Keep `em Stupid

Ah, yes: America’s children shouldn’t be educated, they should be entertained.

“I’d rather them not do it at all,” he added. “You’ve got a show watched by millions of children. Do children need to have gay marriage thrust in their faces as an issue? Why can’t we just entertain them?”

It reminds me about the parent complaints when a high school teacher had his students engage in a debate about the validity of the war in Iraq. I think one of the parents said, basically, “These are high school students. They shouldn’t be engaged in debates about these kinds of issues. They’re in school to learn things, not argue. That’s what college is for.”

Cause high school kids are just naturally DUMB. Like women. And people from foreign countries.

For fuck’s sake.

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