Posted on 06/16/2016 1:41:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: This is from a website called Intellectual Takeout. Our show prep knows no bounds here. Once we determine that something is not fake or satire, we'll go with it.
"College Kids Can’t Discern Between Fact & Opinion." That's exactly right, and that's how they've been taught. And it's not just recent students. I think many in the media today don't know the difference between fact and opinion. In many cases, opinion can be fact if it's the right opinion. If you can't tell the difference between opinion and fact, then you are incapable of critical thinking, critical speech, critical writing, because that's not taught anymore. No one's taught to have critical, logical thinking.
You know why?
Logical thinking is going to produce opinions that some are gonna call racist or sexist or bigoted or homophobic. You're not permitted to be any of that, which means you have to throw logic out half the time and instead adopt whatever the politically correct view of something is -- which, by definition, is not fact. It's a huge problem. You can't get through to people who are not capable of reasoning. Being incapable of reasoning is the equivalent of having a closed mind, which is one thing. But when the people with closed minds think they're the ones with open minds, the problem is compounded.
We are not teaching critical, logical thinking. We're teaching obedience to the leftist agenda. We are programming and indoctrinating and propagandizing students, and we are purposely instructing them not to think on their own. That becomes punishable. That means varying and steering away from the ordained, and you are not permitted to do this. You must remain a true follower. And this might be going on for so long, you can't get through to people. You can't reason with them. They can hear the facts that you ought to...
You can present to them with total truth things that destroy everything they believe, and it won't get through. It becomes a threat. They've been taught to have closed minds -- and, such, what you say doesn't do anything but panic them. And then they want nothing to do with you. And then, if it gets really bad, they try to shut you up or have the institutions at the university shut you up. Whatever, you're becoming a threat. You're saying things that they're not permitted to think that they've been told are whatever, and you're the problem.
Here's the way the story begins: "By this point in the year, most high school seniors have walked across the stage and grabbed their diploma. Many parents sit proudly by during this process, sniffing back tears and saying, 'I can't believe they're ready to move on to college!'" Other parents are saying, "I thought the day would never come! The kid's leaving! Thank God" It takes all kinds. "The unfortunate fact of the matter is, [graduates] may not be as ready as the parents, teachers, or even students themselves think" they are. They may not even be close, despite the fact they got a diploma!
"That's one of the findings from a National Curriculum Survey released by the ACT. As the ACT explains, the survey serves 'to ask educators about what they teach (or don't teach) in their courses and how important they feel various topics in their discipline are for students to be successful in these and future courses.' The section on English Language Arts is particularly interesting. ACT asked teachers in the fields of English, history, and other social sciences to name the reading skills that are most important to a student's success in class.
"An overwhelming number of K-12 and college instructors listed the following five areas as most important: Determining central ideas. Identify important details. Drawing conclusions and make inferences. Evaluating evidence and/or support for an author's claims. Distinguishing among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment. But as many college instructors were quick to discover, many high school graduates were ill-prepared..." They had no idea what any of that was. "Most startling was the fact that only 18% of college instructors rated their first-year students as well-prepared in the area of 'distinguishing among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment.'"
That is a problem.
And that is on purpose.
That is the result of the leftists' control of public education, creating mind-numbed, dumbed-down propaganda receptacles.
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RUSH: Okay. We're gonna start on the phones with Fred in Syracuse. I'm glad you called, sir. Great to have you with us. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you so much. It's an honor to speak with you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.
