Friday, October 06, 2017

For Lefties, Someone Who Thinks For Him/herself Is Worthy of Anthropological Study

You have to wonder how anyone could genuinely honestly truly be so oblivious to the beam in their own eye while commenting on the mote in someone else's:
Amherst College is offering a course this semester exploring why “some women become right-wing leaders” while others “fight for the rights of women.”

According to the course description, the seminar will explore “the consequences of neoliberalism, cultural conservatism, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiments for women of different social and economic strata as well as women’s divergent political responses.”

The description then elaborates on the nature of the divergence, saying that some women gravitate toward the “right-wing”—about which it provides no additional context—whereas others join “progressive forces,” whose activities it charitably describes as “anti-racist” and focused on defending the rights of others.
The left truly doesn't understand how and why people think for themselves instead of marching in lockstep.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm a lifelong liberal and I think this course is ridiculous. I have conservative female relatives whose ideas I respect. Disagree with, but respect.