Why go to college?
Sep. 21st, 2009 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brendalaThis 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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Date: 2009-09-22 02:34 am (UTC)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. >_>;
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:45 am (UTC)