“Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe had some choice words Tuesday night in response to a question he got accusing him of harboring “white nationalist” sympathies.
Rowe posted a question submitted to him on his Facebook page that accused the TV host’s advocacy for the skilled trades of amounting to anti-intellectualism, and therefore racism.
A man named Chuck Adkins asked, “One of the tenants of white nationalism is that college educated people are academic elitests. Comment? No? I’m not surprised. You never take a political stand because you don’t want to alienate anybody. Its bad for business. I get it. But there is a current of anti intellectualism in this country – promoted by Republicans. Those people love you, and they think your initiative is their initiative. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is kickin our ass academically.”
Rowe, a popular jovial TV personality, went off in a long, brutal response.
“Since we’re being candid, allow me to say how much I dislike your post. Everything about it annoys me – your smug and snarky tone, your appalling grammar, your complete lack of evidence to support your claims, and of course, the overarching logical fallacy that informs your entire position,” Rowe wrote. “What really bugs me though, is the fact that you’re not entirely wrong. It’s true; I haven’t shared any political opinions this week, in part anyway, because doing so might very well be ‘bad for business.'”
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4 comments:
Go, Mike!
I love it when someone is put in their place by an individual with knowledge and common sense. Extremely rare in this day and age.
Mike is right. There are great opportunities for someone willing to make a great living in a lot of trades. And you can learn a lot that you will never learn at a liberal university. But you have to work, and that is the problem with some young people. It's out there if you want it bad enough. Even right here on the Shore.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I love it when someone is put in their place by an individual with knowledge and common sense. Extremely rare in this day and age.
August 26, 2017 at 8:18 PM
Me too, and ur absolutely correct. There are not many left like Mike and I.
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