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[NEWS] Violent UC Berkeley riots force cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos event
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on February 02, 2017, 02:10:01 AM ---Everything in the middle ground looks far left when you're hard-right leaning, to be fair
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you're saying this on the thread where a college campus got destroyed by its own students because a right-wing speaker was coming to host a talk
Nonnel:
america's a lot of things, but skewed to the left it is not.
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 02, 2017, 02:15:10 AM ---you're saying this on the thread where a college campus got destroyed by its own students because a right-wing speaker was coming to host a talk
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I'm saying "The entire system leans to the left" is a pretty big exaggeration on your part. When you're saying "Left", you're really saying "More left than me"
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: Nonnel on February 02, 2017, 02:15:35 AM ---america's a lot of things, but skewed to the left it is not.
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I didn't say America was skewed to the left. American higher education specifically is skewed to the left.
TristanLuigi:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 02, 2017, 02:02:03 AM ---the entire system leans to the left which is very unhealthy for the maturing mind considering they're only hearing one side of the argument
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--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 02, 2017, 02:18:55 AM ---I didn't say America was skewed to the left. American higher education specifically is skewed to the left.
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yeah no
First of all, liberalism is not left-wing (socialism is). Second, higher education naturally trains those who are responsible for progress (engineers, scientists, etc), so of course it'll tend to have a progressive bias. Third, this trend isn't just a US thing - it's a global one. Fourth, most people will have political opinions long before entering college. And finally, only hearing one side of the argument? Which argument? In what context? With whom? Because you interact with a lot of people in college, and you'll still be exposed to right-wing views; and political opinions will rarely make it into the classroom, because unless you're in polsci or econ, you'll be studying objective facts.
You're confusing political bias with... the effects of education.
OT: As much as I might hate Milo, this is completely inexcusable. Protest as much as you want, but as soon as you start smashing windows, we have a problem.