dumbest fucks

Comments on Facebook have lately been evincing YouTube-levels of stupidity. I suppose that's to be expected. But from alumni of my university? Not only do they feel all right about spewing brain noise online, where people can see it and by which they can be judged, but they feel no compunction about being rude in the process - in the most irrelevant way, I might add.

They get upvoted, too, which is the scary thing. (A few seconds of thought reminded me that Facebook uses thumbs-up - not upvotes -, but being wrong about Facebook terminology is a kind of virtue in itself.) This is a trait that a lot of Americans today seem to be afflicted with, notwithstanding their longwinded protestations about being liberal and enlightened. And if I could venture a guess as to what these morons majored in, I would say engineering. The kind of self-important impulsion to correct people, even when they have made no mistakes, is something engineering students overflow with. English majors, who one would hope would be equipped to tell you that there is nothing wrong with using "which" in the manner in which it was used in the original post, and that "which" in this context means the same as "that", are simply too devoid of self-confidence from being daily reminded that they must seek out jobs at Starbucks to do something so crude and arrogant. Incidentally the comma in the original post was ill placed, so the first of these personages was technically right, but that doesn't excuse his rudeness. The second of these personages is not only surpassingly rude but wrong. ", which", for lack of a more elegant way to put it, would indeed imply that the U of I was establishing the nation's first school of medicine of any kind, but not " which" - i.e., "which" without the comma.

I have blacked-out these personages' names and profile pics, because I thought that would be in good taste, even though it's no difficult matter to find out who they are. I'm forced to wonder what kind of an education they must have had in their earlier years to make them so convinced that the nonsense they learnt is correct. This is what excessive reliance on self-proclaimed style and language gurus and letting the SAT inform your worldview lead to. What these people need is a soul-crushing failure to make them realize how worthless and unimportant they truly are, and one hopes that such a failure (or failures) is forthcoming.