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If you want to see UACJOBs revel in their breathtaking stupidity–shamelessly–join an academic mailing list. You will be astounded that these people were allowed to graduate from high school, much less get a PhD, and then were given tenure.

Remember Gerri, director of Three-headed Transgendered Conjoined Twins of Color Studies? That’s right, the one who said “all white men are rapists!” (this was on a mailing list) and when asked why white men specifically (yes, on the mailing list), said that it would smear other cultures if she said “all non-white/black/take your pick as long as it’s not white men are rapists!” (also on a mailing list).

You did catch the director part, right? Let that sink in. Somebody, as in somebodies plural, thought she would be a great person for that job (and it’s scary enough that somebody would hire her for anything but sweeping the floors).

Well, Gerri is on this mailing list. She’s one of the majority who talk about how they can’t calculate a 15% tip or record a television program on a VCR, but know everything there is to know about the economy (”Bush is destroying the economy! No more tax cuts! Save the disenfranchised! Workers’ Rights NOW!”)

I’d love to see her, or any of this crew, in an economics class. Really.

About a month ago, Gerri wrote to the mailing list that she was really disturbed that perhaps her TIAA-CREF contributions were going to fund evil three-headed-lesbian-murdering anti-rainforest Republican-contributing corporations.

The discussion that followed lasted for over a week, but can be distilled as follows:

“You can change how your money is allocated on the website.”

“I’ve never figured out how to do that.”

“Anyway, how do you know which aren’t destroying Mother Gaia?”

“There’s a green portfolio, but I don’t trust them.”

“What do I do?”

“You could withdraw your money and put it in a savings account.”

“No, banks are part of the military industrial complex!”

“Maybe I’d better withdraw my money and keep it in my underwear drawer.”

Okay, being a business geek, I fired up Excel, found some current interest rates, calculated the ROI on 100K over 20 years (that’s about how long Gerri’s got to torment anyone with a brain before she retires) for TIAA-CREF, a savings account, and the underwear drawer (can we say NO ROI?) and after going to all this trouble, posted it to the mailing list.

Oh, the cacophany! The howling! You would have thought I had suggested they drink the blood of babies. I was dressed down for being insensitive and considering only the bottom line (”What are you, some kind of Repug?” one of theses Einsteins asked), and all because I was trying to be helpful.

You know, I don’t give a flying f*ck about the rainforest. I want my money to make money, so I can retire and not have to live in a cardboard box. However, there’s a reason those of us who are not slobbering leftists tend to stay DEEP in the closet. Even gently question the PC party line, and they will tear you limb from limb. These people are not the gentle, tolerant, nurturing souls they claim to be.

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