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1 posted on 11/17/2015 7:57:52 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Just simple thinking would be a good start.


2 posted on 11/17/2015 8:00:18 AM PST by ThomasThomas (I dream of a world where a chicken can cross the road with out having their motives questioned.)
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To: Kaslin
Good on Jay. After 20 years of stroking the egos of the purveyors of political correctness, he finally sees the light.

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.

3 posted on 11/17/2015 8:07:27 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin
Was just saying to my wife the other day how much I miss Leno. Lots of opportunities for jokes with all of the silliness that is going on in politics and Hollywood.

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.

5 posted on 11/17/2015 8:23:37 AM PST by dhs12345
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Leno told him he didn't like Mexican food.

"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.

6 posted on 11/17/2015 8:26:53 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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"A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense"

"It doesn't feel like (whispers) toilet paper!"


8 posted on 11/17/2015 8:31:56 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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The authors argue that universities need to get back to their original mission teaching critical thinking as stated by Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia: "This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

Universities want their students to be brain dead libs though.

9 posted on 11/17/2015 8:38:46 AM PST by MissTed ( Private Tagline - Do Not Read!)
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To: Kaslin

Welcome to the “new normal.”


10 posted on 11/17/2015 8:39:43 AM PST by Thorliveshere
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To: Kaslin

Your taking offense offends me. Your feelings hurt my feelings.


13 posted on 11/17/2015 9:39:05 AM PST by TBP (Nous sommes tout Francais.)
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These days a fellow can’t compliment a lady for wearing a beautiful dress without worrying that she might call him a chauvinist pig.
= = =

The ‘lady’ might be a he.

He might like it. The fellow might not.


17 posted on 11/17/2015 10:17:53 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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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.


18 posted on 11/17/2015 10:21:51 AM PST by Billthedrill
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