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re: Why most academics lean left
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:14 am to Robin Masters
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:14 am to Robin Masters
So how is this for a compromise: The Right admit the Left are "smarter", but the Left admit the Right are better at actually getting shite done.....and better at leading the country....fair enough?
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Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:15 am to Ebbandflow
quote:So let's bring this together. Was it actually advantageous in some ways for you to begin college late? If so, why?
Why didn't start college until I was 22 so I know what it's like
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:15 am to oogabooga68
quote:But the left isn’t “smarter” than the right. That’s just nonsense.
So how is this for a compromise: The Right admit the Left are "smarter", but the Left admit the Right are better at actually getting shite done.....and better at leading the country....fair enough?
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:15 am to Ebbandflow
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So you believe welding makes one smarter than . . .
See - I didn't say that - I compared a welder (just a random skilled profession that doesn't 'require' a college degree) to a graduate with a degree in something like "gender studies' (another random choice of what I consider waste-of-time-and-money degrees)
Are you implying that a degree in 'gender studies' makes one smarter than a welder?
If your car broke down in the middle of the desert, which would you rather have as a passenger?
If If you wanted to purchase an air-conditioner, which would you ask for recommendations?
If you needed an assistant to help you coach your son's baseball team, which would you ask?
If you wanted to know how long it would take to drive to Alaska, which would you ask?
If you broke your leg falling off a ladder, which would you want to assist you to the hospital?
If you needed to know whether the ground wire was red, green, black, or white which would you ask?
If you wanted to know which pronoun to use when confronted with a rainbow haired person sporting a five-clock shadow and mascara, dressed in a mini-skirt and thigh-high boots, which would you ask.
If you wanted to know exactly how many different combinations of birth facts, parental pressure, mental instabilities, sexual proclivities, surgical process there might be which would you ask?
If you wanted to know how many days it took Michaelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel which would you ask?
etc
'smartness' is not only knowledge of facts, but in understanding how those facts can be applied effectively to the world as it exists.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:16 am to Robin Masters
It's actually because they were picked on as children.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:18 am to Ebbandflow
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But that same welder would probably be smarter if we went to school and learned 120 + curriculum hours in and organized and thoughtful environment.
Smarter how?
Do you think the fact that he can regurgitate some garbage he read in a book makes them "smarter"?
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:21 am to MMauler
Remember, the Left were certain Barak Obama's ability to read coherently from a teleprompter was proof he was an intellectual giant....he was not.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:22 am to MMauler
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Do you think the fact that he can regurgitate some garbage he read in a book makes them "smarter"?
The most important thing to understand about modern Leftists is that style over substance is the essence of their cult-like beliefs....Ebb is proof.
Leftists are talkers, Conservatives are do-ers.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:23 am to Robin Masters
My kid just had his Honors final - it’s a discussion oriented class that replaces an English course. One of the questions: If a family member at a holiday dinner said they don’t believe in climate change, what would your response be (based on cited sources that were previously studied)?
Indoctrination at its finest.
Indoctrination at its finest.
This post was edited on 12/10/18 at 7:24 am
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:29 am to TigrrrDad
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Indoctrination at its finest.
Modern day "Intellectualism" is a circle-jerk.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:34 am to TigrrrDad
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If a family member at a holiday dinner said they don’t believe in climate change, what would your response be (based on cited sources that were previously studied)?
I'd gladly let my kid respond with "my family member is right" and take the 0.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:46 am to TigrrrDad
quote:
My kid just had his Honors final - it’s a discussion oriented class that replaces an English course. One of the questions: If a family member at a holiday dinner said they don’t believe in climate change, what would your response be (based on cited sources that were previously studied)?
Goebbels would be proud of this level of propaganda. Also remember that the “family member” is bad. It will make it easier to send them to the “showers” someday.
This post was edited on 12/10/18 at 7:48 am
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:55 am to TigrrrDad
quote:Presumably your response would be to chuckle and shake your head. Climates change. Period. Denying that is silly.
If a family member at a holiday dinner said they don’t believe in climate change, what would your response be
Now if the discussion related to anthropogenic origins, that would be entirely different.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:59 am to Ebbandflow
quote:
You basically just said Everything's Relative as long as we all agree on it.
Nope. Just showed how your implication that nothing is reality until it is first theorized is absolute codswallop.
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It doesn't mean they shouldn't keep working towards it.
Never said otherwise. My point is their theories are counterproductive to their goal.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:05 am to oogabooga68
quote:
The Right admit the Left are "smarter"
Facts not in evidence.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:05 am to ChineseBandit58
quote:
See - I didn't say that - I compared a welder (just a random skilled profession that doesn't 'require' a college degree) to a graduate with a degree in something like "gender studies' (another random choice of what I consider waste-of-time-and-money degrees)
Are you implying that a degree in 'gender studies' makes one smarter than a welder?
What I'm saying is if you took the same person and then one timeline had them go learn to be a welder and then another timeline had them go through over a hundred and twenty College curriculum hours of Base courses all the way through General women's studies, that I would think the ladder would have learned much more about how to think and the world around them. The welder version of this person would be very smart about a limited scope of things in comparison.
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smartness' is not only knowledge of facts, but in understanding how those facts can be applied effectively to the world as it exists.
And you learn how to do both in college. Someone majoring in general women's studies doesn't take that many classes pertaining to that particular subject.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:09 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Never said otherwise. My point is their theories are counterproductive to their goal.
Not a big fan of the scientific method huh?
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Nope. Just showed how your implication that nothing is reality until it is first theorized is absolute codswallop.
I don't think you really understand my reality very well.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:11 am to Ebbandflow
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Not a big fan of the scientific method huh?
Never said or implied that, either, but keep deflecting.
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I don't think you really understand my reality very well.
Your reality is steeped in racism so I'm happy to exist with only a cursory knowledge of that hellscape you call your "reality"
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:11 am to Ebbandflow
quote:
Not a big fan of the scientific method huh?
quote:quote:Insofar as it assumes some importance, your observation is a bit like assuming the most rudiment hypothesis represents substantial progress to an endpoint.
Thats how things start the process of coming into reality.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:12 am to Ebbandflow
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the ladder
120 units would make that one smart ladder.
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