What are the students like at Emory?

el_duque
Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:32:17 +0000

Liberal and open-minded are not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, when it comes to politics, most issues are so personal or so deeply ingrained in one’s belief system that everyone is closed-minded by the time their in college. I mean I was in this health class where the professor basically spent half the semester talking about why the health reform was a terrible idea, but no one changed their opinion by the end of the class. It just gave the people who were against it a lot of ammunition, while the people who were for it stuck to the human rights argument.

Anyway, I think Emory’s liberal tendencies are overstated. I just think liberals are more outspoken and care more. I consider myself a libertarian, but if there’s a political conversation I usually just sit on the sidelines because someone’s gonna take a conflicting opinion personally and get ****ed off. Meanwhile liberals will rarely pay me the same courtesy as they go on and on about Obama the Great, how ■■■■■■■■ people like me are, and how evil we all are. Of course these are the same people who claim to be the caring and considerate ones.

So are we open-minded at all? I personally try to understand that everyone comes from a different background, has different values, thinks differently, and therefore will have a different ideology. But obviously I think I’m in a very small minority, as I just talked about how quick some people can be to insult others with different opinions. You know I would consider calling conservatives bigoted evil ■■■■■■■ a pretty ignorant statement. I mean what are you gonna just surround yourself with liberals your whole life? Because clearly you wouldn’t hang out with evil bigots. So now you’re just always around like-minded thinkers. How open-minded is that? Where’s the diversity?