(01-05-2020, 04:45 PM)Last42min Wrote: Thanks for the info. I would have bet money they called it in themselves. When I was in college back in 2005, I took what I thought would be a cakewalk course called Social Justice. I had never heard of such a thing, but it sounded like an easy A. The teacher was an absolute radical, though. Everyone, including self-professed democrats, thought he was too extreme. We were taught tactics for protesting, avoiding arrest, creating dynamic cellular networks, and general disruption. This is straight of his playbook. I didn't take it seriously at the time; no one did. Little did we know that he was the forerunner for the progressive movement.

On a side note, it was the only course in which I received a C. I tried to convince the class to handcuff ourselves to the desks and protest until we all received A's in the class, but no one had the courage to do it. He would have caved SO fast. It would have been a huge ego boost for that guy. Unfortunately, I ended up having to write a paper that was supposed to rail against capitalism, and I guess I wasn't convincing enough.

You should've been able to write a decent paper on the weaknesses of Capitalism. For instance,  the health crisis we're enduring because Capitalism supplies an a continually available abundance of food leading to epidemic levela of obesity and diabetes. Or the mental health crisis experienced by people like Mikesez because the easy existence of the Middle Class creates self imposed feelings of guilt and depression. There's lots of ways if you'd been creative with the assignment. But the handcuffs would've been great to read about in the paper.

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(01-05-2020, 04:45 PM)Last42min Wrote: Thanks for the info. I would have bet money they called it in themselves. When I was in college back in 2005, I took what I thought would be a cakewalk course called Social Justice. I had never heard of such a thing, but it sounded like an easy A. The teacher was an absolute radical, though. Everyone, including self-professed democrats, thought he was too extreme. We were taught tactics for protesting, avoiding arrest, creating dynamic cellular networks, and general disruption. This is straight of his playbook. I didn't take it seriously at the time; no one did. Little did we know that he was the forerunner for the progressive movement.

On a side note, it was the only course in which I received a C. I tried to convince the class to handcuff ourselves to the desks and protest until we all received A's in the class, but no one had the courage to do it. He would have caved SO fast. It would have been a huge ego boost for that guy. Unfortunately, I ended up having to write a paper that was supposed to rail against capitalism, and I guess I wasn't convincing enough.

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