Posted on 06/04/2015 6:01:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
What I wonder about is...what if these people cannot see the error of their ways? What if they simply CANNOT be properly educated?
They have become useless to a free and liberty-minded society.
What shall be done then?
Except for that fact that isn’t how Schlosser actually responded to the student.
If he’d said “the dispute on the basis for the financial crisis is off topic here, let’s stay focused on how effective this is as a communication example” then no problem. Heck, he could have directly told the student not to troll him by distracting from the topic and I’d be ok with it.
Instead he directly rebutted the student’s assertion on it’s merits, by saying that most experts would disagree (which also happens to be lie), then shut the student down from providing a counterrebuttal.
The truth is that the real point of the article isn’t that “Schlosser” opposes use of these tactics. It’s that he opposes the use of them by more Radical Progressive students against him and his cohort of more “moderate” Progressives.
That article contains a whole lot of jumbled, contradictory though (using the term “thought” loosely). The very non-linear, ideology-based thinking he demonstrates (and most likely promotes) is exactly the cause of his woes, but he still can’t see it, or else he doesn’t want to.
Due to the forced insertion of illegal aliens from all over the world and obozo’s decimation of the military, I’m convinced that America will be an occupied nation in a few years. And it will die not with a bang but with a whimper as very few will resist.
Mr. Jefferson, as was his custom, wrote brilliantly on the topic:
”Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies (RAB: I would add to that dictatorships/tyrannies). Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislature. (They will attain public office and legislative influence.) They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.” Thomas Jefferson
HAVE WE NOW BECOME THAT “HETEROGENEOUS, INCOHERENT, DISTRACTED MASS”? DON’T RESPOND AS YOU’LL ONLY FRIGHTEN YOURSELF!
Cannot, or will not?
If they are New Socialist Believers, there is no earthly power that will change hearts. Yes, they will not function in a free society, but there’s also free will - and they’ve made their decision.
So have we.
Any good links on the truth of China’s Cultural Revolution?
It is a typical tactic of left-wing nutbag professors to use an ideology-promoting “tool” when teaching an entirely different subject. In this example, the professor was supposedly focusing on the medium and method, but deliberately chose a video that promoted his ideology in a positive way. He could have chosen a video that presented the conservative viewpoint, but by using the leftwing video, he gets to have his class AND expose his students to propanda, AND claim that the subject of the video is not what is up for discussion. Wins all around for him. The student picked up on that and wanted to counter the propaganda. I’ve seen this done when I was a student.
Due to the forced insertion of illegal aliens from all over the world and obozo’s decimation of the military, I’m convinced that America will be an occupied nation in a few years. And it will die not with a bang but with a whimper as very few will resist. The failure to resist will be leb by the PC Kool-Aid drinking, “progressive” indoctrinated, microaggression proclaiming skulls full of mush about to be loosed upon the former land of the free, home of the brave.
Clearly, unless wiser and clearer heads prevail – and soon – WE’RE DOOMED!!
Due to the forced insertion of illegal aliens from all over the world and obozo’s decimation of the military, I’m convinced that America will be an occupied nation in a few years. And it will die not with a bang but with a whimper as very few will resist. The failure to resist will be leb by the PC Kool-Aid drinking, “progressive” indoctrinated, microaggression proclaiming skulls full of mush about to be loosed upon the former land of the free, home of the brave.
Clearly, unless wiser and clearer heads prevail – and soon – WE’RE DOOMED!!
Adjusted for population growth, the number Larry cited jumps to 60 to 80 MILLION. Yes, we have difficult times facing us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
I gave a quick response about how most experts would disagree with that assumption, that it was actually an oversimplification, and pretty dishonest, and isn't it good that someone made the video we just watched to try to clear things up? And, hey, let's talk about whether that was effective, okay? If you don't think it was, how could it have been?
Granting that the professor made some rebutting remarks, the student could still have made his points through discussing the effectiveness of the video. The student could have called it propaganda, could have pointed out the use of flimsy citations or omissions of exculpatory facts.
This kind of classroom challenge may be too much for a student to engage in on the fly, as might a more wise and confident adult. But there were other avenues for the intrepid student to engage, instead of having the coddled student run to the dean.
-PJ
What's interesting about this story is that the student argued a conservative position that eliminating red-lining in mortgage loans started the housing crisis, and yet the professor is using it to complain about ultra-left wing hypersensitivity today.
-PJ
Liberal elites don't understand that this stuff is going to come back on them... what fools.
You reap what you sow:-)
Yep- I used to see the same thing.
Daily Caller, Daily Mail, The Blaze. It's getting ridiculous.
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