In his 2016 Time editorial “Politically incorrect? Or master strategist? Try both,” basketball icon and human rights activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar claims that presenting examples of extreme political correctness allows the political incorrect to deny the problem exist at all. Jabbar makes an effective argument using mockery and pathos. Jabbars clever use of mocker throughout the article helps his argument. He writes, “The real problem, they want to tell us, is the cure. As do vaccination deniers and climate change skeptics” (Jabbar Para. 10). This is a subtle jab at the Republican party and is meant to discredit the party. Jabbar uses this mockery throughout the article and if not looked over carefully it may go unnoticed. It is used to…
Hughes concludes by challenging the idea of modern conservatism is mutually exclusive with decent treatment of all people, and calls on conservatives to reflect on what their values truly…
In the 2016 presidential debate, some of our candidates are showing political correctness in a positive or negative way. During debates and press conferences, they show their true personalities with their thoughts and reactions. Sometimes, candidates bring up meaningful data when trying to gain supporters. Unfortunately, some of those same candidates might convey something that is not politically correct. With their debates, the Republican or Democratic Party can show how they would handle something as president and convince citizens they are the right person to lead our nation. The things they assert highly affect of what our people think of them of trying to become president.…
Do you have a pet peeve? If so, what is it? Is it that of people talking on their cell phone while in the checkout line in a grocery store? Or, drivers not using their blinkers while changing lanes? Well, one of my biggest pet peeves is double standards or hypocrites. It really bothers me when people say one thing and with their actions do the exact opposite. In the book King Leopold’s Ghost, there are three characters that display the most hypocrisy, King Leopold, Henry Morton Stanley and Colonel George Washington Williams.…
A prevalent question that comes up while studying America’s past is “was the American Revolution a true revolution?”. Depending on the whether the historian sides with the theory of a strict or loose constructionist, the answer will vary. Strict constructionists tend to believe that a revolution produces a significant end result whereas loose constructionists refer to any type of violence in conjunction with a constitution, rulers, or policies. This differentiation leads to the topics of conservatism and radicalism. In correlation with the American revolution, conservatists claim that the outcome of the revolution was nothing great. On the other hand, radicalists feel that the changes after the revolution were extraordinary. Pulitzer Prize-winning Carl N. Delger agrees with the conservatists…
Racial profiling also contradicts the conservative belief that if society stopped putting such emphasis on color and race, that it would eventually dissipate. This belief makes many African American students cautious of the conservatives. Forman states…
Liberals and African-Americans are more sensitive to the burden of the unfulfilled promise of Emancipation and Reconstruction, while so-called “realists” and conservatives proclaim that too much help has already been given (think: “Affirmative Action”).…
In the book “Contradictions in Conservatism” Dr.Farmer explains the discrepancies and inconsistencies in conservatism in order to enlighten his audience about the contrariety in the ideology, Conservatism. Dr. Farmer brings forth to light the values and beliefs that they hold. He lists all of them and then he explains why they are wrong or contradicting. He does a great job in portraying their flawed logic. Along with all the ideologies he gives us basic information about Political Socialization and how our political attitudes towards other groups differ among everyone. It differs because different people in different locations contain different Socialization agents. Although, the majority of people In the United States tend to gain their attitudes…
Charles X was recently appointed as King of France by the Allied powers after the Fall of Napoleon . France has been actively pursuing their liberalist acts creating conflicts between them and conservative parties in their country. The French society is now questioning the decision…
In Christopher Newfield- assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara- wrote an article called “What Was Political Correctness? Race, the Right, and Managerial Democracy in the Humanities”. The article was written about the challenges of politics and racial difference in humanities research. As Newfield begins his article he says, “If everyone gets the enemies they deserve, it doesn't seem fair that pluralistic liberal humanists last year found themselves denounced as the threat to…
original intent.'72 The argument is that the drafters of the Amendment had no intent to grant…
PS M122B / ENV M161 2013 Paper #1 Frayman, Daniel Issue: Affirmative Action After reviewing two distinct sources, Wikipedia and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), on the issue of affirmative action, it is evident of the disparities regarding the content in each. These differences arise from the fact that Wikipedia is a “bottom up” foundation where its articles are created and edited by random public volunteers while SEP is considered a “top down” encyclopedia that has its information written and released by experts or scholars only. When comparing coverage and treatment of a highly debated topic in affirmative action between an open- and expert-curated source, readers would notice the overall variation in the particular content displayed…
Both sides only prove the importance of actually reading the material that is not nearly as black and white as either side wants to make it.…
What is learned as a child stays with you for the rest of your life. We have given teaches the awesome responsibility of molding our young. They take a head full of mush and fill it with facts (Limbaugh). Do we want them to impart their political agendas on our vulnerable children? I think not!!! Studies have shown that most teachers have very definite liberal leanings. They often show that bias in the classroom. If there is one thing that my mother has told me is that direct omission is a lie, and if you are going to present your liberal views then you must also present the conservative rebuttal. However, this is not what is happening is today 's schools. In fact, teachers often give lower grades for writings that do not agree with their points of view. This incursion of liberal views occurs from kindergarten, to the elementary school, to the middle school, to the high school, and even to the college campuses. Most students spend in excess of 6 hours per day in school, 180 days a year. That is greater than 6,5 00 hours of their lives, just in elementary school. Add high school and that amount doubles. That is a lot of time and a lot of power given over to teachers. Some of them abuse it. Let me show you what I mean, by giving just a few examples.…
This started when I was old enough to notice politics, my parents would always be very negative when they explained to me the Republican Party so I carried that with me growing up. Coupled with that is then the homophobic, islamophobic, xenophobic hate speech that I’ve heard from so many republican candidates (i.e. Trump, Palin, Rubio etc.) although during my time in college I have come to learn that politics is a lot more grey than how my parents initially explained it to me. Additionally I try to pay more attention to politics on both side of the aisle and constantly remind myself that it’s a spectrum and the political beliefs of a person most times does not correlate with whether or not they are a good person. I think I struggle with this bias the most out of all of my biases because of how vocal the radicals in the party are and how in my eyes at least it seems that they have no regard for any other human being, what I forget though it that there are radicals on both side of the aisle and that I shouldn’t be quick to judge or assume that the loudest voices speaks for the entire…