Texas is experiencing a brain drain

I used my brain to get the hell out of there a few years back. And a few thousand miles away.

As someone who is from there and moved away 6 years ago, none of this surprises me.

It's a shame so many stupid people have so many electoral votes. Same with Florida.

Paywall = FAIL

Did Germany lament the Jews who left before it became fleeing? Isn’t this the same thing with intelligence being the determining factor? You don’t see many slouches willing to go through extended educational training only to be told that a life–saving procedure involving a pregnant woman is going to cost you your license to practice medicine. Sure, there’s religious zealots who practice medicine and are happy to look past thr oaths; training, and reputation and will find a way to reconcile their care plan that incorporates complexities including success rate, side effects, and permanent non–revocable changes. Others take the oath of their office seriously and treat their patients accordingly.

Gee! I wonder why?

[quote]Did Germany lament the Jews who left before it became fleeing?

What?

Quelle surprise.

R5, spot-on.

R4, the website below = your friend whenever a paywall comes up.

A "no Shit Sherlock lamentation, right?"

Reading is communist, socialist evil!

I can't imagine young 2020s professionals wanting to move to a Texas stuck back in the 1920s.

^^Especially younger women. Do you think Texas is a place they want to live in if they have an accidental pregnancy?

Lol no intelligent person is going to live in a state that elected Greg Abbott governor.

Those brains don’t appear to be very smart! Walking down the middle of the highway like that! Dummies!

R15, but Texas is absolutely convinced that they're a legit rival/alternative to California. Nevermind that Texas never creates, never nurtures talent, never innovates. They just want to swoop in and steal low-level talent with a promise of lower taxes.

What a shame for that state that its cons far outweigh its pros.

I'm already seeing complaints about conservative takeovers over school boards. Houston is proud of the Medical Center and NASA. Those are staffed by highly educated people who want good educations for their children. Doctors can work [italic]anywhere[/italic].

I really don't know how any of this will change without federal intervention on some level. The state government will not police corruption within its ranks. And the state will try to subvert or take over blue city initiatives. I'm hoping somewhere some federal law enforcement agency is investigating state government for corruption.

This is a brief op ed that cites three surveys? One of those was a mere ten percent reduction in OBGYN residency applications in states with abortion bans?

Texas is a corrupt lousy state run by an oligarchy obsessed with protecting its own interests. So is California. One has horrible rules about women’s rights. The other has horrible rules resulting in seven dollar gas.

Finally, brain drain is basically a polite form of elitism that posits that well-educated individuals hold up the world and fetishes the technocrat. This is done on the presumption that higher education recruits and produces the best and brightest people. As we can see from the regularity of complete and utter jackholes coming out of Harvard (there was just a thread about one this week), this is not the case. Higher education too is a corrupt tool of the ruling class obsessed with protecting its own interests. Especially with the reversal of Affirmative Action, which was the doing of three Yale graduates, two Harvarders and one Notre Damer. Especially as we move into a more stratified society of late stage capitalism, in which good public educations are no longer available to many middle class people and generational wealth is the only key to accessing any sort of upward mobility (e.g., a married couple of two young doctors without generational wealth must leave New York after their residencies are done because they cannot afford to live there.)

Brain drain is basically a justification for Social Darwinism (is that term still used?) David Hogg, who could not get into Harvard until he was forced to protest the slaughter of his classmates at a public school (another gift of the Ivy League Supreme Court), literally just posted last week that the worst people in the world of the future are at Harvard right now.

[quote]Texas is a corrupt lousy state run by an oligarchy obsessed with protecting its own interests. So is California. One has horrible rules about women’s rights. The other has horrible rules resulting in seven dollar gas.

Telling us that Texas and California are two sides of the same coin only proves the point that our educational system has collapsed. Or that you're from Texas. Oh wait, same thing.

How is this discernible?

R10 The point is the OP should provide that link, not the paywall link.

[quote] One has horrible rules about women’s rights. The other has horrible rules resulting in seven dollar gas.

And those are morally equivalent? Potato potaaato? Seriously?

I agree with your points about the brain drain term being elitist. California was the birthplace of eugenics. Nevertheless, at the very least, if Texas wants to continue growing its tech community (which has stalled btw) they should cease alienating people who didn't grow up revering guns and crypto-fascist, homophobic, misogynistic governments. Fuck Texas.

I don’t think people who are not from there truly realize how awful Texas is.

There is absolutely no separation of church and state. Attending public school there, all I got was Christian indoctrination. Texas is basically the Christian version of the Taliban. People think I’m being funny when I say that but i’m dead serious.

Not to mention all the horrific racism, especially towards Hispanic people.

Texas: There is also an influx of those with no brains.

Florida too.

Escape Texas. The intelligence test. The worst slag heap in California is still prettier than anything Texas has to offer.

I don't understand half of this, but I'm getting the feeling like the liberal shit who wrote it, is insulting me and my state! Maybe after I do some research on them 'n' find out where they live and where their kids go to school, meybe where their parents live, I'll hop on The Social or muh Twitter account and express myself.

Like my president Trump does.

If you groomers and pedos know what I mean.

[quote]California was the birthplace of eugenics.

More malignment of what is probably the best-run, best-to-live-in state in the nation, but par for the course. So while you are correct about Texas, and further correct in pointing out that R19 is full of shit, don't sully your response by including information that is easily verified as, at best a mischaracterization of the state's past and at worse, a lie.

And before the California haters jump on the bandwagon, we all know that California has its problems and faces unique challenges like no other state in our fragile union. Nevertheless, I'll stack up our state and leadership against any of the other 49 and in a head-to-head comparison, there is no better choice.

R28 Don't be stupid. Anyone can verify California's eugenics history. But looking at your other dumb posts I won't spend any more time on you.

Again, a reading comprehension failure @R28. I didn't say California didn't have a shameful past regarding eugenics, but I disputed your characterization that "California was the birthplace of eugenics." This is simply not the truth. And a simple googling of the phrase "California was the birthplace of eugenics." produces sufficient detail to show you are in error.

But please don't spend another minute on my "dumb" posts. Your objection underscores the difficulty for the cognitively-impaired to grasp nuance, meaning and veracity (let alone intellectual honesty).

ain't fucking paying to view that article

My friends in Texas are discussing whether they need to send their children to private schools to avoid religious indoctrination.

It's ridiculous to think that "brain drain is basically a polite form of elitism that posits that well-educated individuals hold up the world and fetishes the technocrat" and to blame Ivy League grads in general for society's woes. Doctors aren't "technocrats," and the loss of skilled, educated experts of various kinds because of policies that cater to fundamentalists is a genuine problem.