Most people in this country could use this sort of education. Ask any American who Batista was, or who Mossadegh was and they almost certainly won’t know. Ask them what the catalyst for the Taiwan situation was and they won’t know. Likewise, ask them to explain the conflict in Israel and the origins of it. Most Americans feel like they know about these issues - but they don’t. I remember polling post 9/11 and most Americans couldn’t find Afghanistan or Iraq on a map…but they’re had strong opinions on it.
In my opinion, if you can’t describe both sides of an issue you don’t understand it well enough to have an opinion on it. Regardless of whether I agree with you or not.
The power grab has been impeccably executed. Preach “kindness”, virtue signal constantly about the preference for weakness, dehumanize oppositions through labeling - till cancelled, take over teachers unions, infiltrate universities in need of money with soft curricula that indoctrinate for advocacy and moral relativism, appeal to narcissistic tendencies, and claim all we value will end otherwise.
And what if the scorpion had to warn the frog that he was planning to sting him mid-river? :)
This should extend beyond schools and be applied to journalists, politicians, and pundits.
Yes, I definitely agree
Most people in this country could use this sort of education. Ask any American who Batista was, or who Mossadegh was and they almost certainly won’t know. Ask them what the catalyst for the Taiwan situation was and they won’t know. Likewise, ask them to explain the conflict in Israel and the origins of it. Most Americans feel like they know about these issues - but they don’t. I remember polling post 9/11 and most Americans couldn’t find Afghanistan or Iraq on a map…but they’re had strong opinions on it.
In my opinion, if you can’t describe both sides of an issue you don’t understand it well enough to have an opinion on it. Regardless of whether I agree with you or not.
Well said. And yes, in some respects the ignorance isn't so bad. Things go south when ignorance is paired with confidence.
Which one?
Well, hopefully all of them! Or at least most. Or some. ;)
“You might think Warren Smith would have been promoted to school principal or poached by a major university, but no. He was fired. “
What else is there to say. Comply or die. But somehow this isn’t communism?
Yeah it often feels like we're just dealing with faddish new versions of the same old Marxism
The power grab has been impeccably executed. Preach “kindness”, virtue signal constantly about the preference for weakness, dehumanize oppositions through labeling - till cancelled, take over teachers unions, infiltrate universities in need of money with soft curricula that indoctrinate for advocacy and moral relativism, appeal to narcissistic tendencies, and claim all we value will end otherwise.
I don't think there's been an original thought on a college campus since the turn of the century.
ha -- probably right. If one did pop up, the heretic would be removed.
Solemn faculty judges would pronounce all pro-Jewish positions illogical. Of course.