I don’t think this guy has much cause for intellectual pride about being a high-level thinker
But then again, people are very strange. This is what it’s come to:
Last month, a teacher at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, Calif., was captured on video telling his history class that members of the military are “the lowest of our low,” and insulting troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We “have a bunch of dumbs”“”“”“s over there,” Gregory Salcido told his students. “Think about the people who you know who are over there. Your freaking stupid Uncle Louie or whatever. They’re dumbs”“”“”“s. They’re not like high-level thinkers, they’re not academic people, they’re not intellectual people. They’re the lowest of our low.”
He probably hates Donald Trump, too, for bringing such coarseness to our national dialogue.
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
I couldn’t read the article because the richest man in the history of mankind refused to let me read it for not paying him 10 bucks a month for a service that everyone else gives out for free. the Trump hating liberal who advocates government should give everything out for free and claims democracy dies in darkness is also keeping his news from struggling people who can’t afford to pay $10 a month.
Our high school senior English Lit class memorized this last stanza along with many other excellent poems. We would have to go up to the teacher’s desk, one at a time, and say it softly in his hearing. This was in 1968. Such a great poem!
He certainly doesn’t have cause for any pride as a high level thinker. However, he deserves a little credit for intellectual honesty. In no way do I agree with his opinion, but I do think it is fairly common amongst progressives. Most will vehemently deny it but, many do view our service members witha condescending disdain. Surely, no one would voluntarily choose to join the military! Just like no one would voluntarily choose to go to trade school. The lofty, universal goal is, of course, a four year degree at a prestigious liberal arts school; typically followed by a graduate or professional degree. Who wouldn’t want this? Those misbegotten souls who do not pursue such a path must be too stupid to do so.
Many, many progressives (particulary educators) hold such a viewpoint, expressing it tacitly and carefully. He simply stated it outright.
Our high school senior English Lit class had to memorize this stanza along with many other excellent poems. We would have to go up to the teacher’s desk and say it softly in his hearing during class time. This was 1968. What a great poem!
He claims he is a Pacifist.
Why no comments on the regime in Syria that uses military aircraft to use poison gas on its own people?
Why no comments on the viscous force of naked military power used by the regime in Venezuela against its own people?
A very selective sort of Pacifist I gather.
A John Kerry wannabe. John dissed his fellow Vietnam veterans. As I recall he got some bad karma for that. When the Vietnam veterans got the chance, they dissed John right back.
When I read about this drivel: (We “have a bunch of dumbs———s over there,” Gregory Salcido told his students.) It really annoys me, my family has participated in most all of our nation’s military altercations going back to the 1770’s, except for the Spanish American War, I think we sat that one out. The most recent was a niece’s husband who recently got out of the service after more than a decade of being deployed a bit too often.
In the current situation we have asked a lot of the men and women in the service and rather than making fun of those who still answer the call to arms, we need to be more appreciative. I suspect people like this teacher look down on most all working class people calling them stupid. What I want, when each person feels the call to do the best for our country is becoming old fashioned and stupid in the eyes of our betters.
Being an old Veteran myself the last stanza of Kipling’s poem “TOMMY” comes to mind;
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that,
an’ “Chuck him out, the brute !”
But it’s Saviour of ‘is country” when
The guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that,
an’ anything you please ;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool—you
bet that Tommy sees !
Buried my Dad in Arlington last year. Beautiful flag ceremony complete with a 21 gun salute. Very moving and so professional. After the war, my father attended the University of Wisconsin on the GI Bill, the first of his family to attend college. He stuck with it and earned his Ph.D. After saving America, he helped build it during the post war boom. He never missed a paycheck in all his years of working and supporting his family. Some dummy.
I wish I could meet this so-called teacher.
A swift kick in the nuts from a 63 year old is what he richly deserves.
A swift kick in the nuts from a 63 year old is what he richly deserves.
I object! Facts not in evidence! I would like to see evidence for this alleged nutsack.
😉
Just another example of how the academic community and their allies, those who consider themselves the betters in society, invest their faith in credentials. Letters after a name and a diploma from a liberal arts college count far more to them than risk, struggle, accomplishment, and experience in life.
The military and veterans are still respected by the common people the self anointed elites despise. No matter how they spin it it’s obvious we’re considered dirt under their credentialed and enlightened feet – but common folk haven’t entirely lost common sense. Thank God !!
I could fight this guy. Not hand-to-hand which I remain capable of doing at this late stage in life. What I have to offer, neo, is a delightful dinner conversation. Any subject.
How little crime goes on in 7th Fleet. I was trying to find the story of the officer who lost leg about when he saved a Sailor who was to be dragged overboard. I came up with this. And that’s it. We police our serves.
A recent Pew Research poll revealed that 60% of those who self-identify as “strongly liberal” feel no pride in being an American.
This guy is a perfect example of that type. He feels no gratitude toward those who have sacrificed their very lives to ensure his continued liberty. That ingratitude makes him utterly unworthy of that sacrifice.