CALLER: (garbled cell connection) So I'm 24, and recently got into politics. Before that, in high school, I had no care about it. I've been listening to you for about two years, and I strongly believe in what you say. So the thing going on right now -- and what I believe is why Muslims are getting so offended -- is because we're classifying ISIS and the terrorist attacks as jihad and Islamic religion. I do believe if we were to stick to ISIS and not put them into the group of a religion, it would not only satisfy the Muslims, but it would also make a lot of the other people satisfied. But I want to ask you, if... Someone explained this to me. Sorry, I'm nervous here, but someone explained this to me. If there's a group of farmers, and farmers started attacking random people and started attacking random lots, would the farmers that were innocent not be...? You would think...? (garbled)
RUSH: I think a cell phone connection problem. Well, where to start with this. Look... (interruption) Fred's line dropped? That was his name? Fred? You took his name down. Okay. Fred, I trust you're still out there. You're a very nice young man. You're 24 years old, and it is an opportunity. You have presented me a golden opportunity to react to and explain the answers I have to your observations and questions. You said you're 24. I've only got 45 seconds here, Fred, so I'm vamping here.
I can't say everything I want to say in 45 seconds, but I can set it up. Uh, Fred? They are not attacking us because of anything to do with what we say about them. The fact that you think so betrays your age. It's quite understandable. You've been raised among people who are righteously indignity or care very much about what people think of. These people couldn't care less about any of that! It's not about that, and your farmer example is easily used here to explain even further. So don't go away here, Fred. It may not be nice, but it's coming.
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RUSH: I'm gonna take this little time answering this question because I think it be easy to say, "No, you're wrong. They don't hate us because of what we say about them." But I think it's an opportunity. Fred was 24 years old. He's been listening for two years. Prior to that, he was apolitical. He didn't care about it through high school, parts of college. He said that it wasn't anything that interested him. I don't know why; I didn't ask him. There wasn't much time. I could guess that there's too much conflict and no resolutions, and he got tired of that.
I think it's what most people find problematic with politics; there's no solution. It's ongoing, never-ending arguments, name-calling, finger pointing, and nobody ever ends up agreeing on anything. And even when the Republicans try to agree with the Democrats, they still are hated! But now he's 24, now he's getting into it. Something happened, he caught this program, and now he is really into it. He heard Obama's speech. "Maybe it makes sense," he said. "Maybe if we stop calling them names, maybe they won't dislike us as much."
And he gave an analogy. You know, what if a bunch of renegade farmers are running around committing crimes and we started castigating all farmers as a bunch of extremists. Well, in that analogy, the people conducting the acts of terror are not the ones supposedly offended by being called names. They continue to live peacefully and so forth. They may be steaming and burning. But, look, I don't want people get distracted by that. Bottom line, Fred: I know that because of your age you have been raised to believe that..
Because you've experienced it. People getting mad, wanting revenge, end up hating people because of name-calling or bullying or some other such thing. You're projecting, and you're assuming that we're all people, all human beings. There's no difference, and we're calling them names. We got people on the radio, we got in politics, and we're calling these people names! Of course they're gonna get mad. And some of the unstable ones out there are actually attacking us 'cause we're calling them names, and if we just stopped calling 'em names then everything would be okay.
You're projecting the way you would act, maybe, or the way you've been taught people will react, or maybe what you've seen, but you're projecting your own personal worldview onto people that you don't understand. And the fact is that it's not just us. Militant Islamists are on the march around the world, Fred. And it is because their religious beliefs tell them that infidels are not to be tolerated, and we are infidels. We are a Judeo-Christian country as we were founded, and, as such, we're nonbelievers. We're nonbelievers in the teachings of Mohammed.
We are forever enemies because of that.
If we changed our attitudes and started complimenting them and talking about how nice they are, it wouldn't change a thing about them. It wouldn't make ISIS go away; wouldn't make Al-Qaeda go away; it wouldn't make Hezbollah go away; it wouldn't make Hamas go away; it wouldn't make the Palestinian Authority go away. They exist... It's just like the race industry, Fred. If racism actually did end tomorrow, the race industry wouldn't accept it and permit it; there's too much money to be made; there's too much fame to be acquired.
There is much to be gained by having an enemy and being representative for The Victims. It's a serious overall problem. But in the main here, just the concentrated answer to your question, if you want to find out why we are being attacked, it is in the Koran. And it has nothing to do with insulting them. It has nothing to do with calling them names. It has nothing to do with anything to do with that. Now, folks, the reason I wanted to take time with this is because I'm sure that if you're 18-24, in that range, that's what life has become.
