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Why go to college?
This video does a good job of demonstrating why I'm glad I was forced to quit college years ago...
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His undercover videos are hilarious! My favorite part was the "History" professor who was totally ignorant about how the slave trade worked (5:55 in the video). And that Ben Franklin scene at the end was the best!
The only thing he didn't cover that I wish he had is the large and very vicious anti-semite contingent that plagues just about every liberal university on the planet. When I was in college, I was harassed whenever I wore my Star of David necklace or mentioned that I was Jewish. People I didn't even know would get in my face and scream "DO YOU CONDEMN APARTHEID ISREAL!? YOU SHOULD!!! AREN'T YOU ASHAMED OF WHAT 'YOUR PEOPLE' ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS!? AREN'T YOU!? DON'T YOU HATE BUSH FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL!?". That was the pivot point that changed my political outlook around.
Oh well. Maybe he's saving that subject for another video.
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His undercover videos are hilarious! My favorite part was the "History" professor who was totally ignorant about how the slave trade worked (5:55 in the video). And that Ben Franklin scene at the end was the best!
The only thing he didn't cover that I wish he had is the large and very vicious anti-semite contingent that plagues just about every liberal university on the planet. When I was in college, I was harassed whenever I wore my Star of David necklace or mentioned that I was Jewish. People I didn't even know would get in my face and scream "DO YOU CONDEMN APARTHEID ISREAL!? YOU SHOULD!!! AREN'T YOU ASHAMED OF WHAT 'YOUR PEOPLE' ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS!? AREN'T YOU!? DON'T YOU HATE BUSH FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL!?". That was the pivot point that changed my political outlook around.
Oh well. Maybe he's saving that subject for another video.
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As much as it shames me to admit this, I was one of those closed-minded people who believed religious people are intolerant back when I was a dumb teenager. It took that bad experience in college to open my eyes.
After Prop 8 (the California amendment banning gay marriage a second time) was passed, Mormon churches in California were subject to protests and threats of violence because one major LDS church here promoted it. My dorm mates in Denver went on and on about how awful "those religious bigots in California" are. But the statistics revealed that it was actually the Black and Latino voters who got prop 8 passed (those groups turned out in record numbers just to vote for Obama).
When I told my dorm mates about the statistics, they just said, "Yeah well...they voted that way because the Mormons spread lies about Prop 8 to those communities!" :P
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My gosh, Proposition 8! I was still down in Florida during that, but a lot of the LDS kids down there were up in arms about it, including my roommate. (Straight out of Utah, she'd never known anything but life in Utah. Needless to say, she wasn't always fun to be around.) I could see it from both sides. I do agree that homosexual couples should be privy to the same benefits as heterosexual (MARRIED) couples, but I have to draw the line at calling both marriage. 'Marriage' is a touchy subject with me since the original meaning was a covenant between a man, a woman, and God. Modern days have done a great job of excluding God from marriage (which might be why marriages fail more often than not anymore), so to most people marriage doesn't mean what it should. If I had my way, no one would get to call civil unions 'marriage' unless they actually did wed in a religious institution with the original intent for marriage - regardless of sexual persuasion.
Anyway, I did meet a man from California during my off day playing in one of the parks. We got to talking about Proposition 8 (to be truthful, I was hoping to get an idea of what was happening in California) and I loved his response. He was telling me how he had LDS friends himself, so he understood why they were doing what they were doing, even if he himself didn't agree with it. Just because they differed on that stance didn't mean he was going to demonize them. I wish there were more people like him! (I'm kind of bitter about the whole thing though since after everything was said and done and people started targeting the LDS church, none of the other religions that had banded together with the LDS church seemed to do anything to deflect the hate.)
I'd be really curious to know about these 'lies'. If one cracks open the Bible and reads about things like Sodom and Gomorrah, people might better understand why so many religious groups are opposed to condoning homosexual behavior. It doesn't fit with current thoughts and attitudes, no, but it didn't at the time, either. And African-American and Hispanic people are not stupid! I've read more than a few news reports on Christians in Africa who are appalled at how the church they joined has accepted homosexuality. They didn't need "Mormon lies" to know what's right and wrong according to their religion. -_-
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I was living in Colorado when most of the Prop 8 backlash happened; but I kept up with it by checking out the local paper online. And it was infuriating how the anti-prop 8 people either pretended the Black and Hispanic voting block wasn't a factor or treated those groups like brain dead sheep who were led astray by a slick LDS marketing campaign.
However, I think it happened that way simply because Mormons are easier targets. Those mostly white, affluent protesters sure as heck weren't going to march through Compton or threaten to blow up Black and Hispanic churches!
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Mormons are easy targets. Might as well sit us down next to Jewish people. -_- We even lost out on getting a possible presidential candidate who knew how to fix broken systems because, "OH NOES, HE'S NOT CHRISTIAN!", nevermind that, again, he knows how to fix broken systems. I still wonder what is wrong with people who will only vote for a president who is Christian. What about all the other people in this country?! (And yeah, easier to slap hate on what you perceive as a majority race instead of a minority - too bad the LDS church has people of all racial backgrounds as members!)
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...unfortunately, Conservatives under the age of 40 aren't as easy to find as their middle-aged and elderly counterparts. :P
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I know that one all too well. My friends all back home are liberal. They took great delight in tearing President Bush apart for the stupidest things, and while I didn't love the man, I couldn't agree with what people did to him. And now that we have Obama I'm not hearing much of anything (yet this feeling of dread in me grows). I'd still never call myself a conservative, but I cannot even begin to understand being liberal.