Mark Steyn on the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd.
So they are in favor of open borders, presumably so that exotic Third World peasants can perform the labor to which they are noticeably averse. Of the 13 items on that "proposed list of demands," Demand Four calls for "free college education," and Demand Eleven returns to the theme, demanding debt forgiveness for all existing student loans. I yield to no one in my general antipathy to the racket that is American college education, but it's difficult to see why this is the fault of the mustache-twirling robber barons who head up Global MegaCorp. Inc. One sympathizes, of course. It can't be easy finding yourself saddled with a six-figure debt and nothing to show for it but some watery bromides from the "Transgender and Colonialism" class. Americans collectively have north of a trillion dollars in personal college debt. Say what you like about Enron and, er, Solyndra and all those other evil corporations, but they didn't relieve you of a quarter-mil in exchange for a Master's in Maya Angelou. So why not try occupying the Dean's office at Shakedown U?
No joke:
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That must be a joke. It absolutely has to be. No one is so narcissistic and oblivious as to think that the contents of that sign are worthy of sympathy or that the life so described is the fault of some mythical 1%.
No, I'm calling this out as a delightful demonstration of Poe's Law. Surely this must be a incisive lampoon by a satirical genius. Kudos to them.
The alternative is too horrifying to take seriously.
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