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suffragette

(12,232 posts)
8. Well you were clearly correct
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 11:15 AM
Dec 2011

and it is good to see a stand being made on that issue through this case.

There have been so many years of pushes to redefine concepts/terms, 1984 naming and spin.
It's left some people confused, some stirring confusion and many sceptical/cynical.

You made me remember just now my PoliSci 101 instructor. Instead of just using a standard textbook, he chose an assortment of texts, all from specific points of view and we thoroughly examined and discussed what the points of view were and what the author's goals, so context as well as contents. We had one standard text (used as a reference piece mostly, but not accepted unquestioningly - which was his point), Machiavelli's "The Prince," "Nine Nations of North America" and a book whose title I don't recall that was written from a favorable stance on Reagan, who was President at the time. The latter book was one many in the class (not me - but I was in the minority there) would have read uncritically otherwise, but given his construction of the class, the students had to critically examine it, which also meant examining his policies in light of "The Prince" rather than the spin. Great class.


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DOJ, anti-trust, AT&T and T-mobile [View all] suffragette Dec 2011 OP
This is a nice change. Laelth Dec 2011 #1
Good points suffragette Dec 2011 #2
Nice to see you too. Laelth Dec 2011 #3
kick for the evening suffragette Dec 2011 #4
So nice to see AT&T lose REP Dec 2011 #5
There is that, too :) suffragette Dec 2011 #6
This is good. I wrote in The News & Observer newspaper about the planned mmonk Dec 2011 #7
Well you were clearly correct suffragette Dec 2011 #8
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