Now hiring college grads is racist, too
American Thinker,
by
Lev Tsitrin
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
5/1/2021 11:33:07 AM
I treated the NPR story on some companies' decision to loosen hiring requirements for certain jobs by not requiring a college degree as background noise, until at the very end I was startled by its dismissive description of a college diploma as just "a piece of paper that someone paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for."
Really? Is that all that it is? Is that what years of study boil down to?
I am perfectly willing to admit that plenty of jobs need no degree, native intelligence coupled with basic training being sufficient. I will also admit that education is wasted on some people —
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 5/1/2021 11:44:38 AM (No. 772475)
There actually are a goodly bunch of totally worthless degrees out there. Like political science, or a dozen other useless degrees that teach you nothing of value as preparation for a job. I still remember when a guy on my dorm floor told me he had switched majors, from engineering to political science. I laughed out loud, literally, and my comment was "Hah, politics and science couldn't possibly be farther from each other. You're kidding!" He assured me it was real, and he was going there. I saw him about 10 years ago, or 40 years after college, at an air show, running a sunglasses stand.
OTOH, accounting, medicine, physics, science, engineering, computer programming, many business and other practical "job training" degrees are crucial to being capable of doing many of the important, highly complex and technical jobs that are required to "make things work" these days.
Probably 70% of college diplomas are no indication at all that the holder has any marketable skills. But, those remaining 30% are the literal glue that holds business, manufacturing and the whole economy together.
Destroy that and you really DO destroy the country.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pros7767 5/1/2021 12:12:49 PM (No. 772506)
Let's analyze NPR's/Corporations' position that "a college diploma as just "a piece of paper that someone paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for."
As #1 said, they're probable right about 70% of those degrees, especially nowadays. So if corporate America now deems these degrees worthless, why is Biden et.al. declaring free college for everyone? Seems to me it's just more money being flushed down the toilet.
I truly believe, with the exception of STEM, there isn't a job a young person could not learn simply through internships and training from people with experience, and that includes law. (As a lawyer, I can say that.)
Plus, by eliminating the need for college, they would get rid of the indoctrination centers destroying our youth. And therein lies the answer for free college...they need the indoctrination to continue unabated!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Californian 5/1/2021 12:31:05 PM (No. 772529)
No education required? For my doctor? My lawyer? The engineer designing the bridge and airplane?
I can see a bright future ahead for this country!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Penney 5/1/2021 12:36:43 PM (No. 772537)
It is only common sense to work hard for the degree required for the profession that is chosen but paying for a useless degree that amounts to nothing more than socialist propaganda is worthless. Yet many do pay for such a piece of paper. It is time to examine exactly which lifetime endeavors require a degree and which ones do not. Biden seems to want Americans to remain students in Government schools for a third of their lifetimes, when not everyone needs a degree for their chosen occupation.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 5/1/2021 12:36:52 PM (No. 772538)
Every failure to provide equal outcomes in racist. No doubt, white supremacists invented colleges just to keep minorities out.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Delilah 5/1/2021 12:45:30 PM (No. 772541)
I graduated Magna cum laude with BS in chemistry and BA in math. I was shocked at my first job when I found out commercial chemistry required knowledge they did not teach me in college so I had to learn it on my own. I had three jobs in different lines of science and never needed much math until my last job where I needed statistics so the math was not a waste.
I paid all my college expenses with a scholarship for tuition and get irate when I hear OBiden wanting to pay for all kids to now get free college. They'll just play at it and never appreciate it the way one does when one has to work every day to get that degree.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
paral04 5/1/2021 1:08:27 PM (No. 772553)
Yeah, that doctor who is going to perform surgery on you, "he/she don't need no stinkin' college degree".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 5/1/2021 1:34:49 PM (No. 772566)
I'm sure "some dude" can design the safety systems on a nuclear weapon, or a wing attachment for an aircraft, or a replacement heart valve. 🙄
/s off
LOL! Just because journalism is a BS degree, doesn't mean that they all are.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pearlyjo 5/1/2021 2:14:46 PM (No. 772595)
Or are the lefties getting us ready for access to college like other Socialist countries do it? Everyone doesn’t’t get a free education in Australia, England, Ireland, Germany, etc. You have to have the grades, and then you are often directed to what you will study, so underwater basket weaving may not be a free degree for you. This dream that the US is going to send everyone to college to study whatever useless thing they want to is a lie. The lefties aren’t telling the truth. It will be a huge bait and switch. But in the meantime, get those woke corporations to stop requiring a degree.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/1/2021 3:25:15 PM (No. 772649)
Frankly, a college education should only be required for medicine, engineering and the sciences. Everything else should be a certification program.
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I defy these leftist morons to entrust their health needs and concerns to a doctor without a medical degree!! Then we will see if they can live with the courage of their convictions!!