If You Teach a Man to Fisk...
This ninny progressive teacher in Denver is already being pilloried throughout the blogosphere, and appropriately so, but let me add a few thoughts.
1) This guy is a geography teacher and yet he's ranting at length with the standard BusHitler diatribe thoughout his class? No wonder kids today can't read a map.
2) What is it about Colorado? First, Ward Churchill; now this. With Bennish being put on leave, allow me to paraphrase Prof. Churchill: it's a case of the chickens coming home to roost involving this kind of anti-intellectual nonsense.
3) As an example of the slovenliness of this guy's political thought, how could one actually determine to a certainty which is the most violent nation on earth? Which standard does one use? I guess you could go with gun crime but didn't we find after Michael Moore's disastrous Bowling for Columbine that Canada had a disproportionate amount of gun violence in terms of its size? Sorry, Canucks: Bennish has your number. Couldn't Mr. Bennish, just for giggles, put one of the more egregious human rights violators in the world at the top of the charts, #1 with a bullet, when it comes to violence? As far as I know, Cuba is still imprisoning homosexuals and North Korea is still engaged in a policy of mass starvation for its people. Why is this Bennish so insensitive to violence perpetrated against gays and Asians? I smell a civil rights lawsuit right around the corner.
4) Why do loons of this ilk have to reason in such a circular fashion? You know the drill: Bush is against terrorists but I, as the perceptive left-wing deconstructionist, insist that Bush is the terrorist. Why doesn't this genius just criticize Bush on substantive grounds and save the sobriquet of "terrorist" for those who actually practice terrorism? This type of thing is, after all, an elementary distinction: as a working definition, a terrorist is someone whose means are, and end is, the creation of terror in others through violent or threatening acts. It's terror for its own sake. One may disagree with, say, the invasion of Iraq or call Bush's various reasons for doing so misguided, unfounded or even bogus. But why insist that it was done to generate terror? Did the invasion of Iraq instill terror in anyone? Areas of Iraq are often violent due to the insurgency but doesn't that make the insurgents the terrorists? This stuff is obvious and damn tiresome. Easier to put "BusHitler" on a sign or blog post.
5) Still, the bleatings of a mediocre mind are ultimately amusing; regarding Bush's State of the Union: "If you listen to his body language." And my favorite: "...we're a democracy. Quote-unquote." Way to mock the status quo, Mr. Super-Smart Guy, with your clever quote-unquote tagline. That'll show 'em. I'd like to see the look on the face of the white male power structure when that quote-unquote thing nails them right between the eyes.
6) So how hard is it to get a teaching certificate in Colorado anyway?
1) This guy is a geography teacher and yet he's ranting at length with the standard BusHitler diatribe thoughout his class? No wonder kids today can't read a map.
2) What is it about Colorado? First, Ward Churchill; now this. With Bennish being put on leave, allow me to paraphrase Prof. Churchill: it's a case of the chickens coming home to roost involving this kind of anti-intellectual nonsense.
3) As an example of the slovenliness of this guy's political thought, how could one actually determine to a certainty which is the most violent nation on earth? Which standard does one use? I guess you could go with gun crime but didn't we find after Michael Moore's disastrous Bowling for Columbine that Canada had a disproportionate amount of gun violence in terms of its size? Sorry, Canucks: Bennish has your number. Couldn't Mr. Bennish, just for giggles, put one of the more egregious human rights violators in the world at the top of the charts, #1 with a bullet, when it comes to violence? As far as I know, Cuba is still imprisoning homosexuals and North Korea is still engaged in a policy of mass starvation for its people. Why is this Bennish so insensitive to violence perpetrated against gays and Asians? I smell a civil rights lawsuit right around the corner.
4) Why do loons of this ilk have to reason in such a circular fashion? You know the drill: Bush is against terrorists but I, as the perceptive left-wing deconstructionist, insist that Bush is the terrorist. Why doesn't this genius just criticize Bush on substantive grounds and save the sobriquet of "terrorist" for those who actually practice terrorism? This type of thing is, after all, an elementary distinction: as a working definition, a terrorist is someone whose means are, and end is, the creation of terror in others through violent or threatening acts. It's terror for its own sake. One may disagree with, say, the invasion of Iraq or call Bush's various reasons for doing so misguided, unfounded or even bogus. But why insist that it was done to generate terror? Did the invasion of Iraq instill terror in anyone? Areas of Iraq are often violent due to the insurgency but doesn't that make the insurgents the terrorists? This stuff is obvious and damn tiresome. Easier to put "BusHitler" on a sign or blog post.
5) Still, the bleatings of a mediocre mind are ultimately amusing; regarding Bush's State of the Union: "If you listen to his body language." And my favorite: "...we're a democracy. Quote-unquote." Way to mock the status quo, Mr. Super-Smart Guy, with your clever quote-unquote tagline. That'll show 'em. I'd like to see the look on the face of the white male power structure when that quote-unquote thing nails them right between the eyes.
6) So how hard is it to get a teaching certificate in Colorado anyway?
posted by Oa Rove at 5:05 PM
<< Home