'No, it's not your opinion. You're just wrong'

[MisterCreosote]

Love this, and it's an excellent summation of what's happening in our country nowadays:

Yes, Your Opinion Can Be Wrong | Houston Press

I call this the Ricky Bobby Syndrome:

I have had so many conversations or email exchanges with students in the last few years wherein I anger them by indicating that simply saying, "This is my opinion" does not preclude a connected statement from being dead wrong. It still baffles me that some feel those four words somehow give them carte blanche to spout bat**** oratory or prose. And it really scares me that some of those students think education that challenges their ideas is equivalent to an attack on their beliefs.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Are you talking to me?!?!

 

[Ace]

Sounds like your typical liberal indoctrinating professor.

 

[MisterCreosote]

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I was just having this conversation two weeks ago with someone. Somewhere along the line, we stopped telling stupid people they are stupid.

 

[Neutral Corner]

It goes along with having choose your own facts and science news channels.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I was just having this conversation two weeks ago with someone. Somewhere along the line, we stopped telling stupid people they are stupid.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Could you imagine if Dan Quayle came along now? He was a four-year punching bag for Johnny Carson before talk radio was huge, before there were 38 news networks and back when CNN *gasp* covered news. This guy said things equally as stupid as Palin. ****ing spelled potato wrong for crissakes. Quayle was labeled an idiot and never heard from again, yet Palin was able to carve out a niche fanbase of wackos who defend her throughout.

 

[Songbird]

They let YF make that sign. You can smell the loathing of potheads in that sign.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Quayle wasn't an old Republican's milf fantasy.

 

[TyWebb]

I was just having this conversation two weeks ago with someone. Somewhere along the line, we stopped telling stupid people they are stupid.

What if they identify as a smart person?

 

[Riptide]

They let YF make that sign.

Can't be YF. "You're" is spelled correctly.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Could you imagine if Dan Quayle came along now? He was a four-year punching bag for Johnny Carson before talk radio was huge, before there were 38 news networks and back when CNN *gasp* covered news. This guy said things equally as stupid as Palin. ****ing spelled potato wrong for crissakes. Quayle was labeled an idiot and never heard from again, yet Palin was able to carve out a niche fanbase of wackos who defend her throughout.

Biden is a world-class doofus and he's basically gotten a pass. All depends on who is directing the "news" coverage.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Sounds like your typical liberal indoctrinating professor.

Sounds like a liberal professor who needs to work on his indoctrinating skills.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Love this, and it's an excellent summation of what's happening in our country nowadays:

Yes, Your Opinion Can Be Wrong | Houston Press

I call this the Ricky Bobby Syndrome:

I have had so many conversations or email exchanges with students in the last few years wherein I anger them by indicating that simply saying, "This is my opinion" does not preclude a connected statement from being dead wrong. It still baffles me that some feel those four words somehow give them carte blanche to spout bat**** oratory or prose. And it really scares me that some of those students think education that challenges their ideas is equivalent to an attack on their beliefs.

How long did it take you to become smarter than everyone?

 

[MisterCreosote]

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Confucius say man who stand on toilet get high on pot.

 

[Ace]

Sounds like a liberal professor who needs to work on his indoctrinating skills.

Good point. Some are so wacky, they can't even get the liberal kids to buy what they are selling. Unless it's weed.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Could you imagine if Dan Quayle came along now? He was a four-year punching bag for Johnny Carson before talk radio was huge, before there were 38 news networks and back when CNN *gasp* covered news. This guy said things equally as stupid as Palin. ****ing spelled potato wrong for crissakes. Quayle was labeled an idiot and never heard from again, yet Palin was able to carve out a niche fanbase of wackos who defend her throughout.

You're not exactly wrong. He served his share of word salad, like her. But Dan Quayle is a Rhodes Scholar compared to the Mayor of Wasilla. It's not remotely a fair fight. He's went to DePauw University, which is very respected, and then Indiana University Law School, also very respected. (Top 20 in the nation, I believe.) He practiced law and then became a United States Senator in a record-setting landslide vote before he was 30 or at least very close to it. He's smart. He's just a poor speaker.

Palin would be in the lower half of any of our high school graduating classes, and carved out that fan base because of her schtick of viciously firing on people, like a grown-up mean girl.

 

[User 11148]

Palin ... carved out that fan base because of her schtick of viciously firing on people, like a grown-up mean girl.

If you (and your family) had been treated the way she (and hers) was, I think even you might have lowered yourself a plane or ten.