Parkland student answers Fox host Laura Ingraham's ridicule with ad boycott - Polidicks

Why? They're under no obligation to buy ad time during her program. She made a shitty remark that revealed her to be a person of low moral character, and people are calling to inform the companies they won't stand for it. It's up to them if they want to take that to heart. Ironically this is precisely the sort of pressure a conservative like her should applaud in response to something like this, market pressure.

Yeah but now the consequences are applying to her and that's not fair.

I got accepted to my state uni with a three-point-whatever GPA without a problem, and I'm getting a worthwhile engineering education that's had me on two internships so far with an offer for a third. I'm not extraordinary, but many highschoolers are picky and without perspective; they think not getting into a famous school means they're failures. So many people whined about having to "settle" for my state uni in Freshman year. I don't mean to complain or offer opinion on this student surviving a school shooting. I'm just saying this is very normal.

I guess I just applied to as many unis as I could so I could decide where I wanted to go once I was in.

Even then, my buddy went to 4 years of school for a piece of paper that didn't actually get him any jobs. Granted, it was Business Management, which is one of those catch 22 degrees where "You can't get a job unless you're experienced, but you can't get experience without getting the job'

holy fuck. not only did she give some half assed apology but also tried to take credit for his current "fame". what an absolutely worthless person

That's not how she works. She literally survives on creating and maintaining outrage, and until such time as people stop paying attention to her, she'll continue to make both money and the former.

Thinking about how I got shot in school, makes me wonder how the fuck adults can even hint at joking about this shit. Shame.

GPA can mean a lot less than people think it does regarding colleges. I graduated High School with <3.0 GPA and still got $10K in scholarships purely from my SAT scores.

in what is surely another coincedence, Laura Ingraham is taking the week off https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/979923018150445056

If this follows the regular Fox News routine, in about two days one or more people are going to come forward with credible stories of Ingraham harassing them in the workplace. And then there'll be the conspiracy theories that they're paid actors on George Soros' payroll, and there'll probably be some deeply regrettable shit coming out of right-wing commentators that implies they think men can't get raped/abused by women. Either way, ideally she won't be back, but unless things change that's unlikely.

the point of a liberal arts education is so that you've been given the tool-set to handle near any job out there that isn't a trade. Sure, it's not "hard" skills you've been given, but they're extremely valuable and can help you in many different job environments. at that point, it's up to the individual to use those tools to get the kind of job they want.

I remember when Trump said the US had a GDP of less than 0, followed by saying "WHO EVER HEARD OF THAT?" Well, I think Laura Ingram's GPA was indeed less than 0.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham takes week off The Fox News host Laura Ingraham announced late on Friday that she would take the next week off, after 11 advertisers dropped her show over her mockery of a teenage survivor of the Florida school shooting. According to CBS News, four more companies dropped the show on Friday: Johnson & Johnson, Office Depot, the dieting company Jenny Craig and the Atlantis Paradise Island resort. Hogg wrote on Twitter: “An apology in an effort just to save your advertisers is not enough. I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children.”

Let's hope she pulls a Bill O'Reilly and never returns from her vacation.

people are giving him shit for this but really, regardless, fox news opinions get away with far too much shit and the network itself doesn't have any sort of consiquences for going too far

https://twitter.com/rob_bennett/status/979781787986644992 (Liberty Mutual) and they just keep dropping lol

Sweet justice

This is amazing.

This makes me glad I went to trade school and got some life experience in the trades before doing college, even if I did not intend it to happen that way. Yet ironically my past jobs have helped provided the experience to be applied in other lines of work. But despite being in my early twenties everyone else at my college who is only a year or two younger than me somehow make me feel so much older in how they act sometimes.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It shouldn't even take a second to think "mocking a teen who survived a school shooting publicly is a good idea". But I guess the moral bar is pretty low for fox and it's workers.

I'm in an LDR with an American, and I'm honestly dismayed at the amount of ~general~ classes you need to take that have nothing to do with your degree. Here in Denmark a bachelor's degree is three years, but her's four - with the irrelevant classes she'd probably be out a year earlier and a few tens of thousands of dollars less poor. It isn't even like they're university level classes - she ended up taking one on conceptual physics (she's doing graphic design), and from having helped her, it's really nothing you couldn't have done in (the first year of) high school. What a waste of time and money to be honest.

then you missed the point of my class. What you get out of that class are not hard skills, but you continue to hone in on things such as writing, critical thinking, analysis, etc... Skills that are necessary and useful for a wide variety of jobs. The point of the degree isn't the knowledge you've been given (although it can certainly be a plus!), it's the skills it gives you that enable to do a wide variety of jobs.

People are actually pretty poor at figuring out what information they will need until they need it. Gen eds are the simplest way of trying to make sure people have enough information to pull from in order to be successful. The reality of the situation is few people actually know what they want to do. Most students change their majors multiple times (something like 80% of students, and the average was around 3 times). Most college grads end up working outside of their field of study (~60% end up in jobs that require a degree, and something like 1/3 end up in their field of study). A lot of the most successful people however end up pulling bits of information from outside of their field into their own. Computer science is probably the worst example you could have picked for complaining about gen eds. If you end up working for a major tech company, chances are their software development has been influenced by Agile, which came about largely due to a handful of programmers reading Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language, which is a philosophical book on architecture and design. Pretty much every field out there today has major opportunities for computer scientists and programmers.

broadening your horizions is never a bad thing. I loathe math but I am thankful for the fact I have to have some math credits under my belt, I now have a better understanding of the world around me. i know this will come as a shock to you, but they are sciences. so I wouldn't be trying to denigrate them. then you've missed the point of history classes. Want to know why so many history majors end up in a law field? it's because of the emphasis of analysis of facts that history has. In fact, that is what history is. It's not the facts themselves, but rather our interpretation of said facts, the "why's" and the "how's". what those events and their causes say about us today, what they can teach us. So are you telling me that as a doctor you would not need analytical skills? my man, you're saying an 18 year old should know literally exactly what they'll do at the end of high school, and that's just plain wrong. Most 18 year olds are not equipped with the nessecary life experience to know exactly what they're going to do. It's OK to switch majors. It's OK to not know exactly what you're going to do. Considering that the average American adult changes careers between 3-7 times in their lifetime, it's a healthy thing to not be sure and to want to find something you enjoy more. People change over time, interests change, their horizons are broadened.

I could possibly see trig and calc coming in handy down the line if you decide to expand your medical proficiency and start doing advanced research or something, but yeah.

They are real sciences no matter how many quotes you put in, just because they involve research of things you deem "unimportant" does not make them not "science" as they function similarly to any other field that is the same: you present a hypothetical and then look for evidence to back up your claim. And also you are right, doctors don't know much of political or moral philosophy which you probably associate with "philosophy" but they might be familiar with a field of applied philosophy you already know but conveniently forget to include: mathematics.