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Who Made Me (Let Me) Think For Myself

Jun 17, 2022

We covered Marriage Equality on Friday and they were pretty blown away.

It always amazes me that college requires so little of my students. My class is the first time a professor actually makes them think, challenges them to think *for themselves*.

One thing I asks them not to do: start a comment with, "As a …., I feel…."

I ask them, why start the sentence that way? Does being a member of xyz "community" give one insight into how "they" all think? Do all members of xyz "community" have the same views? [Of course not !].

If not, then why start the sentence that way? You don't "represent" how "they" all think. You represent what YOU think.

You also represent IF you think. And some of you don't. That ends now.

What unites membership in xyz "community"? Have you ever considered that there is no such thing as "the black community" or the "asian american community" or "the gay community--more commonly called now, LGBT [said really fast] community?"

Can a member of xyz "community" think for herself? Do you have to ask the "leadership" for permission to have an aberrant view?

Can you think for yourself? Are you an individual?

How many know what Lithium is?

[95% raise their hands]

How many know what Modus Ponens is?

[5% raise their hands].

Have you taken Logic? Does your advisor advise you to take logic at some point in your intellectual-development career, otherwise known as "collidge"?

If not, fire your advisor immediately. Like Trump: "You're FIRED."

So, none of them start sentences that way anymore.

And now, they are starting to get rid of the training wheels of Political Correctness and checking in with the authorities of their various "communities". Sheeit.

In other words, they are intellectually growing.

I gave a lecture on the history of Progressivism in America during my--ensconced in my--Marriage Equality lecture.

They were visibly sick to their stomachs as I described, in detail, the history of the Democratic Party.

Picture a giraffe.

Picture a giraffe with its legs swooped out from under it, then its head cut off at the base.

The giraffe is Leftism, slowly dying, right there in the Serengeti of my class. But the giraffe is not some cute thing--it has a clown face on. And is guilty of the worse sins in America and across the world.

My class is now wondering what the hell now. Where do we go from here.

I asked a gay student if being gay gave some special insight that the rest of America lacked into the definition of words. Specifically, marriage.

She eventually admitted, after a half hour of Socratic dialogue, that she had no idea what she was talking about, and that she was just trying to make other people feel bad who don't agree with her.

That is progress.

Now, that is progress.

The Republican Professor

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