Older students and the liberal arts

[dcan]

This article from Town Hall (full disclosure: I'm not a liberal) got me thinking. The article lists a few questions and answers from a recent sociology exam, and the questions bear an obvious and significant anti-US bias. Those of you on the left may believe the bias is justified. But I don't think anyone could deny that the bias is there and the questions are not designed to elicit original thought by the student.

I have a real problem with this article. First, I like Walter Williams -- and LOVE Thomas Sowell, his books are incredible! But this entire bit about the sociology test sounds like BS to me. Someone "coincidentally" finds a test that is "coincidentally" scored at 100%, and it "coincidentally" completely supports your ideological viewpoint and shows your opposition to be the evil, dirty, underhanded bastards you always said they were. And "coincidentally" there is no source attribution, out of "fear of retribution" -- which just happens to be the same fear you whip up in your own followers!

Naaah, I'd really like Snopes to research this one.

I think this country is phenomenal in many ways, but I also think there is much deserved criticism. Capitalism is great, but corporate welfare and corporate domination is destructive. We have immense freedom, and a police system that just might beat you within an inch of your life if you dare videotape them. We believe myths about our nation promoting democracy while we support oppressive dictatorships. Not saying that isn't sometimes necessary, but lying about it aids the evil.

Left and Right are false dichotomies in America. What the Right calls "The Left" is really "slightly less Right" when considered against the true Left/Right divide in the rest of the world. America's "Left" still engages in foreign wars for dubious reasons, supports corporations and special interests over We The People, and generally doesn't give a rat's @ss about anything but maintaining power. Just like "the other side" they "oppose" and then go play golf with.