender inequality, work, families, and social policy

According to Glassdoor, the average salary of an assistant professor at Washington University is $105,700.

Add in speaking fees and book sales and it’s clear that she is in at least the top 5% of American incomes.

On Wednesday, she wanted to show the world how virtuous of a person she is, so she Tweeted this: (see above)

If you are at all curious, the average salary for an MoDOT highway maintenance worker is $31,788.

So here is this professor, with a Ph.D. in Sociology, shaming a road crew worker who she probably makes four times the salary of and most likely only has a high school diploma and on the job training, about a sign that he did not create and is required by law to put up.

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This type of academic elitism is all about reminding the non-academic non-elite about their place.

Think about this guy. He works hard in the cold rain of the Midwest right now. At the end of the day he might go to a bar with some coworkers and have a beer, every part of his body hurting.

That is the kind of toxic masculinity that this professor raves against.

So when Lefties talk about universal free college, we don’t think that we’re going to get more people on road crews fixing our highways. We think we’re going to get more sociology majors shaming those guys on Titter for working hard. And we don’t want to tax dollars to pay for that.

Maybe I am reading too much into this, but this Tweet is the kind of thing that makes me say “you know what, it’s time to shut down every sociology department in every college in America and transfer that money to community college construction programs.”

That's an interesting suggestion. Once you screen out both the ideological idiocy and the 70-80% research failure rate, I quite enjoy the field. But if asked where $100 million of education money would do more societal good, sociology departments in universities or anything in community colleges, I suspect J. KB is probably right. Plus it reduces inequality; an idea which would theoretically appeal to Dr. Catlyn Collins. But then there is the old adage about the difference between theory and practice.