by frog
According to Glenn Beck, universities are re-education camps and more dangerous than terrorist groups. Really.
Published in Society & Culture by frog on Sat, September 4th, 2010
Tags: Glenn Beck, oh dear oh dear, USA
Any Glenn Beck fans in the house?
Published: September 4, 2010
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Sigh…..Beck says some good stuff re rights,freedom and whats going wrong with America…then he ruins it with silly “return to God” crap and conservative rambalings like this.
He has a point in what he says about the ideas being taught and how they sow the seeds for Americas downfall but his solution,God,is no better.
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i thought he cranked out some tuneful ditties…
oh..!..you mean glenn..!…his mutant second-cousin…?
that guy who keeps pretending to be like whaleoil…?
of the two..i think beck cries more…
..(in public anyway…)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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He’s no nut caes…far from it.Hes very well read and has a fantastic grasp of issues and principles.He spoils it with a confused religious position re Americas founding and the values that really underpin it.
Hes quite Libertarian but that gets muddled with the “One nation under God” thing and the inevertible conflict that theocracy must lead to re peoples rights and freedoms.
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Jesus, Beck makes you look sane, James. I can’t see why you’d want to be associated with him at all.
Its akin to throwing the baby out with the bath water.Beck does do some good stuff from a freedom loving point of view.He’s probably the most visual advocate of Americas need to rediscover what it was that really made America great…but its not belief in God as he seems to think.
Hes open to ideas by people he might otherwise disagree with re religion such as atheists like Rand etc….so hes not all bad.
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On the other hand, people who talk to trees are generally considered mad, so people who talk to geographical concepts (“America” in Beck’s case) should be considered to be total whammo deluxe mince pies.
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ahhh I think you have that backwards – he is saying that universities push a socialist / progressive agenda, not the capitalist one you described.
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The hard left calling the hard right nuts..?
A major university study observed that people who described themselves as “very political” were shown political images and played political messages, the emotional side of their brains reacted, the side using logic had very little activity… Anyone on a political blog is nuts (myself included)…
Pots, kettles, black…
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Generally I do not like Glen Beck. I can say though, that he does make some good points. The word “re-education” itself is quite a scary one ad people trying to force you to THEIR viewpoint, be it right or left is something that should be avoided.
On the other hand, though college may generally have a more liberal slant I do not belive for a second that there really is a massive conspiracy to indoctrinate our youth.
By definition college is a chance to experience new things and differing viewpoints therefore an open mind is important.
Business is oftn more conservative because tradition and respect can be more important in the long run. It all works out in the end.
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The hard left calling the hard right nuts..?
A major university study observed that people who described themselves as “very political” were shown political images and played political messages, the emotional side of their brains reacted, the side using logic had very little activity… Anyone on a political blog is nuts (myself included)…
Pots, kettles, black…
Nothing wrong with being passionate about your cause…its the substance of your cause that matters.Im passionate about people being free from tryanny and force and being able to live as human beings should….others seem pasionate about forcing their views on others and are not backward in advocating state violence to make it happen….so yes things will get heated during debates sometimes.
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America, as I understand it, was set up so that the Federal government was established to represent each state, what we seem to have here is the opposite occurring, where the States are at the beck and call of the Federal government. (no pun intended
) The problems that America face will not be solved with a whiteboard and some fundamentalist religious nutbar talking to a camera.
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Terrible, all that emotional stuff – empathy, compassion, love, anger at injustice. How better the world would be if we were all Vulcans.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury I rest my case…
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Here’s Beck being an utter numnut.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/10/it_must_be_obvious_day.php
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