Public-School Graduate @abenedikt Attempts Persuasive Writing, Fails

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 78 Comments

Allison Benedikt hates Ken White at Popehat, but of course, so does Charles Carreon, and we don’t need to go there just yet. I digress . . .

If You Send Your Kid to Private
School, You Are a Bad Person

That’s an interesting headline, which Allison Benedikt endeavors to justify without success, because she’s an idiot.

I went K–12 to a terrible public school. My high school didn’t offer AP classes, and in four years, I only had to read one book. . . . I left home woefully unprepared for college, and without that preparation, I left college without having learned much there either. You know all those important novels that everyone’s read? I haven’t. I know nothing about poetry, very little about art, and please don’t quiz me on the dates of the Civil War. I’m not proud of my ignorance. But guess what the horrible result is? I’m doing fine. I’m not saying it’s a good thing that I got a lame education. I’m saying that I survived it, and so will your child, who must endure having no AP calculus so that in 25 years there will be AP calculus for all.

Allison is “doing fine,” because she’s an editor at Slate, where any ill-educated cretin can get hired, as long as they’re a liberal white girl whose wedding was reported by the New York Times.

Oh, and apparently being an anti-Israel Jew helps, too.

Free of knowledge, unencumbered by facts or logic — yes, send your kids to public school so they can be a liberal like Allison Benedikt.

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78 Responses to “Public-School Graduate @abenedikt Attempts Persuasive Writing, Fails”

H_Linville
August 29th, 2013 @ 7:03 pm

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DavidD
August 29th, 2013 @ 7:08 pm

So what’s keeping young Allison from doing some reading on her own? What, she thinks she can only read something if it’s assigned to her to read? This is just sad–a young woman who is vincibly ignorant continuing to impose her ignorance on herself.

She should read–a lot; she could start with Liberal Fascism.
TomKattman
August 29th, 2013 @ 7:17 pm

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August 29th, 2013 @ 7:18 pm

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rsmccain
August 29th, 2013 @ 7:44 pm

@ali http://t.co/SuVNnIS5EP
Steve Skubinna
August 29th, 2013 @ 7:54 pm

My theory, which is mine and belongs to me, is that Slate and the Guardian are engaged in an unannounced duel to see who can publish the most idiotic, as well as the most idiotic, articles in a given week.
Quartermaster
August 29th, 2013 @ 7:54 pm

One of the upper crust I knew at OHDOT said, “The most important card in my wallet is my Library Card.” I was in my late 30s at the time and thought that was an excellent attitude. He was also pushing 60.
Quartermaster
August 29th, 2013 @ 7:59 pm

You two do realize the physical effects Chrystal meth has on a user don’t you? You’re already having hallucinations. Next comes psychosis. Next you’ll become a conservative and that’s really the end.
JadedByPolitics
August 29th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm

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rmnixondeceased
August 29th, 2013 @ 8:57 pm

Heh. What’s my excuse?
M. Thompson
August 29th, 2013 @ 8:57 pm

Undeath.

Just remember folks, that undead, yes, unperson, no.
M. Thompson
August 29th, 2013 @ 8:58 pm

James Taranto gave her an epic beatdown over at the WSJ today.
rmnixondeceased
August 29th, 2013 @ 9:07 pm

I’m too much of a progressive left hate target to be disappeared and become an unperson …
Alessandra
August 29th, 2013 @ 9:09 pm

She’d lose her audience at Slate…
Bob Belvedere
August 29th, 2013 @ 9:25 pm

Methinks you’re onto something there.
rmnixondeceased
August 29th, 2013 @ 9:30 pm

Parades on 01 April every year …
M. Thompson
August 29th, 2013 @ 10:39 pm

The eternal life of being hated.
Wombat_socho
August 30th, 2013 @ 12:47 am

The Grauniad has an insurmountable lead in this department. Also, call for you on Line 2, a Miss Anne Elk.
Steve Skubinna
August 30th, 2013 @ 1:10 am

It’s folks like you what cause unrest…
Steve Skubinna
August 30th, 2013 @ 1:29 am

“The horrible result” is that this stupid c*nt is writing for an amateur webzine. Yeah, clawed your way to the top of the intellectual ladder there, missy. You and your dickless beta male husband.

In the meanthime, get within a hundred yard of me and mine and die. Not joking. “Live free or die” is a fine slogan, but an even better one is “Live free and make the statist slavers die.”

Touch a child not yours and you open a Costco sized can of whoopass on your sad sorry self. Really, try messing with anybody else’s children and see where you end up. The awesome power of the state fades to insignificance against one outraged citizen fighting for his family.
Steve Skubinna
August 30th, 2013 @ 1:33 am

Iiiiiiiiiiiimanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table..”

What? What?
Alessandra
August 30th, 2013 @ 6:24 am

APA says it’s normal though 😉
Alessandra
August 30th, 2013 @ 6:25 am

If you don’t clap, you’re a h8er!
Eric Ashley
August 30th, 2013 @ 9:54 am

Maybe she is doing fine, and maybe she’s not proud of her ignorance (although as many say….get thee to a library), but to go from “I got lucky and survived” to “Go and do thou likewise” seems an unwarranted leap.
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August 31st, 2013 @ 10:10 am

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docwhocuts
August 31st, 2013 @ 3:08 pm

dear author, love your work. perfection helps in the battle with progressives, so my tiny bit: cretin is fetus/newborn/infant gestated/born under severe hypothryoid conditions (simplified of course). they die before education even starts, ubiquitously.
Edward L. Daley
September 1st, 2013 @ 10:37 am

Here’s an idea, instead of Allison Benedikt wasting her time complaining about all the books she’s never read, maybe she could try – oh, I don’t know – actually picking one up and reading it! After all, most of the really good literary works I read during my formative years were not assigned to me by a teacher, they were books that I’d found on my own either in the school library, the public library or my mother’s personal library at home. No one told me to read ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’, ‘Slaughterhouse Five’, ‘Huckleberry Finn’ or the collective writings of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. I read them because they were classics that the really well-educated and enlightened adults I knew praised as masterworks. They were – and still are – readily available to everyone in America, free of charge, so the people who haven’t read them yet have only themselves to blame for such deprivation.

It doesn’t take a village to check a copy of ‘Moby Dick’ out of the library. What it takes is a curious mind and a love for reading that Ms.Benedikt’s parents apparently never instilled in their daughter when she was a child. Then again, it does seem clear that the long-suffering
Slate editor in question is more than a little familiar with ‘The Communist Manifesto’, so at least she’s got that going for her.
Edward L. Daley
September 1st, 2013 @ 10:54 am

Here’s an idea, instead of Allison Benedikt wasting her time complaining about all the books she’s never read, maybe she could try – oh, I don’t know – actually picking one up and reading it! After all, most of the really good literary works I read during my formative years were not assigned to me by a teacher, they were books that I’d found on my own either in the school library, the public library or my mother’s personal library at home. No one told me to read ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’, ‘Slaughterhouse Five’, ‘Huckleberry Finn’ or the collective writings of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. I read them because they were classics that the really well-educated and enlightened adults I knew praised as masterworks. They were – and still are – readily available to everyone in America, free of charge, so the people who haven’t read them yet have only themselves to blame for such deprivation.

It doesn’t take a village to check a copy of ‘Moby Dick’ out of the library. What it takes is a curious mind and a love for reading that Ms. Benedikt’s parents apparently never instilled in their daughter when she was a child. Then again, it does seem clear that the long-suffering Slate editor in question is more than a little familiar with ‘The Communist Manifesto’, so at least she’s got that going for her.