"Stop calling people names, stop insulting them, and they'll stop bullying you," or they'll be nice to you or what have you, and you the end up projecting that belief on every other population, group throughout the world. And the thing is, there are ideological things to learn about militant Islamists. Sharia law is what it is, Fred. Sharia law is every bit as important to them as the Constitution is to us. And it doesn't matter if we never called 'em another name, if we don't accept Sharia, well, they're never gonna go away until we do.
Thomas Jefferson was the first of our founders to write about this. We've been dealing with this since the Barbary pirates way back in the 1800s -- well, the eighteenth century. I think what I mentioned a moment ago about young people not being able to distinguish between fact and opinion, I have just presented fact. If he thinks it's my opinion... "Well, you know what you're talking about. That's your opinion. That's just not that's not the way world works." I'm not saying it's his attitude, but the odds of getting through to people are becoming smaller and smaller, particularly in something like this.
And it doesn't help, by the way, after 9/11 when the State Department convenes a seminar, "Why do they hate us?" I mean, when so many Americans are running around, you can't really blame Fred in a sense, he sees Orlando happen, and reads the New York Times or hears about it conservatives get blames or gun control gets blamed or bullies get blamed, Christians get blamed. The answer is, "Well, stop saying bad things about 'em, and it'll be okay." Fred, how many people do you think voted for Obama thinking that if he was elected it would demonstrate to the world we're no longer racists and it would end racial strife?
And all it's done is got worse since Obama was elected. Fred, the bottom line is this: When talking about geopolitics, talking about national security, we have enemies that we have to deal with, and they're going to have to be defeated, or we are. It doesn't come down to not calling them names. It doesn't come down to being polite. It doesn't come down to any of that. It is far deeper and much, much more grave than something simple as changing the way you talk about people. They're not doing anything because they feel insulted.
They're following the edicts and the instructions of their religion, pure and simple.
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In many cases, fact can be opinion if it's the right fact. And, in the event of a dispute, I shall tell you which is which.
Saying “If we would insult them, they wouldn’t attack us” is tantamount to saying “If women didn’t entice men with the way they dress, men wouldn’t rape them”.
They attack us because they are barbarians. It is their very nature. They commit terrorist acts so they can terrorize.
Exactly right.
If the shooter had been a white Nationalist member of the Aryan Nation, had contact with the Aryan Nation, committed the crime in the name of the Aryan Nation, been lauded by the Aryan nation and espoused racist views, how would Millennials see this?
They would see it according to the narrative given to them by the media, which is that it is an organic problem with specific groups that must be eliminated and condemned. Not only that, Christian Churches would be forced to officially condemn Christian Identity churches or be seen as partners with them.
You are 100%+ correct.
To them, we are non-believers. To them, we are the Enemy. The silence of ‘moderate’ Muslim folk is deafening.
I’m glad I’m old and on the back side of life.
A opinion is a opinion. A fact is a fact
So am I.
I’m glad we’re growing old together, LOL! :)
Thanks Kaslin.
This current debate is a misdirection. Why? What we are experiencing is not “Radical Islam”, but rather everyday “normal Islam!” Normal Islam is a religious political totalitarian machine of conquest and submission. If we allow ourselves to create a false dichotomy between good Islam and bad Islam, we end up defending Islam itself! Question: Were the normal NAZIs good and the radical NAZIs bad? Were the normal Kamikazes good and the radical Kamikazes bad? Obama, or the demon behind Obama, is brilliant. To be able to lead thinking people down this path is diabolical.
“I’m glad I’m old and on the back side of life.”
Not me. I’m 67 & frankly it sucks to know I have fifteen years left, tops. Retired, I have for the first time in my life sufficient income meaning some left over at the end of the month. Nothing left to buy, I have all the guns I couldn’t afford when I was younger.
