Brodigan - August 24, 2020 at 09:11AM
Summer's end is around the bend (RIP John Prine), and everyone is getting ready to go back to school. Or kinda sorta getting ready to go back to school. Just because, you know (see IOWA TEACHERS SET A NEW STANDARD OF COVID STUPIDITY. IT INVOLVES OBITUARIES ... and TEACHERS' UNIONS TEAM UP WITH DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS AND ISSUE THESE INSANE DEMANDS). Besides the 'rona concern and the fact that they might actually have to go back to do their actual jobs, some teachers have another concern. It's the "alt-right" videos their students have been watching during their time away, if this article is any indication.
Feel free to read the whole article, but it's nothing we haven't heard before. There are people on YouTube who express opinions slightly to the right of Karl Marx and Kamala Harris. YouTube's recommend list takes control. Then before you know it, Lil' Timmy is a nazi or something. The words "alt-right" are used a lot. Ben Shapiro's and Jordan Peterson's names are thrown around. But this one quote about Joe Rogan made me particularly eyerolly.
"A few started listening to Joe Rogan's podcast, which led to them reading Jordan Peterson's books," she says. "I think that Joe Rogan's ideology is the biggest threat to critical thinking in the last decade."
Joe Rogan's "ideology?" His ideology is to smoke massive amounts of pot, swim in a vault of Spotify money likes he's Scrooge McDuck, and have conversations with people. Politically, he's pretty far left, outside a few cultural issues. He just doesn't hate people who disagree with him, so he invites them on his show. They talk. He exchanges thoughts and ideas with a wide range of people who think a wide range of things, and this is what people claim is a "threat to critical thinking." Which tells you all you need to know about people who say things like "critical thinking."
This teacher — who at this point it's safe to assume is a leftist assclown — is upset because teachers don't have full control over what kids are thinking or what they're told to think. "Critical thinking" is the ideas that the left finds acceptable and want to indoctrinate you with. That's the issue at the end of the day. It's not that Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson or YouTube's algorithm are "indoctrinating" young people. It's that leftists and apparently more than a few teachers don't like the competition.
from Steven Crowder Says
