This is how critical theory works

[Biggie Smiles]

And this is how learning to think works (I know most of you won't read it, but it's here for anyone with a desire to be smarter):

Leonard Pitts Jr.
Fri, June 25, 2021, 2:01 PM

I owe a lot to Gary Mahoney.

He was the campus conservative back in the middle ’70s, when I was a student at the University of Southern California and we went at it hammer and tongs a few times on the opinion pages of the Daily Trojan. I no longer recall the details of our disagreements. What I do remember is realizing that he was good and that I had to up my game — tighten my reasoning, sharpen my logic — if I hoped to stay in the ring with him.

He made me better in the same way college itself did. Nearly five decades later, I value those years less for any specific thing I learned in class than for the fact that I learned how to think. Not “what” to think, but how, i.e., how to gather and evaluate information, how to analyze and extrapolate from it, how to defend my ideas in the scrum of intellectual conflict.

That’s a lesson students will be denied if Republicans like Ron DeSantis get their way. Last week, Florida’s governor signed a bill requiring the state’s public colleges and universities to survey students and faculty on their ideological beliefs. The aim, he claims, is to prevent schools from “indoctrinating” students. DeSantis has hinted that those failing to show “intellectual diversity” will face budget cuts.

You may gauge the sincerity of his commitment to that diversity by the fact that this comes two weeks after he pushed to ban the teaching of critical race theory — an academic framework originated by legal scholars over 40 years ago. Like other states where similar restrictions are becoming law, Florida seeks not to further intellectual diversity, but to prevent it.

Meaning, it aims to protect kids raised on mom and dad’s steady diet of Fox “News” and Breitbart from the shock of having any ideas they’ve thereby imbibed challenged in the outside world. Which is hypocritical on its face. After all, conservatives once — not unreasonably — chided liberals for trying to bubble-wrap students with trigger warnings and safe spaces. Now they use force of law to do the very same thing.

It should go without saying that it’s none of the state’s business what you or I think. It should be likewise obvious that this law will stifle debate and muzzle instructors and is thus antithetical to the mission of our colleges and universities.

There is no mystery why conservatives find education dangerous. A 2015 Pew Research Center study quantified that the better educated one is, the more likely one is to hold liberal beliefs. But I’d argue, contrary to what conservatives seem to feel, that’s not because of bullying professors shouting left-wing dogma. Rather, it’s because once you learn how to think, you’re less susceptible to thin reasoning and easy answers. And increasingly, that’s all conservatism’s got.

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Completely circular reasoning. Even 20 years ago it wasn't safe to be a conservative on campus. I am sure it is worse now. You learned quickly what you could and could not say.

How is that circular reasoning?

How has it ever been unsafe to be a conservative on campus? Conservatives have probably been in the minority on many (definitely not all) campuses, but my experience as both student and professor is that they have always been the loudest and pushiest and have demanded the most (like demanding good grades without earning them, insisting they are better than others, etc).

Because the academy's purpose is to produce liberals, so of course educated people tend liberal.

Modern academia is nothing more than a system designed to make naturally stupid people like oak and lotus feel smart with a piece of paper

 

[Dove]

Funny how anyone who disagrees with the left wing narrative in any schools feels completely differently than what Lotus just described. Even my own kids have said it's best to just smile and nod.

We had a teacher in Walled Lake Michigan get fired simply for tweeting a pro Trump post.

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[Dove]

There are several videos of left wing teachers berating students. SEVERAL.

Even in 8th grade my own daughter had a teacher who pushed his left wing doctrine on the students. She used to challenge him frequently. I have videos of that as well but I'm clearly not gonna share them.

 

[Seamajor]

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And this is how learning to think works (I know most of you won't read it, but it's here for anyone with a desire to be smarter):

Leonard Pitts Jr.
Fri, June 25, 2021, 2:01 PM

I owe a lot to Gary Mahoney.

He was the campus conservative back in the middle ’70s, when I was a student at the University of Southern California and we went at it hammer and tongs a few times on the opinion pages of the Daily Trojan. I no longer recall the details of our disagreements. What I do remember is realizing that he was good and that I had to up my game — tighten my reasoning, sharpen my logic — if I hoped to stay in the ring with him.

He made me better in the same way college itself did. Nearly five decades later, I value those years less for any specific thing I learned in class than for the fact that I learned how to think. Not “what” to think, but how, i.e., how to gather and evaluate information, how to analyze and extrapolate from it, how to defend my ideas in the scrum of intellectual conflict.

That’s a lesson students will be denied if Republicans like Ron DeSantis get their way. Last week, Florida’s governor signed a bill requiring the state’s public colleges and universities to survey students and faculty on their ideological beliefs. The aim, he claims, is to prevent schools from “indoctrinating” students. DeSantis has hinted that those failing to show “intellectual diversity” will face budget cuts.