All other considerations aside, he obviously paints with an excessively broad brush; which is a stupid thing for an educator to do. In truth the intellectual capacity of our service folk span the spectrum. There is no question that some are there because there are no other good options. Others are there because of the superior job training opportunities in various specialties; and others because of the educational benefits that they earn through their service. And an undefined number are there simply because of an unselfish desire to serve.
Regardless of any other considerations this fool, as an alleged educator, should understand and teach that discipline and focus overcome many shortcomings. I suspect, however, that he neither understands nor teaches that concept to his students.
It would be of passing interest to know a bit more about this Cretin. What are his own intellectual credentials? How did he come to be where he is now? Why does he detest military people so vehemently? Did he fail in an effort to join, or fail to complete training in some branch of service? Or is he just an ordinary, run of the mill loser?
I know it would never happen, but I can dream of a couple of Marine recruiters showing up in his classroom to debate his positions.
Addendum. Curious to know more about this guy, I did a search and found a Wikipedia entry devoted to him.
It contains this gem: “Salcido started his teaching career at his alma mater, El Rancho High School, in 1998.[2] Although popular with many of his students, his tenure as teacher at El Rancho has been marred by controversy. On three separate occassions, Salcido has been put on adminstrative leave.”
It turns out that he has a history of bullying students; including striking one who fell asleep in class.
It’s the dumbasses over here, like this guy, who are a big part of the problem.
Gregory Salcido
So this guy’s IQ is higher than mine, Gringo’s, and Prometheus society’s IQ?
If not, what’s his self proclaimed authority coming from, his credentials. Well, that works, I suppose, as teachers have credentials, and the lawyers that rule in DC have credentials.
I knew this country was in serious trouble back in the late ’90’s when my husband got a call from his patent attorney. The firm he worked for is one of the top firms in the US. It just so happened the day was Nov. 11. When my husband asked his attorney what he was doing at work the answer was; “Ain’t no veterans here…”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/group-of-gis-mocks-kerry-remarks/
‘Nuff said?
AesopFan,
Thanks for that link. I forgot about that Kerry gaff. I was thinking of the swift boat veterans piling on Kerry during the presidential election. Kerry evidently didn’t learn anything and just can’t keep his mouth shut and stop dissing the troops.
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Gregory Salcido is an ignorant clown who shouldn’t be allowed near a classroom.
After my son graduated from law school and passed the Michigan bar exam he surprised us by joining the Army as an enlisted soldier. His 3 year tour included a year in Afghanistan driving an MRAP on convoy security. He’s now a practicing attorney and has nothing but praise for the young men and women he served with in the Army.
Every single officer in the Air Force is a college graduate and the greater the rank the more degrees they usually have. This does not even include all the training at professional military schools such a Squadron Officers’ School, Air Command and Staff College, Air War College, Industrial College of the Air Force among many others which are prerequisites for promotion. Officers are about 20% of the Air Force. I defy him to find any other working group, outside of academia, that is as well educated and as well trained as our all volunteer military.
What a jerk! The saddest part is not that he’s such a jerk but that he is allowed to pollute the minds of impressionable young students.
Until we clean up the education system it needs to go the way of CNN and the other dying media. People need to get their education from some other system that hasn’t been corrupted.
He feels no gratitude toward those who have sacrificed their very lives to ensure his continued liberty. That ingratitude makes him utterly unworthy of that sacrifice.
The rookie sailors FDR sacrificed at Pearl Harbor to gain a justification to go back on his promise of no war, was not a sacrifice people willingly made for America the nation. Thus it isn’t patriotism but the Deep State.
Irv, I bet this guy can’t work out the math to use a sextant. As for me I like to know where the h3ll I am in the world.
I was a TARPS Intelligence officer. Recon squadron. I was a pretty mean hand with a slide rule when it came to mission planning. We covered the target.
I bet he doesn’t know what a slide rule is. Or which end of the rifle to hold.
We lost the Tomcat Derby when VF-2 crushed our Sedan De Ville with a tank.
When I was teaching the aerodynamics of transonic and supersonic flight to advanced pilot trainees I never dreamed I would be called stupid by a high school teacher.
But then when i returned from Vietnam and had to travel from Travis AFB to San Francisco International airport for a flight home, I never dreamed that they would tell me that it wasn’t safe to wear my uniform at SF International.
So I guess those comments coming from a California teacher isn’t all that surprising after all.
An Education major describing someone else as “not intellectual” takes the cake. The School of Education in every major university has the lowest SATs and the highest GPAs.
An Education degree is the Participation Trophy of college.
I guess I’m stupid. I grew up surrounded with the horribly burned and the dismembered from Vietnam. My Dad, the sainted and retired Coastie Senior Chief, had Navy benefits. I was born in a naval hospital. I joined anyway.
“They’re not academic people….”
Such hubris. Sickening.
I’m a second generation military brat. My grandfather served 30 plus years in the Air Force. My father served 20 plus years. I’ve been amazed at how disconnected most of the public is with the military.
Throughout high school and university, I listened to teachers and professors saying some utterly remarkable things.
I have always been amazed at how ignorant people are of the military. How they seem to assume it is populated entirely of people with only a high school education.