Dr. Rosenpenis
3rd February 2006, 01:30
I live in an affluent neighborhood and attend a very conservative school. All of my history, government, and economics teachers have been vastly right-winged and showed it shamelessly, always leading to pretty long heated discussions. Most of them, however, within the confines of the American political spectrum, were relatively responsible educators and rarely pushed on us outright biased opinions as objective facts. This year, however, my economics teacher has invited a guest speaker who comes in every single friday and talks to us about economics, government, and global issues. The guys is an ass-hole lawyer who has defended free-market capitalism, conservativism, wrongfully condemned communism, socialism, and who has no moral qualms about spewing his biased, bourgeois opinions to a group of impressionable high-schoolers.
Last week he did a little speech on the supposed direct relationship between "economic freedom" and a nation's wealth and standard of living. He also entirely denied the effect of imperialism, economic subordination to a foreign bourgeoisie, income distribution, and the level of economic advancement on a nation's per-capita wealth, productivity, and standard of living.
I went home that day and e-mailed my teacher and asked him to please reconsider what kind of people he allows to speak in his classroom. I signed it as my parents. I told my mom so as to not fuck the whole thing up if he called my house. The next week, he spoke to me and asked me what I wanted him to do. I told him that I didn't want this guy to come in anymore because he lies. He agreed and said he'd call the guy and tell him to not come in anymore. Victory!
I'm sorry for the long story, but I'm rather excited that it was so easy to stop this dumbass in his tracks. I know that he'll probably try to brainwash more kids, but I hope he receives more similar results.
Last week he did a little speech on the supposed direct relationship between "economic freedom" and a nation's wealth and standard of living. He also entirely denied the effect of imperialism, economic subordination to a foreign bourgeoisie, income distribution, and the level of economic advancement on a nation's per-capita wealth, productivity, and standard of living.
I went home that day and e-mailed my teacher and asked him to please reconsider what kind of people he allows to speak in his classroom. I signed it as my parents. I told my mom so as to not fuck the whole thing up if he called my house. The next week, he spoke to me and asked me what I wanted him to do. I told him that I didn't want this guy to come in anymore because he lies. He agreed and said he'd call the guy and tell him to not come in anymore. Victory!
I'm sorry for the long story, but I'm rather excited that it was so easy to stop this dumbass in his tracks. I know that he'll probably try to brainwash more kids, but I hope he receives more similar results.