Vivek Ramaswamy went on a lengthy rant on social media this week, complaining, among other things, about the chosen heroes of 1990s television shows. But fans of those shows are pretty sure he missed the mark completely.
In a lengthy message to According to Ramaswamy, it started in the 1990s, largely thanks to popular TV shows.
“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the Math Olympiad champion, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” he wrote. “A culture that honors Cory from ‘Boy Meets World’, or Zach (sic) & Slater over Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell’, or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in ‘Family Matters’, will not produce the best engineers. ”
In the days following his post, Ramaswamy was roasted on social media for this, with fans citing several points in the post. Chief among them was the idea that Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage on “Boy Meets World,” was everyone’s favorite character on the ABC sitcom.
“LMAO honoring Cory from Boy Meets World,” one person wrote. “This 100% reads like Vivek was put in lockers at age 9 and waited 30 years to lash out to prove his superiority.”
Another argued that the analogy “doesn’t provide any better insight into Vivek’s psyche,” while another joked that it proved he hadn’t actually seen the show.
Others pointed out that the fictional characters Ramaswamy focused on were actually quite smart and explicitly depicted as such.
“That’s besides the fact that Zach (sic) went to Yale, Slater got a wrestling scholarship to Iowa (best program in the country) AND went to West Point, and Stefan Urkel was just as smart as Steve!” one person commented. “Ben Savage from Boy Meets World went to Stanford!”
But beyond Ramaswamy’s irritation with TV characters, many mocked him for claiming that there are flaws in American culture itself since he works for Donald Trump.
Even Nikki Haley disagreed with Ramaswamy’s post.
“There is nothing wrong with American workers or American culture,” she wrote. “All you have to do is look at the border and see how many people want what we have. We must invest and prioritize Americans, not foreign workers.”
You can see more responses to Ramaswamy’s post below.
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