What are the students like at Emory?

el_duque
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:43:38 +0000

You’re probably farther left than most Americans. Most consider Obama to be left and most major news channels like CNN and MSNBC are also considered left. Also a lot of the TV shows and movies college students watch are written by leftists. South Park is the one exception I can think of.

I only know one conservative that actually has problems with people who are different, but he actually is closed-minded. I’m from Chicago, which is probably one of the most racist, self-segregated towns in America. I hear Boston is the same way. Both cities are also some of the most liberal towns in the country. Thus we have closed-minded people on both sides by your own description.

The fact that you believe your opinion should be a given is a closed-minded thing to say. That said I don’t think anyone would disagree with you when you state it broadly like that. But when you actually start listing everything that you believe should be a protected right, I think you’ll find there’s a lot of disagreement (even within like ideologies) as to what exactly constitutes a right. I also think liberals largely define change as expanding government, which conservatives are vehemently against, and then call conservatives “stuck in the past” because they resist “change”. What if conservatives called change decentralizing the government? That is change after all, but liberals are against it. Should we call liberals stuck in the past now?