You may gauge the sincerity of his commitment to that diversity by the fact that this comes two weeks after he pushed to ban the teaching of critical race theory — an academic framework originated by legal scholars over 40 years ago. Like other states where similar restrictions are becoming law, Florida seeks not to further intellectual diversity, but to prevent it.

Meaning, it aims to protect kids raised on mom and dad’s steady diet of Fox “News” and Breitbart from the shock of having any ideas they’ve thereby imbibed challenged in the outside world. Which is hypocritical on its face. After all, conservatives once — not unreasonably — chided liberals for trying to bubble-wrap students with trigger warnings and safe spaces. Now they use force of law to do the very same thing.

It should go without saying that it’s none of the state’s business what you or I think. It should be likewise obvious that this law will stifle debate and muzzle instructors and is thus antithetical to the mission of our colleges and universities.

There is no mystery why conservatives find education dangerous. A 2015 Pew Research Center study quantified that the better educated one is, the more likely one is to hold liberal beliefs. But I’d argue, contrary to what conservatives seem to feel, that’s not because of bullying professors shouting left-wing dogma. Rather, it’s because once you learn how to think, you’re less susceptible to thin reasoning and easy answers. And increasingly, that’s all conservatism’s got.

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Completely circular reasoning. Even 20 years ago it wasn't safe to be a conservative on campus. I am sure it is worse now. You learned quickly what you could and could not say.

How is that circular reasoning?

How has it ever been unsafe to be a conservative on campus? Conservatives have probably been in the minority on many (definitely not all) campuses, but my experience as both student and professor is that they have always been the loudest and pushiest and have demanded the most (like demanding good grades without earning them, insisting they are better than others, etc).

Because the academy's purpose is to produce liberals, so of course educated people tend liberal.

Modern academia is nothing more than a system designed to make naturally stupid people like oak and lotus feel smart with a piece of paper

You’re a laugh a minute Stubby

 

[Dove]

"People like you", smh



on CRT

 

[Dove]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

 

[Dove]

This is how propaganda brainwashed leftists are. They get completely unhinged and dont listen to anyone. They spew and scream



And punch children

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Open minded. Deep critical thinkers.

 

[Adam Hitler]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

 

[Adam Hitler]

"People like you", smh



on CRT

But but but, @LotusBud said that CRT and woke politics aren't being taught in the classroom????

Now I dont know what to believe, because she's normally spot on about everything!!!

Lulz

 

[Adam Hitler]

That 15 yr old kid just wiped the floor with Lotusbud and her retarded denial routine, aswell as his entire school board and administration, what a legend.

 

[Adam Hitler]

@Dove I think you'll enjoy this one!

 

[Adam Hitler]

@LotusBud this one's for your hysterical hippy ass;

 

[Adam Hitler]

The Parallels Between Critical Race Theory and Communism

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It is fair to say that CRT is a variant of Communism. While the Soviets used class to divide people, CRT uses race. But the goal is the same … to keep the populace divided and distracted in order to allow the elites to have their way.

 

[LotusBud]

Your collective hysteria over CRT demonstrates your complete lack of understanding of the concept of education AND free speech

. Duhv claims to understand vaccine hesitancy among blacks due to historical events
but can't understand how the chain of events originating with slavery in the US could possibly effect the black experience today.
. More "consistent" thinking by the white supremacist cons defining their own special biases.

Very salient point ^^^

 

[Adam Hitler]

^^Completely ignores all the opposing viewpoints LOL.

 

[deport_liberals]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

Appalling. It is always the left shutting down debates. Just like at cbt.

 

[LotusBud]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

Appalling. It is always the left shutting down debates. Just like at cbt.

That's utter bullshit. You people are trying to OUTLAW speech. You're trying to outlaw discussion of critical theories.

 

[deport_liberals]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

Appalling. It is always the left shutting down debates. Just like at cbt.

That's utter bullshit. You people are trying to OUTLAW speech. You're trying to outlaw discussion of critical theories.

Teachers should not kick out students for saying their opinions. Teachers shouldn't even have political opinions.

 

[SHAMPAIN]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I wish that kid knew about the SNP because that Scottish fud defo supprts them! He could've induced all kinds of rage ot of that simp!

 

[Phester0boyle]

Blacks refuse the vax and the news claims the blacks are getting hit with the rona at a higher rate than whites?
WTF over..of Course

 

[deport_liberals]

Blacks refuse the vax and the news claims the blacks are getting hit with the rona at a higher rate than whites?
WTF over..of Course

Personally I am fed up with blacks. It really never ends does it.

 

[Adam Hitler]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

Appalling. It is always the left shutting down debates. Just like at cbt.

That's utter bullshit. You people are trying to OUTLAW speech. You're trying to outlaw discussion of critical theories.

CRT promotes the theory of White Privilege, if the notion of black, brown, yellow or Jewish privilege was being taught, you would brand it racist hate, but as always, when whites are being criticised, you leftist tards champion it and regard it as 'progressive thinking'.

It's just one double standard after another with you clowns.....

