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

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

My gosh, my brain hurts! I will never profess to knowing everything, but I would never act like I did, either. Seeing this makes me glad I'm not on a liberal campus - even if some students here have slapped me with that label. (They don't know what they're talking about.) Stupidity goes so many ways... (I actually am a Glenn Beck fan though, I'd be curious to read that book.)

I had no idea you were Jewish! That has to be really hard dealing with all the people who have no idea what they're even talking about. (Like the president of Iran declaring the Holocaust as being fake. IDIOT!) I really cannot make sense of it. If anything it only proves the validity of the Bible (or the Torah) since the Jewish people have always been and will always be God's chosen people, and it was made plain that God's people would be persecuted until the end of the world...and all that fun stuff. -_-

I'll admit I'm just LDS myself, but I've always had an affinity to Judaism. People forget that without it, there would be no Christianity! Know that not everyone is going to blame you for something that you should never have been blamed for. (Would that I could say the same for all LDS people...)

Lastly, the moment we as a country stop supporting Israel, I've a feeling that's when the world is truly doomed for destruction. What do all those countries gain by hate?!?

[virus-x.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember when they tried that stuff on me. We had a big political science thing simulating a UN meeting (and accomplished just as much). The subject was the establishment of a 'nuclear free-zone' in the Middle East, like the one in Latin America. I, naturally, didn't agree with it, and they didn't like my reasons. During a break where the national representatives got-together to discuss before voting, plenty of guys tried that 'condemn the violence' thing on me, only to run away when I gave them a litany of instances of unprovoked violence against Israel.

Yeah, no likey.

Oh, and did I mention that school was in Dearborn, MI? Home of the largest Arab population, outside the Arab lands? (Not to mention a hotbed of anti-Israeli/anti-Republican/anti-Bush/anti-Conservative populist liberalism?)

I can't wait until I'm back in school to send them all running for cover, again.

It was really fun when I joined the Arab American activity club to debate the local imam.

Tell you about that, later. It was pretty funny.

[ayarane.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is like an extreme version of the Jaywalking segments. :P

Can't say I've encountered much in terms of anti-semitism though. I'm more inclined to just write people like those you describe off as jerks who are too easily incited and read waaaay too far into such things. >_>;