Brain washing of kids in school

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  1. Josephwalker

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    I've posted links showing colleges do just that. I would however agree that even without hiring discrimination there would likely be more liberals in teaching positions than conservatives due to factors you cite and others.
    Liberals gravitate towards positions which allow them to proselytize their philosophy such as education and journalism while conservatives tend to gravitate towards jobs that allow them to implement their political philosophy such as business and innovation.
     
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    I've read those links and commented on them. I mentioned problems with them.

    And so many were business majors in college. ;)
     
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    And so many of them then went into business instead of opting to teach business.
     
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    I never went to business school yet ran my own business for thirty five years, one doesn't need a degree to run a business.
     
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    Very true. That's why I said "many". ;)
     
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    Which is not true since it takes a special kind of person that wants to be a teacher and I have met many teachers who like what they do, I myself would never do it. I was a triple major in college and it involved being a liberal arts student.
     
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    To run a business one just needs to be hard headed and unwilling to submit to the corporate mentality and drug tests.
     
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    I don't disagree with what you say, but the problem is not going to be solved by even more spending for free stuff, more illegals draining the economy, Carbon taxes, and unrealistic ideas about having the rich pay for everything.
     
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    When I went into teaching it was because of a love of language and literature. The idea of proselytizing politics did not play a role in my choices. So many people like to think of college students as impressionable and mindless, but by the time most kids are 18, their "political" tendencies have already taken root.
     
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    Mine was before I went to college and the instructors had no interest in discussing anything but the curriculum. I have friends that are professors at public universities that do not discuss anything but the curriculum.
     
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    Then I suggest the wealthy and the ag business sector stop hiring them and allowing them a place in society.Yet that is not going to happen..
     
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    How so? Are you saying that parents shouldn't have a right to educate their children as them seem fit?
     
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    You’re being ridiculous, of course they do. You know, you can give your kids a standard education, and also teach them on your own. If you’re so scared that a child won’t believe you, you might have to consider that your ideas aren’t very convincing.

    At the end of the day, it is the parents choice, but I would urge parents to give children the freedom to develop their own thoughts.
     
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    I’m not a Democrat. I’m a Green. . Liberals aren’t all alike. In fact the left runs from highly educated, highly successful individuals, to those struggling to get by and everyone in between. The left includes Blacks, Hispanics, East Asians, Whites, Homosexuals.... Some of the most beautiful people in the world are highly liberal leaning as are some of the ugliest.

    Just look at the group pictures of congressmen. The Republicans all look rather similar, all wearing the same suit. Yet the Democrats are a varied lot, many more women, many different skin tones, many different belief systems.


    Most left leaning people see through the less than honorable arguments that come from conservatives.
     
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    The 12 year mark is the point of no return. If the production of greenhouse gases continue to increase at current levels, in 12 years, reducing CO2 will not reverse the effects as too many ecosystems will have been forever altered, damaged or destroyed.
     
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    I guess the male Democrats all looked rather similar, all dressed like male Republicans for the evening, all wearing the same suit.

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    For the most part modern day brainwashing is based on a nexus of brainwashing and marketing science rather than the classic techniques of sleep deprivation, isolation, and so forth. However, based on your posts you have clearly been subjected to one classic brainwashing technique which is called a thought terminating cliche.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
     
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    Did you go to college in the fifties? Biology has moved on beyond Darwin.

    There used to be this theory that as people migrated northward they became more white. That is why one sees a graduation of skin tones as one moves from the Mediterranean, where people tend to be a bit brown and harry, to the Baltic Sea, where people tend to be very White, and not all that harry. All manner of explanations have been made, things like vitamin D needs and whatnot.

    DNA and other scientific advances has discovered something quite different. At the time, except for sub Saharan Africa, all people where brown colored with black hair and brown eyes, even though there was an occasion person with green or blue eyes, but very rarely.

    Then suddenly somewhere towards the end of the last ice age, somewhere around the frozen Baltic Sea, White men began to appear. Men who had pale white skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair. These new men stood, on average, more than 4” taller than other men. DNA studies suggest it began with a single mutation within a single man. In a time without moral restraint, it didn’t take long for a whole lot of women to see the benefit of having children sired by the tall man with the golden blonde hair.

    Even today, the Whitest people in the world live along the shores of the Baltic Sea. The Swedish people didn’t evolve to be White, they began as White.

    DNA studies have likewise revealed that the racial makeup of Europe is a result of a wave of Asians coming from the Middle East, a wave of Asians coming from the middle of Asia, and a wave of Whites coming down from the north. That is how we got the graduation in skin tones. Three distinct groups, blending along the edges over time.
     
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    On the contrary I think I'm being realistic. Educating your children at home has it's benefits to say the least.
     
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    The theory of punctuated equilibrium didn’t mature until the 1970’s. But dogmatic gradualism was still being taught in the 1990’s when I was in college. Evolutionary theory has moved where it needs to remain viable. Most people who swear by evolutionary theory have no idea of the inconsistencies and disagreements among “scientists”. Nor are they aware of the teaching aids used to support the theories that are found to be untrue, but remain in textbooks sometimes years after the new “facts” emerge.

    Can you fill us in on how your blue eyes and superior height are relevant to this discussion?
     
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    only way I can see it playing a part is if ones history shows they can't teach physics without pushing their political or religious views, in which case they should not be hired
     
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    Exactly. I think the political activism is pretty much outside the actual courses that are taught. I never had a prof push an agenda in class, even though I knew a couple who were active politically. However, I did know a history teacher who taught in the room next to mine, and she did push an agenda. That got her fired, so she started teaching at a private school.
     
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    Is this the normal, or was there some event taking place when the photo was taken?
     
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    So, what is wrong with two people of the same sex get married? If you don’t like it, don’t marry someone of the same sex.

    I was once working for a defense contractor where the majority of the workers tended to be rather conservative leaning. I was sitting in a meeting with 20 men, around a large table, all wearing ties and suit coats. I had read an article in the paper that morning that claimed that 5% of the population was homosexual. So, as we were waiting for the meeting to start, I told the other men about the newspaper article. Then I looked around around the room and told them, “Statistically, one of you is gay”. It was fun watching everyone looking at each other as I said that.
     
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    Of course Oppenheimer and those who worked under him were liberals. It is not like there are a lot of conservative physicists. During the war, the threat of Germany developing a bomb was so great that a group of scientists, including Einstein, convinced FDR that the US had to get one first. After the war those same scientists lobbied to stop proliferation, and to restrict nuclear power to peaceful purposes only.

    For that, Oppenheimer, and others were stripped of their security clearances and shut out. I think the Joe McCarthy crowd even tried to blacklist him.

    I never said there was discrimination, just that it wasn’t the type of work that many conservatives get into. You could say that oil fields discriminate against liberals, they employ so few. Or is it just that so few liberals want to work in oil fields.
     

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