Indoctrinate U, the documentary college campuses want to ban

chuck d wrote:

as an employer, i give two shits whether someone is a communist.

"couldn't give two shits"

chuck d wrote:

i just find it amusing that on a thread discussing college education we've got people who can't spell a simple word like fahrenheit. too much time is wasted worrying about whether people coming out of college are "indoctrinated" and not enough on whether the people coming out of college actually have basic skills. as an employer, i give two shits whether someone is a communist. what pisses me off is when someone with a BA can't spell.

People who can't spell shouldn't piss you off. It's a skill of the past. Spell checkers have rendered it obsolete. People that don't use spell checkers piss me off though, but even that is becoming a thing of that past. With all this text message, shorthand crap, people are realizing that if you can communicate clearly, spelling doesn't matter. Communicating fast and efficiently does. We're on an anonymous message board. It's not like we're writing material for publication.

On the original topic, if there is any indoctrination going on, it's in the churches. It's a societal norm to take your kids to church and indoctrinate them in the bullsh!t at a young age. Crazy!

Well gee, go upstairs and tell Mom about it. Do you think anyone CARES if you're pissed off, or even pissed ON for that matter?

Or take them to the Mosque where they are trained in suicide bombing and beheading Westerners.

Aha, you just proved the point: they can't spell but they are forced to embrace diversity.

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Aha wrote:they are forced to embrace diversity.

Wrong!

I like how it doesn't tell you who any of the people speaking are. How am I supposed to take any of them seriously? The filmmaker could have easily just paid some schmoes on the street to say those things.

I'm sure that isn't the truth, but a well made documentary should cite their sources.

Or wrote:

Or take them to the Mosque where they are trained in suicide bombing and beheading Westerners.

Depends on the Mosque, but sure, any form of indoctrination can be used to make the indoctrinated do crazy sh!t. In the movie Jesus Camp, the lady uses that exact argument to justify her indoctrination of the "Christian soldier" children. They ask children if they would be willing to sacrifice their lives for Jesus and the kids all eagerly raise their hands like it would be some honor. Nutty stuff. They are one step away from strapping a bomb to those kids and telling them to go blow themselves up for Jesus. The kids would do it. All you need is an occupying Muslim force in America, and the "Christian soldiers" in Jesus Camp would be doing the suicide bombings.

Are you aware the linked video was a trailer? I would be willing to bet they tell you who they are in the actual movie, but why would you waste the audience's precious attention in the the trailer with names, titles, schools, 5k PR's, favorite recipes, etc?

orlyfool wrote:

Are you aware the linked video was a trailer? I would be willing to bet they tell you who they are in the actual movie, but why would you waste the audience's precious attention in the the trailer with names, titles, schools, 5k PR's, favorite recipes, etc?

Because first impressions are very important. I think it's good to establish credibility as early as you can. Would a small title telling me who they are interviewing really "waste the audience's precious attention?"

To me it looks like they couldn't find any credible people to talk to, so they don't tell you who is talking. Again, I could be wrong about this. Maybe the people they interviewed are extremely credible. I am skeptical though, because they aren't upfront about it.

Whoops! wrote:

chuck d wrote:

as an employer, i give two shits whether someone is a communist.

"couldn't give two shits"

no, i give two shits. it's just not nearly as important as being able to communicate effectively.

spell checkers have not rendered being able to spell properly obsolete. that's ridiculous. a spell checker is only as good as the person using it.

Just the most current example of a lack of real diversity and a groupthink. Larry Summers, who dared posit the mere possibility that men and women weren't exactly the same in aptitudes towards high level math, gave some more college faculty harpies the vapors -- they were "stunned" -- and was disinvited. Apparently, some presences (not those of radical Muslims or unreformed communists or mass murderers) are outside the pale.

Why on earth would you "give two shits"??

has to do with the line of work i'm in - remember, i wrote "as an employer." someone who is actually a communist probably shouldn't be working here and i would wonder why they were.

God, I hope you're a troll. How far do you take this line of reasoning? The wide-spread availability of calculators mean we don't know how to do math? The internet and wikipedia mean we don't need to know any facts? Books on CD's and the fact that every important piece of literature has been made into a movie means we don't need to know how to read? The fact that we have cars means we don't need to be able to cover long-distances on foot? This, this is why the U.S. is going down the tubes...

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

Spell checkers have rendered it obsolete.

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Yes, he's a RW troll.

yup wrote:

A few replies have already complained about the impromptu interviews...yet I would bet these are the same people who eat up Michael Moore's shit.

Wrong again. I think that presenting ANYONE as unwilling to do an on-the-spot interview with an agenda-driven "journalist" is pointless, whether the interviewer is liberal or conservative. No professional should engage on the record unless they are prepared. If you're a politician at a press conference, it's your job to be prepared for the media; if you're a geography prof getting coffee, tell them to f#ck right off and come back with an appointment.