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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2013, 10:09:52 AM »
Apparently, to you, all teachers are morons who spend all their time preaching liberalism to their students.

Talk about missing the point.
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2013, 11:20:01 AM »
Apparently you continue to miss the point, since I never claimed or even implied such a thing about "all" teachers, or even "preaching"     :o    Sad, in that we could have had a decent dialog on this issue, but instead you continually have to demean, insult, and deflect.
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2013, 11:40:07 AM »
You seem incapable of understanding your own silly posts.
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2013, 12:15:48 PM »
Now here's a perfect picture into a hard core liberal's mindset when "refuting" a position contrary to theirs.  It's not what the original poster was stating/claiming, it's what the liberal claims he meant to claim.  Silly indeed, and yet another example of dare I say, intellectual dishonesty
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2013, 08:11:09 PM »
At least the teachers of Occupy Oakland are finally being honest about their political agenda.

They’re openly calling for an all-out abolition of capitalism.

The Occupy Oakland Education Committee – comprised of public school teachers from the Oakland, California school district – has renamed its publication “ClassRoom Struggle” and its platform TEACH, which stands for “Transform Education, Abolish Capitalism and Heal.”

Finally the radical teachers have acknowledged what we’ve been saying all along: they want to end capitalism and replace it with a socialist economy, quite possibly enforced by a totalitarian form of government.

And what, precisely, is their strategy? They tell us that goal number one is to abolish “capitalist schools.”

“What we are calling to abolish is not education but rather capitalism,” the group wrote in a statement. “We see the struggle to abolish capitalist schools as one place where we can begin to chip away at capitalism’s grasp on our society. Capitalist tendencies run deep into the structure and politics of schools.

Operated the proper way, these schools have a great deal of potential for left-wing causes, according to the Oakland group.

“While public schools have served a role in developing white supremacist, capitalist and imperialist ideology and social structure (for example through segregated schools, tracked programs, mandated pledge of allegiance, etc.), they have also been key sites of struggle and served as assets for movements of working class students of color and other youth struggles,” the group wrote.

The last part is the scariest. They clearly want to encourage rebellious behavior among young student and recruit them into their anti-American movement.

The teachers have an absolute right to subscribe to any silly political theory they choose. That’s one of the great things about living in the country they hate. But many teachers in Oakland and throughout the U.S. have been using their classrooms as “assets” for their radical movements. They seek to brainwash youngsters into hating America and mistrusting the economic system that has given our nation a very high standard of living.

This proves what domestic terrorist-turned-professor Bill Ayers recently said: Radical leftist teachers have a great deal of influence in our schools, and they should use it to further the revolutionary cause.

America will continue its slide toward socialism as long as radical activists like Ayers and the Oakland teachers are allowed to use our taxpayer-funded schools as bully pulpits and recruiting zones for their movement.

And all this time, you thought teachers were just supposed to teach.  silly
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2013, 08:27:38 PM »
You
are a fucking idiot.
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2013, 03:51:50 AM »
Great rebuttal from the language professor.......bravo
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2013, 12:17:18 PM »
And yet,

you are STILL
 
a fucking idiot.
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2013, 01:37:35 PM »
And still more stellar linguistic ability at refuting that which is actually being referenced, by our "language" professor.   Bravo     8)
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #24 on: January 13, 2013, 02:02:39 PM »
The idiocy continues. Just as one should not expect anything but salt from a salt shaker, one can only expect idiocy from sirs.
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #25 on: January 13, 2013, 02:15:06 PM »
And the linguistic ball just keeps on rolling.  Bravo "Professor"

Here's a helpful hint Xo, instead of just spewing insults, like some immature kid who can't have any ice cream, actually try to explain how I'm some supposed idiot, with specifics and example.  Anyone can act like a leftist and just rant.  Use those few neurons you have to actually formulate a "why" to your ridiculous rants

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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #26 on: January 13, 2013, 03:40:53 PM »
I think this thread has reached the end of its usefulness.

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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #27 on: January 13, 2013, 04:09:59 PM »
It is always a waste of time to debate anything with sirs.
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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #28 on: January 13, 2013, 06:14:24 PM »
And yet he continually responds with the immature cuts.  Didn't think you could Xo.  Again, Bravo.  And Bt, its "usefulness" ended as soon as a certain someone began responding with the personal insults you appeared to take me to task for, but nary a hint of such when its not me.

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Re: Dishonest Intellectuals
« Reply #29 on: January 13, 2013, 06:41:59 PM »
Life isn't fair. Deal with it.