Now...there’s the threat of Islam. To the jihadis there are no innocents who are not Muslim. Therefore, we are all targets. In America, targets who can shoot back. Can’t do the Army PT test anymore, but I can still shoot.
Something to feel young about. Be part of a cause, which is the cause of liberty. Not over yet.
“If there’s a group of farmers, and farmers started attacking random people and started attacking random lots, would the farmers that were innocent not be...?”
Unfortunately the farmers you speak of, all follow the same almanac (Koran), which tells them to destroy and attack all who don’t believe what their almanac states. Some of the farmers ignore the instructions the almanac contains, but still believe the almanac is the truth, and in some cases are ashamed that they do not follow its instructions. They, because they are not in the majority, live peacefully among those they are told to hate in the almanac.
Some of these almanac purists preach and call out the non-almanac followers to repent and become violent. Some of the non-almanac followers hide those who have done violence in the name of the almanac. Some also know the plans and where the purist will strike, but because they really believe the almanac is correct, don’t tell anyone.
Unfortunately those in power demand that everyone ignore what the almanac states in plain language. No one condemns the almanac,because so many believe it is holy. The almanac says you can lie, cheat, steal, murder, and commit crimes against all those who don’t follow the almanac.
Also unfortunately if you are a powerful leader, you can lie and say you are not a follower of the almanac, all the time defending those who follow its instructions.
I posted this about a month ago.
This from the 1987 book “The Closing of the American Mind”, by Allan Bloom
From the Introduction starting on page 25;
“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every
student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is
relative. If this belief is put to the test, one can count on the students’
reaction: they will be uncomprehending. That anyone should regard the
proposition as not self-evident astonishes them, as though he were calling
into question 2 + 2 = 4 . These are things you don’t think about. The
students’ backgrounds are as various as America can provide. Some are
religious, some atheists; some are to the Left, some to the Right; some
intend to be scientists, some humanists or professionals or businessmen;
some are poor, some rich. They are unified only in their relativism and
in their allegiance to equality. And the two are related in a moral intention.
The relativity of truth is not a theoretical insight but a moral
postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it. They have all
been equipped with this framework early on, and it is the modern replacement
for the inalienable natural rights that used to be the traditional
American grounds for a free society.”
Snip
“The danger they have been taught to fear from
absolutism is not error but intolerance. Relativism is necessary to openness; and this is the virtue, the only virtue, which all primary education
for more than fifty years has dedicated itself to inculcating. Openness—
and the relativism that makes it the only plausible stance in the face of
various claims to truth and various ways of life and kinds of human beings
—is the great insight of our times. The true believer is the real danger.
The study of history and of culture teaches that all the world was mad
in the past; men always thought they were right, and that led to wars,
persecutions, slavery, xenophobia, racism, and chauvinism. The point is
not to correct the mistakes and really be right; rather it is not to think
you are right at all.”
snip.
There’s so much more.
You can download the entire Book (PDF) here;
We have taught our students and now these parents are teaching their kids about the new virtues to live by.
Openness, So-called Tolerance, Truth is subjective, Relativism in all its forms, Being Non-Judgmental and the list goes on and on.
The Left/Progressives of today, whether they know it or not, promote willful ignorance and uncertainty as a virtue. After all, to be certain about something is a truth claim and is judgemental and should not be advanced ahead of any other truth claim.
Our educational system has been indoctrinating our kids for over 70 years and I believe we have reached the tipping point. Our American culture has been lost. Our Media, Businesses, Public and Private Institutions, Government entities both Federal, State and Local have bought into this insanity to such an extent that they don’t even know any difference. It’s not like they are making a reasoned and thoughtful decision about which position to take on any given issue. It has become their worldview, the foundations of their belief system.
And now we have this insanity being forced upon us by our own government with laws, regulations, threats and fines for non-compliance. Forced upon both individuals and businesses with political correctness and well organized boycotts.
