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11:07 - Let high schoolers and undergraduates educate you
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I'm endlessly glad that the college I went to was as apolitical as it was.
Just think if I'd sent my application essays elsewhere:
"If anybody has a mortarboard, you can move your tassels from right to left, right to left, which is what I hope happened to your politics in the last four years." George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg, at a graduation ceremony
And don't forget to take the Peace Test, evidently aimed at college students, which examines your opinions as to whether military action or killing are ever justified, and then renders a judgment upon you as to how susceptible you are to being "'programmed' for moral disengagement in support of military action" or "easily persuaded to support war without giving it much thought". It then provides you with re-education resources to "boost your moral engagement" and "strengthen your resistance".
As Raoul Ortega says in the LGF comments:
At what point will the Looney Left figure out that insulting people, even when disguised as the "social cognitive theory of moral disengagement," is not a good way to pursuade people to support their views?
And Hhar:
Great. It says I need to hang out with highschool students and undergraduates in order to elevate my conciousness about war and killing things. I'm just so manipulable.
Morons. When I was a highschool student my conciousness was elevated to their liking. Then I did something that adolescents all around the world are supposed to do. I grew the *&%^ up.
"The truth shall make you free" is the motto of my alma mater. Elsewhere, it seems, college is a mental prison from which only a few truly escape.
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Brian Tiemann
