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November 28, 2006
Moonbat Prof Calls English-Speaking Americans "Parasites"
There seems to be no limit to the contempt useless ivory tower moonbats will express toward their own civilization. Take University of Colorado's Paul Campos for example. In a recent diatribe in which he chastises us for objecting to having to press 1 for English in our own English-speaking country, Campos has this to say:
[T]he most significant fact to keep in mind about people who speak Spanish in the United States is this: such people are invariably performing useful labor. In fact, it isn't too much of an exaggeration to say that the odds a person does the kind of work that simply has to get done in order to keep civilization afloat go up in direct proportion to the probability that this person speaks Spanish.
Those among us who build the buildings, and cook the food, and clean the bathrooms, and trim the trees, and care for the children - in short, the people who, in Orwell's phrase, "make the wheels go round" - are increasingly the people who press "2" in order to hear their options in Spanish.
Meanwhile, the immense mass of well-paid parasites who infest our fabulously wealthy nation - the financial analysts, the political consultants, the managers of human resources, the vice presidents for West Coast promotion, the producers of television commercials designed to increase the consumption of certain breakfast cereals, and, needless to say, the syndicated newspaper columnists - will continue to become annoyed at the need to press "1."
Just think, if only we could get rid of the parasites, and all be gardeners and dishwashers, we could generate as much wealth as Mexico. It's a good thing Campos teaches law and not economics.
Hat tip: Slapstick Politics
Posted by Van Helsing at November 28, 2006 8:50 PM
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([T]he most significant fact to keep in mind about people who speak Spanish in the United States is this: such people are invariably performing useful labor.)
And just what do the parasites who don't speak Spanish do? We are the ones providing the jobs so such people can perform their useful labor.
Campos needs to take a course in Economics 101, where he will learn about "The Law of Supply and Demand."
Posted by: pocomoco at November 28, 2006 9:23 PM
sounds like he may be one of those well paid parasites.
Posted by: billfry at November 29, 2006 1:29 AM
The Duke probably wouldn't have had to press 1.
John Wayne was married three times. All three of his wives were Hispanic.
Posted by: phil at November 29, 2006 3:25 AM
"¡hijoputa de madre estúpido!"
"toro mierde!"
forgive me, Lord.
Posted by: nanc at November 29, 2006 5:17 AM
Nanc,
Were you cursing me, or the guy in the article?
Posted by: phil at November 29, 2006 7:16 AM
I guess I'm a low-paid parasite. Do I get points for that?
Posted by: Pam at November 29, 2006 7:51 AM
"I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one." CASABLANCA
Posted by: phil at November 29, 2006 8:07 AM
If the Mexicans are getting such a raw deal then send them ALL back to Mexicos socialist paradise.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at November 29, 2006 9:03 AM
"...the immense mass of well-paid parasites who infest our fabulously wealthy nation - the financial analysts, the political consultants, the managers of human resources, the vice presidents for West Coast promotion, the producers of television commercials designed to increase the consumption of certain breakfast cereals, and, needless to say, the syndicated newspaper columnists..."
...and left-wing professors in the humanities and social "sciences"...
Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 29, 2006 11:32 AM
phil - the guy in the article! bwaaaaaaaaahaha!
Posted by: nanc at November 29, 2006 11:40 AM
Campos probably slept with a copy of "Das Kapital" under his pillow and learned by osmosis everything he ever need to know.... look for the EEOC letters in the Law School Application Kit.
Posted by: Farmer John at November 29, 2006 11:46 AM
Imagine what would have happened if this kook said the opposite, that those who only speak Spanish are 'Parasites'?
Posted by: Adam at November 29, 2006 2:46 PM
Spanish is just another colonial language, with no more priority in cultural terms for a special presumption of precedence.
However, there are practical reasons for using English as a language of choice. I am speaking as a Scot from a minority language background. Taken as a whole, English as a first language and then as a second language, worldwide, is spoken in such vast numbers that not even the population of China exceeds the number of English speakers.
Economically, most of the essential modern knowledge is reported and stored in English and always will be. Like it or not, English is it for IT and all workable knowledge. Semiotic and idiotic ideas might moonbatize their ideas around in the most impenetrable forms of English but it is after all, English that makes their ideas transmissible. Stupid professors might opine otherwise, and they do, but the truth is the market of economic success for all will ultimately be in English. Paul Campos, is just another jerk that hates his own culture, the fact that he thinks Spanish is a better language is just silly, it is just another less successful but beautiful colonial language. If you learn English you potentially put dollars in you pocket way more than you will with Spanish unless you are in Spain.
In short it is just moonbats being bats as they surely are.
Posted by: Howard R Gray at November 30, 2006 12:11 PM
