part of the reason America is in decline.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... aninstitu/

"This inability of many young Americans to express a simple or even grammatically coherent thought, in Bawer’s view, owes to a variety of academic fads that in the early 1980s captured the American university. One was postmodernism, of course, which traced its roots to the great anthropologists, but from which, alas, was derived a form of crude cultural relativism that achieved the ignominious trifecta of insipidity, incoherence, and blithe ignorance of a philosophical literature treating the idea of relativism from the Sophists to, at the very least, G. E. Moore. From this followed the conclusion that values, such as individual liberty, were not universal, and as the Canadian poet David Solway put it, that we must perforce believe that “[t]here are no barbarians, only different forms of civilized men.”

Then arrived the minor idea of hegemony, conceived by the minor Marxist intellect Antonio Gramsci, who argued that modern liberal democracies are no freer than the most ruthless of totalitarianisms. The oppression was merely unseen. That this idea is absurd—engineers don’t waste energy worrying about plane crashes so subtle that passengers neither notice them nor complain of them—was no obstacle to its advancement. Bawer notes as well the Leninist Paulo Freire, who gave us the common jargon of the contemporary humanities—dialogue, communication, solidarity—and the idea that the point of education is to recognize one’s own oppression so as better to resist it. The Marxist post-colonialist Frantz Fanon completes the intellectual trio.

The chief objective of an education in the humanities today, Bawer argues—with abundant anecdotal evidence to support the claim—is to appreciate that life is all about hegemonic power and to use “theory” to uncover its workings. Depending upon their sex, skin color, or sexual orientation, students are asked to accept as axiomatic that they are either the unconscious instrument of such power or the repository of its collective grievance and victimhood.".........

That is hilarious!!!!!

Not the content, but that you posted it here thinking that people who post here can wrap their head around this. 285bound operates and communicates at a 3rd grade level, one year below the media. The quote is talking about people around here! Though I don't fully agree with the post.

Please 285bound community respond to this, I could use a great laugh.

Answer is easy, 40 years of leftist & Rino rule!

on that note wrote: That is hilarious!!!!!

Not the content, but that you posted it here thinking that people who post here can wrap their head around this. 285bound operates and communicates at a 3rd grade level, one year below the media. The quote is talking about people around here! Though I don't fully agree with the post.

Please 285bound community respond to this, I could use a great laugh.

Well... how does the University Of Delaware see whites as "unconscious instrument" of power...

“A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination. (This does not deny the existence of such prejudices, hostilities, acts of rage or discrimination.)" - Page 3

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“REVERSE RACISM: A term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege. Those in denial use the term reverse racism to refer to hostile behavior by people of color toward whites, and to affirmative action policies, which allegedly give 'preferential treatment' to people of color over whites. In the U.S., there is no such thing as 'reverse racism.'" - Page 3

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“A NON-RACIST: A non-term. The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called "blaming the victim"). Responsibility for perpetuating and legitimizing a racist system rests both on those who actively maintain it, and on those who refuse to challenge it. Silence is consent." - Page 3

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"Have you ever heard a well-meaning white person say, 'I'm not a member of any race except the human race?' What she usually means by this statement is that she doesn't want to perpetuate racial categories by acknowledging that she is white. This is an evasion of responsibility for her participation in a system based on supremacy for white people." - Page 8

http://thefire.org/public/pdfs/3d020892 ... ab5f0f.pdf

Hmmmmm...

on that note wrote: That is hilarious!!!!!

Not the content, but that you posted it here thinking that people who post here can wrap their head around this. 285bound operates and communicates at a 3rd grade level, one year below the media. The quote is talking about people around here! Though I don't fully agree with the post.

Please 285bound community respond to this, I could use a great laugh.

Gee, I dunno, I guess I'm just a dumb bunny cuz I post on 285bound (in an informal tone, since I prefer to leave the 'highly educated' tone of formal writing at work). I spoz, I'm not edjucated enuff to give this the response On That Note wants, so I'll just say that the liberal indoctrination I received while attending my general education classes at a local university completely failed to affect my way of thinking and only served to bolster my resolve to remain conservative in my opinions. The fact remains that right is right, wrong is wrong, and the dilution of those facts only serves to make a society weaker, and thus the country easier prey to our enemies.

