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It is a very good possibly that these same students could easily answer tough math questions. There has been since the last four decades a tacit agreement between the science departments and the softer disciplines: the students could take all the hard science courses unhindered—but the postmodernist crazies must facilitate their liberal arts education. Needless to add, the study of American history is a soft science area of study.
According to Wikipedia Abraham Lincoln was indeed in the Whig party. The nice young lady got it right. Perhaps a little more fact-checking is in order?
Just to note: World War II did not end the Great Depression. http://blog.mises.org/archives/009129.asp
Go to any school and you’ll get the same type of response. History and politics aren’t most people’s favorite subjects at any grade level. It’s not about liberal or conservative, it’s about the poor shape of our educational system across the board.
Lincoln was a Whig before that party morfied into the Republican party. But consider this, all the students liked Lincoln. Yet Lincoln did more to distroy the constitution than any other president until Wilson and FDR. In short, the wrong side won the Civil War. Now you will say, but “he freed the slaves”. Wrong, Lincoln worked tirelessly to make sure slavery was maintain in the US which technically was as much a slave nation as the Confederate States. Those states that did not endorse slavery had laws markedly limiting the rights of blacks if not excluding them from the state completely. Lincoln was also vigoruosly working on getting the slave moved to Africa or Haiti. His attitude toward the Indians was to kill as many as possible, this is an issue not well known. Lincoln arrested congressmen who opposed him and closed newspapers that represented thought different from his. Marx sent Lincoln a letter extolling his governing. So this is the man students respect.
“It is a very good possibly that these same students could easily answer tough math questions.”
Uh no. many university degrees only require what we used to consider to be remedial high school math (ironically) college algebra. No Trig. No Calc (and we then expect them to grock statistics), Even certain science programs such as “Environmental Science,” and hell even some Biology programs, won’t require you to advance beyond beyond trig.
In order for this to be fair, you’d have to go to Brigham Young or Liberty University and ask them the same questions. I’m sure you’d get about the same number of right/wrong answers.
Also, any student that goes to UC Berkeley is probably already left-leaning, just as any student that goes to Oral Roberts University is most likely already conservative. This was a great “undercover” piece. It has no more thought behind it than an America’s Funniest Home Video segment.
I do not think a comparison with a comparable conservative university is necessary. For the longest time, liberals have attempted to pass themselves off as the intelligentsia of society; that they follow their agenda because it is the more intelligent route. On the internet, you see liberals constantly talking down to others, following the assumption that ALL intellectual merit lies on their side.
This video only exposes that this is indeed not the case, and exposes this as a reflection of their attitudes rather than reality. In my opinion, liberals tend to consider morality from a deontological perspective – that their personal desire to do good is what’s important, with no importance attached to the destructive consequences of their policies. Thus they place their intentions above reality. This seems to be a philosophy based on mysticism… an anti-intellectual movement. Note the woman says, “War never solves anything.” This is not a statement that can be reasonably derived from an unbiased examination of history.
I think this is more exemplary of how stupid Crowder is.
A) There are about 35,000 students at UC Berkeley. Either Crowder talked to four of them and gave us unvarnished footage. Or Crowder talked to a lot more of them and edited the footage to prove his [rather lame and silly] point.
B) The last part made me laugh. In a hurry to prove that your research methods are awful, Self-Pwnage Media. The tuition at Berkeley is not 28,000 dollars. The tuition at UC Berekely, is in fact, at most 10,000 dollars a year; a little over 4,000 dollars a semester for residents of California, with a mandatory requirement to purchase insurance, which can raise that number considerably upwards of five thousand. The ease by which this information is attainable can be seen by googling “tuition” “uc berkeley”. Indeed, Crowder’s question about whether he would find any idiots at UC Berkeley can be answered by one simple truism that is uniquley applicable to Crowder–”wherever you go, there you are”. Thanks for the laughs Selp Pwnage Media. You keep putting a smile on my face.