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    saw this last night. WOULD LOVE To have this guy in one of my classes.

    Why is he spewing his own political views in an English class?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
    saw this last night. WOULD LOVE To have this guy in one of my classes.

    Why is he spewing his own political views in an English class?
    I would have ripped that guy a new ass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinfix_15 View Post
    I would have ripped that guy a new ass.
    Sounds exactly like you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    Sounds exactly like you.
    He's wasting an entire class' time. He needed someone to tell him to STFU. He also issued a threat to anyone who disagreed with him. Not speaking up empowers this idiot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
    saw this last night. WOULD LOVE To have this guy in one of my classes.

    Why is he spewing his own political views in an English class?
    Because without more context, we can't tell if he's a student, a teacher, a guest speaker, whether he's instructing, or casually speaking.

    I say the same thing when people say evolution is a hoax, or that we're in debt beyond our eyeballs, within a classroom setting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinfix_15 View Post
    He's wasting an entire class' time. He needed someone to tell him to STFU. He also issued a threat to anyone who disagreed with him. Not speaking up empowers this idiot.
    Issued a threat?

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    Issued a threat?
    Did you watch the video?

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    Because without more context, we can't tell if he's a student, a teacher, a guest speaker, whether he's instructing, or casually speaking.

    I say the same thing when people say evolution is a hoax, or that we're in debt beyond our eyeballs, within a classroom setting.
    hes a professor at University of MIchigan, William Penn is his name (ironic).

    hes an English teacher, he has no business arguing politics at a University. This wasnt a Poli Sci class.

    Also, if a REPUBLICAN did this, Id be equally as outraged.

    The job of an educator isnt to indoctrinate people on political views, their job is to present a subject matter and teach facts, if its not a fact, then you present material and let your students make their own informed opinions. Calling a political party a bunch of old white people who raped the country (when you fit that demographic yourself) is just outright false and a lie. Its not a discussion, its mudslinging.

    You cant possibly believe that statement was totally ethical for an educator to say
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
    hes a professor at University of MIchigan, William Penn is his name (ironic).

    hes an English teacher, he has no business arguing politics at a University. This wasnt a Poli Sci class.

    Also, if a REPUBLICAN did this, Id be equally as outraged.

    The job of an educator isnt to indoctrinate people on political views, their job is to present a subject matter and teach facts, if its not a fact, then you present material and let your students make their own informed opinions.
    We're talking about democrats here...... there is no moral code of ethics with them. Indoctrination and disinformation are two of the biggest tools in their tool box. They would be standing bedside at birth to push liberal policies if they could. Hell, maybe they already are..... that might be why theyre such big abortion supporters, it reduces some of the ground they have to cover.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
    indoctrinate...
    This word seems to be thrown around pretty liberally, in places where its not really the appropriate word to use

    its mudslinging.
    Thats better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    This word seems to be thrown around pretty liberally, in places where its not really the appropriate word to use

    Thats better.
    I know what it means:
    in·doc·tri·nate
    inˈdäktrəˌnāt/
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    verb: indoctrinate; 3rd person present: indoctrinates; past tense: indoctrinated; past participle: indoctrinated; gerund or present participle: indoctrinating

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    teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

    When its me and you, its mudslinging. When you are an EDUCATOR tasked with teaching young people , its indoctrinating.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
    I know what it means:
    in·doc·tri·nate
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    verb: indoctrinate; 3rd person present: indoctrinates; past tense: indoctrinated; past participle: indoctrinated; gerund or present participle: indoctrinating

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    teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

    When its me and you, its mudslinging. When you are an EDUCATOR tasked with teaching young people , its indoctrinating.
    Just because he's a teacher doesn't mean he's indoctrinating anyone. Indoctrination is pretty specific, and, at lest according to the video, it doesn't fit the definition. When we use words hyperbolically, they tend to lose their definition.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    Just because he's a teacher doesn't mean he's indoctrinating anyone. Indoctrination is pretty specific, and, at lest according to the video, it doesn't fit the definition. When we use words hyperbolically, they tend to lose their definition.
    This video is an example of indoctrination. You are wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinfix_15 View Post
    This video is an example of indoctrination. You are wrong.
    Sorry. It's not. It seems like it, since it appears to be in an instructional setting. But comments that we may or may disagree with does not automatically equal indoctrination.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post

    The job of an educator isnt to indoctrinate people on political views, their job is to present a subject matter and teach facts, if its not a fact, then you present material and let your students make their own informed opinions. Calling a political party a bunch of old white people who raped the country (when you fit that demographic yourself) is just outright false and a lie. Its not a discussion, its mudslinging.
    This.

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    I don't have an issue with what he said, and I understand his point, just that he was trying to use the words 'mudslinging" and 'indoctrination' interchangeably. It may help us with our discussion to know the difference between the precise definitions of words and colloquialisms, which I feel some of us have learned the former in place of the latter

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    When we use words hyperbolically, they tend to lose their definition.
    Like 'racism' has?



    BTW, the fact that he is a teacher, in a classroom setting, lends more credence to the indoctrination argument than simple mudslinging. You always claim to be so bog on context, maybe its time to use it yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy View Post
    Like 'racism' has?



    BTW, the fact that he is a teacher, in a classroom setting, lends more credence to the indoctrination argument than simple mudslinging. You always claim to be so bog on context, maybe its time to use it yourself.
    Yes. Like racism. Another word used hyperbolically in this forum quite often.

    I am big on context, and based on the context provided, it does not fit the definition of indoctrination. Even if we swapped "Romney" with "Obama" and "republicans" with "democrats", it would still just be mudslinging. Indoctrination is pretty specific, and that simply didnt happen here. Unless he's said something else that's not on the video.

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    This is a class........ taking place at the university of maryland................


    seriously.......



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