The Ground You're Standing On Might Not Be Worth Defending [Mike Rowe on Cancel Culture]

Too short, not enough words: you can read his full exchange with this weird person who tried to get him fired here: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0jPFq
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Provides more context, and quite a few more paragraphs

My comment was sarcastic and mocking, by the way

I figured lol. But made realize a lot of people probably are going "tl, don't wanna" so figured I'd throw that up there anyway

He's an American treasure

@iccarus he actually does a couple episodes of dirty jobs in Australia too. One of them is about jade mining (which is one of the few jobs he actually got nervous about).
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The other was supposed to be meeting up with some Australian natives to fetch some wood to make a didgeridoo, but his guide had the attention span of a magpie at a button factory, and ended up taking them sting-ray fishing, sand-bread baking, and various other shenanigans as well.
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Honestly the second one is one of my favourite episodes

still haven't seen it, maybe airs on US tv, but i don't watch that either.

Oh I didn't mean it aired in Australia, just meant he shot two episodes IN Australia, so if you ever feel inclined to seek it out, those episodes exist

So why are people mad at him?

The "anti-education" thing is because he has made comments that essentially say he doesn't believe we should be telling kids etc that a college degree is mandatory, and that the only jobs worth having require them.
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He thinks it's a broken system to "lend money we don't have, to kids who can't pay it back, to train them for careers that no longer exist," -- especially when "less than 20% of jobs require a 4 year degree."
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To be clear - he has nothing against people pursuing degrees or getting jobs that require them. He just also thinks that people have become so set in the idea that they are NECESSARY, they end up sabotaging themselves.
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He's also a big proponent on the value of a hard day's work and that people become so focused on the idea that they MUST follow their dream, or they will be condemned to a life of misery. When in reality he says that most of the happiest people he's ever met work in some of the dirtiest jobs in the world

The anti-science thing is because one of the show's he narrates is about science. I don't know exactly what he said, but basically he made some comments between episodes that had something to do with the inaccuracies often seen in science, and how scientists had managed to get the number of galaxies out there wrong by a few trillion (or something).
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This made the person he was addressing in these comments very annoyed for some reason. She decided that his comments meant he hates science and doesn't believe in it, and combined with his other viewpoints, this lead her to try and get the attention of the show itself to try and have him fired because he wasn't a scientist or "Morgan Freeman."
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In reality he explains that the reason for his comments had nothing to do with mocking the scientists - he was literally making an observation about the scientific process, and how the data we have and what we THINK we know changes sometimes in a matter of moments.

He mentions how he will sometimes record entire episodes and within days they'll call him back in to re-record segments of the episodes, because the information they had about the subject had already become obsolete in that short of an amount of time.
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If you want to read his full exchange with this particular woman (though it does not address the anti-education portion) you can see it here: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0jPFq
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Should note that this particular exchange happened back in 2018, though he has had run-ins with other nutjobs before and since then

How dare he question authority! How dare he suggest that the educated are fallible!