I had to look up "hegemony." Just sayin'

(I LOVE the avatar-pic!!!) rofllol

Nobody that matters wrote:

on that note wrote: That is hilarious!!!!!

Not the content, but that you posted it here thinking that people who post here can wrap their head around this. 285bound operates and communicates at a 3rd grade level, one year below the media. The quote is talking about people around here! Though I don't fully agree with the post.

Please 285bound community respond to this, I could use a great laugh.

Gee, I dunno, I guess I'm just a dumb bunny cuz I post on 285bound (in an informal tone, since I prefer to leave the 'highly educated' tone of formal writing at work). I spoz, I'm not edjucated enuff to give this the response On That Note wants, so I'll just say that the liberal indoctrination I received while attending my general education classes at a local university completely failed to affect my way of thinking and only served to bolster my resolve to remain conservative in my opinions. The fact remains that right is right, wrong is wrong, and the dilution of those facts only serves to make a society weaker, and thus the country easier prey to our enemies.

Oh, pulllllleeeeze.... Spare me your "country in decline", "right is right" bellyaching.... You want some cheese with that whine?

The fact is, 52.5% of the American people thought you guys were "wrong"... And the days of you using the "wedge issues" of immigration, marriage equality, and dog-whistle racism to win elections is over...

I understand Rove is already trotting out the tired meme that "Hispanics must be natural for the GOTP, 'cause they're Catholics and all...." (The ol' "family values" crap that didn't work the last time.) You are REALLY going to "need some new material" now, because you're running out of angry white guys, and you aren't going to win elections on that any more. RMoney saw to that...

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Speaking of which, I just found this:

Rove’s plan won’t work: Don’t count on Latino social conservatism

Drop the anti-immigrant rhetoric! Focus on the “family values” that Latinos supposedly share with the party! But that magic solution to Republicans’ demographic problem that some conservatives are touting — which conveniently allows the party to resist moderating on so-called social issues like gay marriage and abortion — is unlikely to pan out.

Two days after Latino voters broadly rejected the Republican Party, Charles Krauthammer saw reason for optimism. Latinos, he said, “should be a natural Republican constituency: striving immigrant community, religious, Catholic, family-oriented and socially conservative (on abortion, for example.)” George W. Bush and Karl Rove found a way to approach 40 percent of the Latino vote; Romney barely netted half that. So Republicans, facing a demographic time bomb as their base of white men ages, have comforted themselves by thinking all they really need to do is perform as well as Bush did among Latinos to get near the White House again.

Polling on abortion rights is notoriously hard to characterize and can fluctuate depending on how the question is asked — from framing it in terms of legality to asking about the fuzzy labels “pro-life” and “pro-choice.” Some polls have shown less support for abortion rights from Latinos, especially foreign-born Latinos, than from the general population. In a Pew survey last year, 58 percent of immigrant Latinos said abortion should be mainly illegal, compared with 40 percent of second-generation Latinos. In another poll conducted by Univision around the same time, only 38 percent of Latinos said they believed abortion should be legal in most cases, compared with 49 percent of the general population.

Jessica González-Rojas, the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, told Salon that when it comes to asking the Latino community questions about abortion and gay marriage, the framing makes a big difference. When her organization conducted its own polling, it didn’t ask about legality: It asked about “voters’ feelings related to judgment and support around abortion.” In that poll, 74 percent of Latino registered voters agreed that “a woman has a right to make her own personal, private decisions about abortion without politicians interfering. She also pointed out that Latinos overwhelmingly supported the Affordable Care Act, including its birth control coverage provisions. She also credited growing support for gay marriage among Latinos to advocacy and outreach that focused on support for families under the slogan “familia es familia” (family is family). It turns out “family values” doesn’t have to mean economically enforced patriarchy

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http://www.salon.com/2012/11/23/roves_p ... servatism/

So much for the stereotyping and stupid GOTP-tricks of trotting out "family values" with a token Hispanic on the campaign trail and assuming, "Yeah, that'll win them over..."