 

[LotusBud]

Blacks refuse the vax and the news claims the blacks are getting hit with the rona at a higher rate than whites?
WTF over..of Course

You're a fool, aren't you? Blacks were dying at higher rates before there even was a vaccine. SMDH

 

[LotusBud]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

Appalling. It is always the left shutting down debates. Just like at cbt.

That's utter bullshit. You people are trying to OUTLAW speech. You're trying to outlaw discussion of critical theories.

Teachers should not kick out students for saying their opinions. Teachers shouldn't even have political opinions.

No. Of course they shouldn't kick out students for expressing their opinions. Not ever. But one bad teacher (if that really did happen) doesn't mean you need to run around preventing all teachers from teaching differing theories. THAT is censorship, straight up.

 

[Holliday1881]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

Appalling. It is always the left shutting down debates. Just like at cbt.

That's utter bullshit. You people are trying to OUTLAW speech. You're trying to outlaw discussion of critical theories.

There was a speaker on (maybe on Moth) the radio the other day. A survivor of Stalin's campaign to disappear dissidents. His crime was reading Hemingway and Steinbeck. He was in his 90's - the last of that group with which he was associated (who were non-political). It was chilling to think, since I have plenty Hemingway and Steinbeck here what might have happened had Trump been reelected.

 

[Joe]

There are many different theoretical schools. When one takes a theory class in college, one usually gets an overview of these differing theories. Like I said, there are MANY, and they change over time. The point of TEACHING them is not to agree with and adopt all of them, but simply to know and understand them. You know, kind of like teaching what happened in history. Just because you learn about/study a movement in history, doesn't mean you agree with it and want to adopt it.

Most schools of critical theory have something valuable to teach us, even if there are aspects that we completely disagree with. Some of these theories are conservative in nature. Strangley, liberals aren't melting down and insisting they not be taught.

Your collective hysteria over CRT demonstrates your complete lack of understanding of the concept of education AND free speech. It's remarkable how witless you people are. I will never understand how people can be so uninformed.

Critical Race Theory by the person who coined the term:

 

[Joe]

 

[Lokmar]

Blacks refuse the vax and the news claims the blacks are getting hit with the rona at a higher rate than whites?
WTF over..of Course

You're a fool, aren't you? Blacks were dying at higher rates before there even was a vaccine. SMDH

Why's that? Because the white racist virus or because niggers make poor life choices?

 

[Holliday1881]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

Appalling. It is always the left shutting down debates. Just like at cbt.

That's utter bullshit. You people are trying to OUTLAW speech. You're trying to outlaw discussion of critical theories.

Cons just need to get down with a good old-fashion book burning.

 

[SHAMPAIN]

Kicked out of class for not repeating woke dogma.

I remember that one, if I was the kid's dad I'd have been in that school on the same day and put that PC lefty teacher in his place.

Appalling. It is always the left shutting down debates. Just like at cbt.

That's utter bullshit. You people are trying to OUTLAW speech. You're trying to outlaw discussion of critical theories.

There was a speaker on (maybe on Moth) the radio the other day. A survivor of Stalin's campaign to disappear dissidents. His crime was reading Hemingway and Steinbeck. He was in his 90's - the last of that group with which he was associated (who were non-political). It was chilling to think, since I have plenty Hemingway and Steinbeck here what might have happened had Trump been reelected.

Go eat a grenade you commie buttfucker! lol Nobody cares about your opinion here or elsewhere... And I’m enjoying watching your world fall apart and the best part is that all of you faggots are too stupid to see it happening right in front of you... The SILENT MAJORITY (Actual Humans, in other words) will ALWAYS fight to the death to maintain commonsense milquetoast centrism and fortify their place within the status quo... Politicians pretend to be in favour of tearing the system down, because you’re stupid enough to be motivated by such obvious balderdash... Revolutionaries LARP and play and pretend and daydream and frolick about the country, believing the most hilarious of lies, and literally ALWAYS die for nothing... The lie is what kills them... That lie is simply this: (You matter. Your vote counts. You have rights. Freedom exists. Progress must happen…) yada yada…essentially they drink the poison of egoism down to the last drop and it intoxicates them so deeply that they can’t go back… Nihilism is the logical endgame of Western Culture... When you’ve lived enough and done enough and educated yourself beyond your own giveAshit level and you’ve digested the culture around you, though you may go thru hundreds of phases and iterations of “selves” by the end of it all, what you’ll find waiting for you is the sucking noise enveloped in cobalt black that eats everything edible, itself included…and as even the very atoms comprising your physical being are ripped apart and cast into the oceans of nothingness and ruin, multiverse after multiverse manhandled and shitcanned so casually and quietly and expertly that sentient creatures have neither time nor understanding enough to squall, the one great truth of all truths will be so clear to any vehicle of consciousness, and that is; LIFE HAS NO OBJECTIVE MEANING OR PURPOSE AND WAS ONLY INTERESTING OR IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THAT FACT. WE HAVE WASTED EVERY LIFE...

FUCKIN