Racism Logic Fail

Oct 28, 2009 17:20


Ok, I have to get this off of my chest. I just got back from my History of Southern Africa section, where we were discussing the documentary Amandla!, which is about the role of black South African freedom songs in the anti-apartheid struggle. We were supposed to come up with critical questions about the documentary to present to the class at ( Read more... )

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pinkfurcoat October 29 2009, 16:04:49 UTC
interesting intellectual conversations you have. freedom songs=Sweet Home Alabama. lmao!

I'm taking 0 liberal arts courses this semester so I don't have to deal these issues.

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sequelssuck November 4 2009, 04:45:42 UTC
ah, I love dumbasses in liberal arts classes, like the Asian boy in my class last year who said definitively, as if it were a well-accepted fact, that the containment of the Japanese in the western US during WWII helped make America more safe...like, I didn't think that was even an issue that needed to be argued one way or the other, I thought it was basically an accepted fact that there is NO evidence that it made us safer. Anyway, yeah, that's definitely dumb, lol, I hate it when you miss that window in a discussion & you can't go back because then it's just awkward.

I'm glad someone else gets this annoyed by things like this, I feel much less nerdy now...or should I feel more nerdy because you go to Yale. lol.

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