Liberal Brainwashing
May. 24th, 2004 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tabular_rasaI was reading an article about how this man wrote a book about how colleges are actually brainwashing children into being liberal. I think that's kind of funny . . . though it's not entirely impossible, after all. Look at Communism. Something so good-sounding turned out to be just the opposite of what it was meant to be.
They went on about a great ultimatum . . . some students have been censored for racial comments and things . . . so then there's this: If you're a liberal college and you are advocating acceptance and tolerance, but you are also an advocate of free speech, what do you do if a child under your care wants to do that?
Thoughts? It made me think . . .
So I did. In the shower, lol . . . and I came to a conclusion, it could change at some point, anyway . . . I say let them . . . the most you can do is TEACH them otherwise. Besides, free speech is the law. Tolerance is nice, but it's not under the law that you CAN'T have a biased opinion of someone. It's advised not to . . . and that's the most you can do, advise. Plus, a lot of people (like me) prefer to be advised, rather than forced-- it makes us work with it better.
I wonder if our society is actually shaping this . . . this divisor between youth and age . . . that we except the youth and the children to be young and idealistic, to be the Vietnam generation every generation, to be pacifists and hippis and world citizens. We see our own youth in them. We miss it; we wish we were just as idealistic as them and so we encourage it-- off basis, of course, pretending we are so much wiser, we know better, us with our disillusions and bitterness and selfishness. Our need for security. Our inability to risk our anythings to gain everyone's everythings.
Why the heck did I just write that as if I were the old person looking back? Holy crap, I'm the idealistic person, lol . . .
It sort of reminds me of this time in my art class . . . the teacher said something about how he would try not to be racist but it was hard. Everyone was all quite apalled. Yet now that I think of it, it actually was a perfectly reasonable action. He's entitled to have such opinions (though maybe it's not very wise to display them in front of the class-- most of which were minorities), and he's entitled to state them under free speech (though perhaps not under the school-- they do like to restrict that, don't they?), and as long as he doesn't act on these opinions, he is fine. You're entitled to be reluctant about following the law. You're entitled to complain and rant and slander it. Just do it, though-- and you won't have any problems. Of course, maybe I am giving him more credit for intelligence than he should get, but hey . . .
I am such a law-abider. I only complain-- but I still do.
I guess I'm saving up for something really worth it. After all, isn't it all the more wowing to have the GOOD girl make a statement by going against the law, when she's never done anything before bad in her life?
They went on about a great ultimatum . . . some students have been censored for racial comments and things . . . so then there's this: If you're a liberal college and you are advocating acceptance and tolerance, but you are also an advocate of free speech, what do you do if a child under your care wants to do that?
Thoughts? It made me think . . .
So I did. In the shower, lol . . . and I came to a conclusion, it could change at some point, anyway . . . I say let them . . . the most you can do is TEACH them otherwise. Besides, free speech is the law. Tolerance is nice, but it's not under the law that you CAN'T have a biased opinion of someone. It's advised not to . . . and that's the most you can do, advise. Plus, a lot of people (like me) prefer to be advised, rather than forced-- it makes us work with it better.
I wonder if our society is actually shaping this . . . this divisor between youth and age . . . that we except the youth and the children to be young and idealistic, to be the Vietnam generation every generation, to be pacifists and hippis and world citizens. We see our own youth in them. We miss it; we wish we were just as idealistic as them and so we encourage it-- off basis, of course, pretending we are so much wiser, we know better, us with our disillusions and bitterness and selfishness. Our need for security. Our inability to risk our anythings to gain everyone's everythings.
Why the heck did I just write that as if I were the old person looking back? Holy crap, I'm the idealistic person, lol . . .
It sort of reminds me of this time in my art class . . . the teacher said something about how he would try not to be racist but it was hard. Everyone was all quite apalled. Yet now that I think of it, it actually was a perfectly reasonable action. He's entitled to have such opinions (though maybe it's not very wise to display them in front of the class-- most of which were minorities), and he's entitled to state them under free speech (though perhaps not under the school-- they do like to restrict that, don't they?), and as long as he doesn't act on these opinions, he is fine. You're entitled to be reluctant about following the law. You're entitled to complain and rant and slander it. Just do it, though-- and you won't have any problems. Of course, maybe I am giving him more credit for intelligence than he should get, but hey . . .
I am such a law-abider. I only complain-- but I still do.
I guess I'm saving up for something really worth it. After all, isn't it all the more wowing to have the GOOD girl make a statement by going against the law, when she's never done anything before bad in her life?
