A state senator in Tennessee on Monday night said it should have been obvious that he was joking when he suggested that higher education be abolished because it's a"liberal breeding ground."
Roberts didn't identify the woman or indicate how he knew her educational background, but he added:"This is a woman who is a product of higher education. She's learned all of this stuff that flies in the face of what we stand for as a country, and here we are as legislators paying for this garbage to be taught to our children."
Adopting the tone of a patient schoolteacher, Roberts said on Facebook on Monday night that"my listeners clearly understood the humor and hyperbole of it."Senate biography,
Well, it's either he's stupid, or has bad taste..... Remember where the Scopes Trial took place?
Yeah.... HaHaHaHahaha…. NOT FUNNY COMING FROM FascistGOP party member!
Joking. Right. 🙄
get rid of my loans first lol
He was not joking, he emphatically said it & emphatically meant it
You weren't joking, but you are a joke. Not funny, but a joke nonetheless. Gopclowncar You weren't joking, but you are a joke. Not funny, but a joke nonetheless. Gopclowncar keepthemdumb
Sure you were joking, I don’t think so. Stop making excuses now that you have been called out you look weak
He said that parents send their kids to college for an education and they come back with their political upbringing all changed That happens sometimes...it’s called coming into THEIR own. They grow up and have a mind of their own and probably has nothing to do with college
That was no joke! Pulling a Trump by calling it a joke! Nope!
“I love the uneducated” was a campaign slogan in 2016. Not surprised they want to make it a policy to get rid of colleges.
The real jokes are the people who voted this cuck into office
Outstanding sense of humor?
NOT FUNNY
Oh, these men and their funny, funny jokes!😏
Yes. Let’s keep all our people ignorant and uneducated. We at the top can achieve great riches and wealth, reign over humanity so to speak, as long as we keep them stupid.
So he wants America full of ignorant people. We’ll do have the current White House so maybe he’s not far off
HIS VOICE RISING TO A SHOUT, Roberts said: 'If there's one thing that we can do to save America today, it's to get rid of our institutions of higher education right now and cut the liberal breeding ground off! Good grief
I've never met a remotely funny Republican. I have met liars who were Republican.
The joke is Kerry Roberts
Bs I’m so tired of people saying they was joking.. people we need to vote in November !!!
No , no he was not joking!!!
Liberals are outraged lunatics...no joke!
He wasn’t joking and folks on the right have proven that they claim the reprehensible things they say are a “joke” because centrist media won’t call them on it and will give them a benefit of the doubt
Don’t joke..... the nation looks daily for ways to be offended. No sense of humor
Need to get rid of government funding of colleges. That’s what has driven the ridiculous cost of education up.
Politicians make the best comics only when we laugh.
I wouldn’t ban them, but people don’t need college as much as they’re told they do.
Only in TN.
It shows his mentality
Republican playbook: Keep em’ dumb
Should get rid of a lot of college professors though! They feed a lot of crap to the young people today. College should go back to teaching skills and skills only!
Another clown
You know he wasn’t joking because he feels deep in his heart that exposure to events and viewpoints that contradict his own is dangerous.
Not such a bad idea
Has anyone ever met a funny Republican?
He wasn’t joking. Republicans have long waged a cultural war against public education and against “liberal colleges”. They’ve long waged war against Science and Journalism. They shriek about Sharia Law, but praise Biblical Law, and have no clue of the great irony of that.
Shucks. That warn’t fer real. That there’s just the moonshine talkin.’
There is a lot of sense to that ! College is overrated,overpriced,and most classes sold are never used in real workplace or life !
What have you been doing? sex porn 😠😥 J6H5h5A
None of these assholes are joking. It’s Trump’s ploy learned from Putin to put out feelers to test how much fascism can be deployed and how quickly. He’ll reel it in and try again in a few months with more word salad.
Now you are really joking! It is scary you are in the Senate and I'm not joking
Can we get rid of the liberal arts ones all they're doin is creating Socialist and sjws with massive amounts of debt.
Trump playbook
Senator Kerry Roberts, a graduate of Lipscomb University, lipscomb - is not such a great advertisement for critical thinking and compassion, understanding his role as a Senator. Or comedy.
Republicans demonize education to raise suspicion about 'liberal, Harvard-educated elites.' They do it to foster an uneducated base too ignorant to understand that they are complicit in their own oppression & to create a for-profit system out of reach to all but the super rich.
Eventually that will happened(college will be useless to much of the working class), and unfortunately, many without generational wealth will be left holding the massive debt.
I dont believe him
WILD guess: the man who 'jokes' about hating higher education is a Republican?
He just ment Tennessee football..
Jokes are supposed to be funny, make people laugh. That was NOT a joke.
Everything that's wrong with America in one tweet
Trump Playbook excuse
Needs to be arrested for making threats like a non politician would be
BULLSHIT HE WAS NOSHIT