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Our Side Won Today
Sep. 2nd, 2009 03:52 pm(I wrote about this in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
therightfangirl earlier - but I wanted to share it here too. They know details that I haven't shared here yet, so this post will be different than the one there.)
For my job, I work for the university's Disability Resource Center. I take notes for a deaf student who has to watch a sign-language interpreter during class. Basically, I go to class, take notes and give the notes to the student after class. It's like taking the class, except I don't have to take tests or turn in homework and I don't get credit (but I'm getting paid for it. Good enough).
One of the classes I take notes for is political science class. During my first round of college, I was lucky enough to not have to take a political science class. Too much liberal drivel to wade through and I already know what they're going to say and I don't agree with it.
But today - oh - it was a happy day!
This professor was going on about how there were no WMDs in Iraq and we had no business in Iraq (the talking points on CBS - you know, the usual). Then two students raised their hands and told him that WMDs were found in Iraq. The professor challenged them to show him the news reports that talked about WMDs because he didn't know of any.
The answer: These students had both served in Iraq and their groups (squadrons? fellow army guys?) personally found caches of biological weapons in Iraq.
OWNED!!
Say what you will about Iraq (honestly, the topic could have been anything) - but it was great for me to see this guy get called out by someone who had been there (a couple of someones, actually). I'm tired of liberal bias in the media and on college campuses (even in Utah - I spent 4 years in English departments at Snow College and USU and I felt like I was at UC-Berkeley - even thought I never attended Berkeley and I don't intend to). And it was a happy moment for me to hear these guys stand up and correct the man in charge. I wish this class wasn't so huge because I wanted to go shake their hands - once for serving our country, twice for having the guts to correct the professor in class.
You go, fellas. Stick it to 'da MAN!
therightfangirl earlier - but I wanted to share it here too. They know details that I haven't shared here yet, so this post will be different than the one there.)For my job, I work for the university's Disability Resource Center. I take notes for a deaf student who has to watch a sign-language interpreter during class. Basically, I go to class, take notes and give the notes to the student after class. It's like taking the class, except I don't have to take tests or turn in homework and I don't get credit (but I'm getting paid for it. Good enough).
One of the classes I take notes for is political science class. During my first round of college, I was lucky enough to not have to take a political science class. Too much liberal drivel to wade through and I already know what they're going to say and I don't agree with it.
But today - oh - it was a happy day!
This professor was going on about how there were no WMDs in Iraq and we had no business in Iraq (the talking points on CBS - you know, the usual). Then two students raised their hands and told him that WMDs were found in Iraq. The professor challenged them to show him the news reports that talked about WMDs because he didn't know of any.
The answer: These students had both served in Iraq and their groups (squadrons? fellow army guys?) personally found caches of biological weapons in Iraq.
OWNED!!
Say what you will about Iraq (honestly, the topic could have been anything) - but it was great for me to see this guy get called out by someone who had been there (a couple of someones, actually). I'm tired of liberal bias in the media and on college campuses (even in Utah - I spent 4 years in English departments at Snow College and USU and I felt like I was at UC-Berkeley - even thought I never attended Berkeley and I don't intend to). And it was a happy moment for me to hear these guys stand up and correct the man in charge. I wish this class wasn't so huge because I wanted to go shake their hands - once for serving our country, twice for having the guts to correct the professor in class.
You go, fellas. Stick it to 'da MAN!
