Earlier this week, while listening to Jack and Andrew on the lesser talk station, I caught them running through this piece about 38 examples of liberal privelege on college campuses.
The piece is very much worth a read.
Of course, if you live in a place like the Twin Cities, you realize there’d be room for a similar piece for adults in places where Jon Stewart is considered news and where chanting “settled science!” is considered an argument-ender.
I’m going to take quick shot at it, off the top of my head: if you’re an adult in a “progressive” city…:
- You’ve never had to learn to confront dissent as anything other than either a mortal threat to your worldview, or a joke to be scuttled away from, using ad homina if necessary.
- You’ve never had to learn to debate at a level beyond strawmen, red herrings, and chuckling “facts have a liberal bias” as if the saying were handed down by the ancients, rather than by a mediocre comic who made a living satirizing conservatives.
- After 12 years of indoctrination in the public schools, and often as not 4-8 years at an institution where dissent is treated as a pathology, you are utterly secure in your faith that your club is the sole source of truth.
35 more to go!
Along these lines, it’s scary how isolated many can become–my brother, a Hahvid grad, once refused to even consider a possibility and examine whether his conclusions would change. That kind of thing used to be grounds for refusing a man entrance to any college, but now you can graduate with a built-in resistance to examining your own assumptions. Yikes.