Many liberal democrats and leftist supporters believe that their ideas are the result of careful, educated study. These people look down on others who espouse a different viewpoint and generally think that manual laborers are too stupid to understand real political discussions. One such arrogant individual recently tried to attack Mike Rowe, host of the television show “Dirty Jobs,” by coupling him with White Nationalism. However, Rowe didn’t play along the way the egotist expected. He schooled the ignorant, conceited man with a righteous response.

Chuck Adkins asked, “One of the tenants of white nationalism is that college educated people are academic elitests. Comment? No? I’m not surprised. You never take a political stand because you don’t want to alienate anybody. Its bad for business. I get it. But there is a current of anti intellectualism in this country – promoted by Republicans. Those people love you, and they think your initiative is their initiative. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is kickin our ass academically.”

Proving the man wrong, the popular host did take the time to answer in a masterly way. Rowe was “pissed” by the offensive inquiry. He delivered a rant worthy of any founding father.

The brutal response began, “Since we’re being candid, allow me to say how much I dislike your post. Everything about it annoys me – your smug and snarky tone, your appalling grammar, your complete lack of evidence to support your claims, and of course, the overarching logical fallacy that informs your entire position.”

Rowe’s point about a lack of evidence is an essential one. Many liberals are quick to cry bigotry, stereotyping, and prejudice, yet they are often guilty of those very injustices towards anyone who doesn’t think the way they do. Adkins makes broad, stereotypical statements about “republicans,” and about “those people” who watch Rowe’s show. Adkins claims to know exactly what viewers think and how they interpret the celebrity host.

Adkins further made insinuations about Rowe, claiming that he knew why Rowe didn’t take a political position on every nauseating issue that liberals dream up. Adkins comments are a typical ploy used by some arrogant progressives who want to promote a single, unproven idea.

Rowe wrote, “You say that White Nationalists believe that everyone who goes to college is an ‘academic elite.’ You then say that Republicans promote ‘anti-intellectualism.’ You offer no proof to support either claim, but it really doesn’t matter – your statements successfully connect two radically different organizations by alleging a shared belief.”

Rowe goes on to explain the results of Adkins implication. “Thus, White Nationalists and The Republican Party suddenly have something in common – a contempt for higher education. Then, you make it personal. You say that Republicans “love” me because they believe that my initiative and ‘their’ initiative are one and the same. But of course, ‘their’ initiative is now the same initiative as White Nationalists,” he wrote.

Rowe explicitly demonstrated the logical fallacy used by Adkins. He responded that a fallacy of this nature is a “flaw in reasoning or a mistaken belief undermines the logic of a conclusion, often leading to real-world consequences.”

He’s absolutely correct. Much of the “fake news” and opinions issued by CNN and other leftist news is based on nothing but logical fallacies. Rowe pointed out that at that moment, a CNN reporter was saying that since Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, republicans who want to protect the monuments dedicated to one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, are therefore “pro-slavery,” which makes them aligned with the KKK.

Likewise, Rowe added, “Over on Fox, a Republican is arguing that ‘any Democrat who has not yet condemned the Senator from Missouri for publicly wishing that Donald Trump be assassinated, is guilty of wishing for the exact same thing.’ That’s a logical fallacy.”

Rowe also beatifically made the argument easy to understand. Many liberals like Adkins think they’re educated, but in fact, are not. They aren’t able to understand logic, which is why a logical fallacy is hard for them to grasp.

Rowe demonstrated how fallacies like this work, writing “‘Good Evening, America, our top story tonight… Chuck Atkins is a racist! Why? Because he can’t spell. Just look at his grammar! In a recent post on Mike Rowe’s Facebook page, Mr. Atkins, while bemoaning America’s global academic standing, not only misspelled ‘elitist,’ he used ‘tenants’ when he meant ‘tenets.’ He neglected to use a hyphen in ‘anti-intellectual,’ and he misplaced several commas and apostrophes! But why is he a racist, you ask? Simple. Because everyone knows racists are ignorant. Chuck Atkins is clearly a poor speller. Poor spelling and grammar are signs of ignorance. Ergo – Chuck Atkins is a racist! Boom! The matter is settled!”

Rowe then explains his public stance on education and the work done by the “mikeroweWORKS” Foundation. There are millions of skilled trade positions needed in the United States, but such careers have been sneered at for so long, that it’s difficult to attract young people toward them.

A construction job doesn’t equate to “anti-intellectualism.” Moreover, there aren’t many foremen, superintendents, or carpenters who compare to the village idiot. Staying safe and doing a good job in that industry requires a high level of awareness and intelligence. However, that’s something that Chuck Adkins probably knows nothing about. He, most likely, wants to live in comfort, but has no conception of the work required to establish it.

Rowe goes on to add, “In other words, Chuck, I have no idea what The White Nationalists think about my efforts, or the Republicans, the Democrats, the elitists, the Italians, the Presbyterians, the unions, or the self-proclaimed anti-intellectuals. And really, I couldn’t care less. My question is, why do you?”

The answer isn’t hard to guess. Possibly Adkins wanted to feel better about himself for some weakness, or maybe he’s henpecked and needed to attack someone who he could actually ignore. Regardless of his reasons, Mike Rowe explained very clearly that the question and assumptions were arrogant and ignorant.

Many liberals will never change, but maybe, if the truth continues to be spoken, some will realize it exists and try to learn more. White Nationalists there may be, but grouping all republicans in that ideology is both bigoted and wrong. Perhaps by unloading on this Internet troll, Mike Rowe helped him understand something beyond his own imagined intellectual superiority.

Rowe wrote, “’To quote Thomas Jefferson, (while I still can,) ‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free and live in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.’”