Posted on 01/29/2006 2:30:08 PM PST by mcvey
This hasn't been deleted yet?
Yes...exactly so. I made a post to that effect before I saw this comment by you...
OH YEAH, that was one thing I was going to put in my first post: it's "Lector", not "Lestor" and he's a fictional character unlike Dahmer.
Your experience is not unique, trust me. What I often see in my classes is kind of an underlying unthinking stereotyping of conservative views. This comes from the ideas promoted by (often equally gullible) secondary teachers who teach the party line because that is what they know. Some of it is pretty raw and a lot of it is as filled with hate towards America as the gentlemen who wrote the thing on King Kong.
In my experience, the majority of parents do not really have much influence on what their kids think. This allows the liberal clique to do things.
Most kids I have taught over the last three decades have great instincts but have never been encouraged to focus on what they believe and why they believe it.
One last story which I hope this list picks up on. Once upon a time I was mistakenly invited to a Marxist conference in Montana (paid for by Montana taxpayers, by the way.) But I went, because, well, it promised to be too much fun to miss. On the second day of the conference, they bussed in a number of high school teachers from central Montana. The speaker that day, one of the best known liberal arts professors in the country, opened his talk with the words: "isn't it great we don't have to talk about Robert E. Lee anymore?"
So that is where we are.
McVey
Who would delete it?
This is something that completely throws me off of the cliff when I see people do it.
Reasonable people can watch a movie for entertainment value, and walk out of the theater with a foundation which enables discussion of related issues, which is often a good thing.
Weak minded people see a film like Oliver Stone's "JFK" or Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", and to them, it is REALITY. Good God. I heard a liberal make an entire analysis of a news item, for about 15 minutes, with a series of non-stop movie analogies. Talk about either a deficit of ideas, experience or expression.
On the humerous side, I remember going to see "Apollo 13", and as we left the theater, a woman in front of me said to her male companion: "I sure am glad the movie ended the way it did! It would have been a sad ending if the astronauts had died!"
I nearly spit the remainder of my bladder-buster drink on her back!
Ahhh, yes, we train people to play the "race card" when it suits and then to scream racism on ANY issue which they dislike.
McVey
Arggghhh. What an IGNORANT statement! How could anyone who understands and knows history say that? I am no Southern apologist, far from it, I admire Lincoln for taking the republic to war to preserve it. But Robert E. Lee was an exceedingly gifted AMERICAN, who wrestled with ethical and moral issues, eventually doing what he thought was right, even though it went against everything he thought he stood for, loyalty, fidelity and so on. Arghh. Look what you have made me do now. I am completely off subject. This is an abomination.
The admins - for being a hysterical paranoid rant not worthy of discussion.
I see your point there, but there is a difference.
Were that this was anything more than a hysterical paranoid rant. This is the thought process of a major portion of the Left today.
The paranoid delusions, the unceasing ranting about one race with power while others suffer, the casual mix of facts, fantasy, fiction, and race-hatred... this guy is as sane and clearminded as the Nazi elite in prewar Germany. Just insert "jew" instead of "white." An alternative is a dedicated communist following Trotsky - just insert "capitalist" instead of "white."
This guy is so oppressed he probably only has one teaching assistant, a car that is 10 years old, an apartment with only two bathrooms, health insurance without covering vision, free Internet access, and a paltry three months of vacation. No wonder he's fuming about the injustice of it all.
That is just sickeningly sad.
Proof that liberalism is a mental illness. The question now is, can it be treated?
Jack@ss of all trades and master of none.
You're so right. The other night, some woman went on this long, conspiracy-filled rant about President Bush. It took a few minutes for me to realize she was talking about Fereihneit 911. She called it a "documentary:.
I told her she might as well have ME arrested too: my family has ties to the Saudi Royal Family, my dad lived in Saudi for many years, he's a native Texan - in fact, most of my family lives in Texas - I worked on three Bush campaigns AND, as a specialist in Mideast events, including terrorism, for 25 years, I was one of the people who both knew AND tried to warn the government we were ripe for attack. I even had one of the targets right; just got the year wrong.
By her logic, I'm more guilty of 9/11 than President Bush was, even the 911 Commission proved Moore was a liar and nobody with an IQ high enough to use their computer for something besides gambling on AOL should realize F911 was complete BS. But she was welcome to try and have me arrested.
Tell that to Hillary...
Why that is so obvious! Snickers? Sounds like "Snicka's". That is painfully close to rhyming with the n-word! And 7-11? It speaks of the iconic low-rent hangout. Late nights, high prices, crime, surveillance cams! It's 'The Man' exploiting the working class!
(Hey, I think I'm getting the hang of this movie review B.S. speak! Give me a degree in movieology already!) ;-)
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