Why go to college?

[brendala]

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.

Comments

[brendala.livejournal.com]

I was personally more annoyed by the Activist Judge issue surrounding prop 8 than the actual gay marriage issue. Last time Californians voted to define marriage as 'one man, one woman', a couple judges and mayors said "f%#k the voters" and got it overturned.

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!

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for all the Californian conservatives... They have to be hurting a great deal more than the majority of Washington conservatives outside the Seattle/Olympia areas! o_O (Plus, you have all those crazy actors and actresses...)

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!)

[brendala.livejournal.com]

We don't have it quite as bad as you'd think. Aside from the wacky enclaves (LA, Hollywood, Berkley, San Francisco, etc) and the college towns; there are a fair amount of Conservatives here.

...unfortunately, Conservatives under the age of 40 aren't as easy to find as their middle-aged and elderly counterparts. :P

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, bot those enclaves give the rest of you a bad name. I'd be more eager to get in on the Hollywood scene if I didn't have to deal with it.

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.