One obvious reason to dismiss AOC's education is that it's not a differentiator. A college degree is certainly valuable in itself, but all of her peers have similar qualifications, and their competence is all over the map.
Even President Trump has a degree in Econ, from Wharton College. In a world where that's true, "she has a college degree!" doesn't mean much, and should probably be dismissed.
I’m not dismissing hers in particular. I’m pointing out that a college degree tells you nothing useful about a politician. You can pretend otherwise, but I doubt you have ever changed your vote on the basis of a candidate’s degree. Most voters don’t, and they are right not to do so.
To poke at both of you... it might, in fact, behoove you both to review where and why the college degrees were invoked.
Let's walk through it, again, just because.
First, we had -
She isn't called "Occasional-Cortex" for nothing. There's nothing in her CV to indicate she's qualified for anything beyond the bar-work she once did, and quite a lot in her public declamations to indicate she isn't.
But her hawtness as a bosomy young woman, and the apparent egoism and lack of self-doubt that this has conferred her has got her quite a long way. So far.
Then came the response that inspired this tangent.
Well, there are those degrees in International Relations and Economics. But you forgot about those, I'm sure. I'm certain you're still steaming that the video of her dancing in a school video didn't crush her the way you hoped.
Since arriving, she has proposed and worked on multiple bills, even seeking to work on one with Ted Cruz, not a man known for agreeing with socialists. Of course, since those bills weren't giving billionaires tax breaks or gutting the ACA you think they must be dumb.
She's managed to get Fox News to go absolutely psychotic on her. This took little more than being elected and being slightly progressive. They cannot go a day without mentioning her, sometimes not even an hour.
During her attendance on various committees she has asked critical questions, especially of Michael Cohen. During the same appearances the various GOP sycophants stumbled and tripped over themselves trying to show their loyalty to Trump.
She's a hell of a lot more competent than the racist, psychotic, incompetent, failed businessman in the White House.
So, the claim that was directly addressed by that was, get this -
There's nothing in her CV to indicate she's qualified for anything beyond the bar-work she once did,
Without touching the rest, generally, college degrees are a pretty good
indicator that someone's qualified for
something. It's simply nonsensical to argue against that, but it sure looks like Ziggurat's trying.
Ziggurat decided to fight back against the notion that college degrees mean anything at all and chose to try to move the goalposts all over the place, in response, and now as a result, we descended into annoying territory where the two of you are just fighting against arguments that weren't made in the first place. I suppose we could do more to discuss some of the general topics that Ziggurat tried to change the discussion to and you've hopped on the wagon for, theprestige, but why should anyone be particularly interested in doing so when the transition to that topic is nothing more than a tactic to avoid addressing what had actually been said in context?
ETA - Or, in other words.... NO ONE CLAIMED THAT "HAVING A COLLEGE DEGREE" WAS PROOF POSITIVE THAT AOC IS QUALIFIED AS A POLITICIAN, SO STOP ARGUING AS IF IT WAS CLAIMED.
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