But, I will say it again. They don’t know what they are doing. They don’t know anything else. They advance this worldview without any critical thought. They are on auto-pilot and they have reached critical mass.
Ever thought that Conservatives and Liberals live in two different realities?
See above.
Ever wonder why Liberals seem to be completely immune to their own hypocrisy?
See above.
Ever thought that Liberals and Logic don’t seem to go together?
See above.
Do you recall the axiom”: (I first read here on FreeRepublic, BTW)
“Conservatives hate it when you lie to them, Liberals hate it when you tell the truth”
See above.
Well said. I’m not giving up. I’m just glad I’m not a kid and have to live my whole life ‘governed’ by anti-Americans more concerned with lining their pockets than preserving our Republic.
But without crediting or mentioning "TRUMP" and calling out "Militant Islamic Terrorism" BY NAME, it doesn't help President "Trump" BY NAME.
Did I miss something? This GOPe PC epidemic that avoids mentioning "Islam," "Militant" AND "Terrorism" at all costs only hurts Trump but helps Xlinton.
Let's call it what it is: TYRANNY. Underwritten, organized and endorsed by the current regime. And STILL this overt in-your-face fascism is dismissed by the RNC-GOPe; These facetious twits like Ryan and Romney tell the people that "Hate" Donald Trump is the fascist threat.
If the GOPe succeeds in sabotaging Trump's campaign as they endorse a criminal fascist, we can count on another 8 years of continued destruction of what will be a dead Republic.
At what point does Trump get right to that stark truth and point?
I would call it tyranny if these people actually knew what they where doing.
They don’t know any different. It’s insanity in its literal sense. We are witnessing a collective case of “Sudden Acceleration Syndrome”. They are 100% convinced their foot is on the brake, when in fact, it is on the gas pedal. And nobody can tell them anything different.
That said, are there Liberal/Progressive leaders that are leveraging the mass dilutions for their own political gains?
Yes.
Is it some grand conspiracy?
Not likely.
More likely that these so-called leaders simply do not care about anything, including our Country, other than their ability to be in charge.
We have allowed our educational and media institutions to so thoroughly dumb down our populace that virtually anybody in a leadership position can extend their influence.
What would you do if you knew that the majority of the people and the media were completely clueless?
Educate them?
or
Tell them what they want to hear for votes?
These liberal/progressive/Democrats have been handed the keys to the Kingdom by our inability or unwillingness to challenge and destroy their concepts of relativism.
If you consider the path of least resistance among our political leaders given the current state of our culture, this is what we should expect.
They own virtually every aspect of our lives.
We are well beyond the tipping point.
Trump has just only cracked the ice against our embedded PC world. Can he lead the charge in the herculean effort to undo 60 years of indoctrination of relativism?
I don’t know.
What I do know is that if we can’t reestablish even a basic sense of objective morality, objective truth or our ability to define right from wrong, we are toast.
If you're referring to our overlords, they do. In spades.
They are 100% convinced their foot is on the brake, when in fact, it is on the gas pedal. And nobody can tell them anything different.
That's the way you see it. The way I'd describe it, the GOPe has gassed up the tank for themselves, the Dems, and the New World Order syndicate of elites since Reagan's Admin left.
Is it some grand conspiracy? Not likely.
There is in a sense that any savvy observer of Western Culture has witnessed an obvious bi-partisan effort to destroy personal and national sovereignty. With impunity. Without accountability or consent.
What would you do if you knew that the majority of the people and the media were completely clueless? Educate them? or Tell them what they want to hear for votes?
As a political reptile obsessed only with power, the latter. Which is why BOTH parties are corrupt and evil beyond redemption.
What I do know is that if we can’t reestablish even a basic sense of objective morality, objective truth or our ability to define right from wrong, we are toast.
Down is up, lies are truth, evil is good. Isaiah 5:20 is in effect. You and I both know this is the case.
Do you prefer your toast light or dark?
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