President Trump's accurate portrayal of Baltimore as a rat-infested failure of a city was the stimulus. The Elites' response wasn't thoughtful, it was reflexive. "Racism!" When you think about it, that's not much of a surprise.
Our academic institutions no longer teach, they indoctrinate. Working with student activists, they ban conservative speakers like Ben Shapiro instead of engaging with them. That's the symptom of a larger disease. Our universities train intellectual weakness.
Like a gym with no equipment, but a big donut bar, what should be the training ground for our best thinkers is instead a training ground for mentally lazy slobs. I can't think of a singe legitimate response to Trump's accusations and all of his opponents were Elites.
Furthermore, almost no one in the media, also members of our Elite, pushed back on the racialist spasms of the left. The accusations were ludicrous, but because it reinforced by their own lousy mental training, they went with it.
When our universities close their minds, they make us weaker.
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| I'm betting Socrates, a white male of all things, never argued with his eyes bugged out like this. |
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I dunno, there are some pretty creepy sculptures of Socrates out there. I can easily picture him in a wild-eyed rant.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louvre,_Socrates-Sculpture.jpg
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Socrates_(sculpture)
Eh, to pull of a really troll-worthy form of the Socratic method, you've got to be relatively calm.
Hm, I suppose you could do the screeching harpy route to steer people to just go "yeah, sure" to whatever leading question you use-- a variation on the "you love pizza, right? So why don't you marry it!" thing.
Tim, that first sculpture is just So-crates after a bender. Perfectly understandable.
Foxie, I think when someone's eyes are bugging out like that, you'd best just leave. At least that was my experience.
Oh, that's not a scary image of Socrates. It's just that he was an ugly man.
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