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Author Topic:   Oppression in College Classrooms
rockondon
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Message 42 of 44 (554573)
04-09-2010 2:51 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Meldinoor
03-14-2010 3:56 PM


ha ha, I got about ten minutes into the video before my brain started to bleed and I had to turn it off.
I love how about 45 seconds in or so it says that it has "ACTUAL FOOTAGE (spoken all dramatic-like) of a reenactment..." lol.
Not surprisingly, the video was filled with clearly blatant bullsh*t. Or at least, its like no college I've ever heard of. I can only surmise that the purpose of the video is to discourage christian kids from going to college so that they remain ignorant and easier to control. Its so sad to see the Christian majority try to convince each other that they are victims of some supposed prejudice, meanwhile as they are preaching this hate toward those who believe differently they are committing the same crime that they are pretending to be victims of.
I've never encountered Christian-bashing in school. I have ran across Christian teachers though whose religious beliefs influenced the curriculum. One english elective I took had a fat woman teacher who gave us stories to read for homework that were almost all Christian-based. One of the stories was called "Young Goodman Brown" which was about the Salem Witch Trials and when the teacher talked about the Salem Witch Trials she enthusiastically lectured as about how the Puritans were Catholics. I see now that this was a witch hunt of her own, designed to trash Catholics.
But I screwed up her plans. I corrected her by pointing out that they were Protestants. Little did I know that my teacher was Protestant and my marks dropped by about two letter grades on every assignment following that day.
Another class we had a naturopath come in as a guest speaker. He talked about health and how the body is designed to live far longer than a mere 80yrs - "look in the bible, some of them lived over 900 years." Most of us laughed at that until we realized he was being serious. After that it was just...awkward.

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