Posted on 08/11/2018 7:06:22 AM PDT by rktman
....concepts that still help me make sense of the world, like the "racial nadir" — the downturn in American race relations, starting after Reconstruction, that saw the rise of lynchings and the Ku Klux Klan. In doing so, Lies My Teacher Told Me overturned one assumption embedded in the history classes I'd been sitting through all my life: that the United States is constantly ascending from greatness to greatness.
"I started out the new edition with the famous two photographs of the inaugural crowds of this guy named President Obama, his first inauguration, and this guy named President Trump, his first and maybe only inauguration. And you just look at those two photos and they're completely different. There's all kinds of grass and gaps that you see in the Trump photo. ... What that does, I hope, is signal to every reader of the book: Yes, there are such things as facts here. You can see with your own eyes."
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“Everything I needed to learn, I learned in Kindergarten”
Evan Sayet (former Freeper)
HERITAGE FOUNDATION: “How Modern Liberals Think”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c
Anyone unfamiliar with Evan Sayet here are some good links:
Bill Whittle and Evan Sayet Distill the Kinder Garden of Eden in under 12 minutes
This goes really fast so PLEASE pay very close attention
Evan Sayet: Heritage Foundation: Regurgitating the Apple How Modern Liberals "Think" a talk (from 03/05/2007)
Andrew Breitbart called, "One of the five most important conservative speeches ever given"
Evan Sayet: A Deplorable Mind Amazon Prime Video
There are only three reviews:/ Please watch this video and leave a positive review to offset the other two negative reviews
Evan Sayet ~ The Conservative Forum ~ 7-12-2016
Insight regarding progressive hyphenated terms from Evan Sayet at 14:00 but watch the whole thing
Evan Sayet - American Freedom Alliance Intro: International Socialism
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I traded posts with Evan a number of years ago and can’t possibly recall is Freeper handle.
I got the feeling that he became bored with the lack of focus on FR.
Evan occasionally replies to me on email but I would love to read his posting history to walk along the road that led him to his uncommon insight.
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That gives me an idea.
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Would be cool.
Those old Freeper posts, by Evan, are buried in their fleeting history never to be seen again but for some clever Freeper search Savant.
I found this very interesting.
No Science, No Logic and No Morality: Atheism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxz84kS8k4U&t=132s
This is a seven minute snippet of the closing crescendo(enhanced with music even) taken from this much longer 52 minute talk, if you have time to watch the entire thing you won’t regret it.
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I’m a big fan of Peterson.
Those 7 minutes are awesome.
FWIW, I used to teach a diverse group of adults some very complicated stuff.
Stuff that was or could be very profitable for them.
There was always a tendency among my students for me to just cut to the chase. They wanted the solution, the answer, without having to consider the process required.
This is the world in which we live today.
A desire for solutions without context.
Just Google it.
Why bother with context when all their answers are just one or two clicks away?
A Brave New world indeed.
Yes if there is anything I've learned about the process is that taking shortcuts rarely gets you to your destination faster, if at all. Without reading the signs and making corse corrections along the way you can easily lose sight of your objective.
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I don’t need to learn or understand long form math, multiplication or fractions.
Got a calculator and a phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE
President of the United States of America Donald John Trump (I love saying that) was administered the oath at noon and immediately gave about a 22 minute speech.
OK.
Zoom in on the clock tower in the lower right.
https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/trump_inauguration_rtr_img.jpg
Well lookie there, the "inauguration" photo was actually taken at 1:15 pm, about 45 minutes after it was all over.
Apparently the esteemed professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont James Loewen is peddling a load of proglib crap.
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