Just simple thinking would be a good start.
Better late than never, I guess.
Some of the staunchest Conservatives out there were die-hard Liberals at one time.
Not that I'm anointing Leno a Conservative.
We need a little humor.
Another point: I noticed that he never made jokes about Obama. The View gang were bragging about how they made jokes about everyone and that Fiorina should get a thick skin. I noticed too that they never made jokes about Obama.
"Whoa, that's kind of racist!" said the intern.
That is an example of postmodernist libtard deconstructionism.Deconstructionists believe that texts or utterances contain hidden meanings, and that the readers or listeners are perfectly free to make their own subjective interpretation or meaning of it, depending on how they feel, or their own past experience.After all, they believe that there is no single absolute truth.
Universities want their students to be brain dead libs though.
Welcome to the “new normal.”
Your taking offense offends me. Your feelings hurt my feelings.
These days a fellow can’t compliment a lady for wearing a beautiful dress without worrying that she might call him a chauvinist pig.
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The ‘lady’ might be a he.
He might like it. The fellow might not.
It is a bit difficult to believe if you haven’t actually the course syllabi, but the Left has expropriated the entire term Critical Thinking and now many of the courses offered at the collegiate level might better be entitled “Seeing The World Through The Lens Of Marx”. This form of “critical thinking” is largely what is responsible for such grotesqueries as Leno details above. Given - and it is a given, by the way, the underlying precepts are nearly never examined - given that all thought is distilled into class interests typified by race, wealth, sex, sexual practice, in short, the usual suspects, given all of that, practically anything can be pigeonholed as an act of oppression or the new buzzword “microagression”. That’s where this stuff comes from. This form of thinking is “critical” only insofar as it is intended to manipulate. It is no accident that self-criticism figures so large in communist re-education camps.
The good news is that only the really stupid students fail to realize this sometime through the first term. The bad, and the real lesson, is that they have to parrot it all anyway if they expect to succeed in the academic mill. Thought has less to do with this than power. And it is a power, that Theodore Dalrymple pointed out, whose purpose is not to convince, but to humiliate.