Some Perspective Would Be Nice
Jan. 29th, 2010 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenny_wildcatI just got the agenda for my first actual face-to-face class next week. And as part of the class, actually very first thing, we are going to give introductions of ourselves. And part of the introduction, we are to say what our favorite news source is.
Well, it's no secret that I prefer Fox News over anything else. I've even given up watching local news because I want to gouge my eyes out every time I watch it, there is something I end up yelling at the TV about (nationally, Utah is known as the reddest of red states, but some of the wackos in Salt Lake City wish we could be San Francisco or Boston and that's who gets on TV. Personally, I'd wish they'd just move, but I guess the skiing industry needs a kick in the pants - I don't ski). So, if I'm going to be honest, I'd have to say Fox News.
Problem: Library Science is one of those happy-clappy liberal arts degrees and that tends to attract... well... liberals (some more rabid than others, but it's the most rabid freaks who get to talk the loudest). Seriously, I attended Utah State University which is in Logan, which was a center of the LDS Church back in the day (and the LDS Church is usually the first institution to get attacked by Utah liberals - why the heck do you think Utah's so conservative?) But I majored in English - and I felt like I was in the middle of UC-Berkeley (probably not that bad, but I don't have much to compare it to, having never attended Berkeley). I felt like my beliefs, values and opinions were being attacked just from the subject matter of my classes and the assignments I had to do. But I LIKE English - I LIKE literature - I just happen to espouse conservative values.
Did I mention I suck at on-the-spot debate? I'm one of those people who just does what they do and don't get involved in politics beyond keeping myself informed. But when it comes to standing up to opposing viewpoints - I fold like Kurt Warner in New Orleans. But I have a temper (I had to inherit something from my mother, after all) and I get incoherent when I get mad. And I'm competitive and hate to lose (I inherited that from my dad). So, I avoid things that piss me off so I don't make an idiot of myself.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah - so I'm a conservative that's going into a predominately liberal profession. And that's the first thing I'm going to have to admit to in this class - in front of my professor. And I'm a little nervous about it.
But then I check on HillBuzz.org - it's a bunch of gay guys in Chicago who support Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin (yes, you read right - take a minute and catch your breath) who don't like Obama and his policies and they've been among those on the front lines fighting against his craptastic ideas and all the other BS that he's trying to do. And they are funny. Heavens above, they are amazing! (you have to see all the stuff they did during the Massachusetts special election). And now they're are being attacked on a personal level by the far left crazies and they can't even find employment (most of them do freelance work).
And you know what, admitting that I watch Fox News to my MLS class doesn't seem like such a hard thing.
Well, it's no secret that I prefer Fox News over anything else. I've even given up watching local news because I want to gouge my eyes out every time I watch it, there is something I end up yelling at the TV about (nationally, Utah is known as the reddest of red states, but some of the wackos in Salt Lake City wish we could be San Francisco or Boston and that's who gets on TV. Personally, I'd wish they'd just move, but I guess the skiing industry needs a kick in the pants - I don't ski). So, if I'm going to be honest, I'd have to say Fox News.
Problem: Library Science is one of those happy-clappy liberal arts degrees and that tends to attract... well... liberals (some more rabid than others, but it's the most rabid freaks who get to talk the loudest). Seriously, I attended Utah State University which is in Logan, which was a center of the LDS Church back in the day (and the LDS Church is usually the first institution to get attacked by Utah liberals - why the heck do you think Utah's so conservative?) But I majored in English - and I felt like I was in the middle of UC-Berkeley (probably not that bad, but I don't have much to compare it to, having never attended Berkeley). I felt like my beliefs, values and opinions were being attacked just from the subject matter of my classes and the assignments I had to do. But I LIKE English - I LIKE literature - I just happen to espouse conservative values.
Did I mention I suck at on-the-spot debate? I'm one of those people who just does what they do and don't get involved in politics beyond keeping myself informed. But when it comes to standing up to opposing viewpoints - I fold like Kurt Warner in New Orleans. But I have a temper (I had to inherit something from my mother, after all) and I get incoherent when I get mad. And I'm competitive and hate to lose (I inherited that from my dad). So, I avoid things that piss me off so I don't make an idiot of myself.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah - so I'm a conservative that's going into a predominately liberal profession. And that's the first thing I'm going to have to admit to in this class - in front of my professor. And I'm a little nervous about it.
But then I check on HillBuzz.org - it's a bunch of gay guys in Chicago who support Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin (yes, you read right - take a minute and catch your breath) who don't like Obama and his policies and they've been among those on the front lines fighting against his craptastic ideas and all the other BS that he's trying to do. And they are funny. Heavens above, they are amazing! (you have to see all the stuff they did during the Massachusetts special election). And now they're are being attacked on a personal level by the far left crazies and they can't even find employment (most of them do freelance work).
And you know what, admitting that I watch Fox News to my MLS class doesn't seem like such a hard thing.
