I felt like reflecting/criticizing (on) my liberal sociology classes I took at GSU as an undergrad social studies major. I will not release the names of the professors. The Curriculum for all of the classes was extremely liberal, regardless of the personal approach of each individual teacher.
Race Relations:
Out of all my liberal sociology teachers this one definitely deserves to have his name released publicly. This guy was overtly biased towards conservatives and would not even address the opposing arguments. The first day we sort of got off to a bad start (or maybe it was the second day, it’s been a while), I will say the first week. The teacher claimed that race was a social construction (in accordance with the curriculum), and that no such categories existed, but then he proceeded to preach racial essentialism. What is racial essentialism? Racial essentialism is the very stuff of racism, it is the idea that there are essential/innate behavioral characteristics endemic to certain racial groups. This idea is of course a load of crap. Social behaviors and mores are determined by the process of enculturation, which is typically conducted by parents, but in this wicked times the government also plays an increasingly larger role in the process of raising children. If you adopt a child from a different race and raise them like your own from infancy, the odds are pretty good that they are going to share your culture and biases. Anyways, the teacher made me extremely uncomfortable from the beginning because he started preaching from the first day that there was no such thing as race, no such category as white, but only white people could be racist. How does that make sense? If there is no such category as “white people” then how can they be inherently racist. I tried to argue the point but the teacher shut me up in favor of the angry black female sitting next to me.
“I don’t want to hear what you say I want to hear what she has to say.”
So she went on about how all white people are inherently racist, while the teacher sat there nodding and agreeing with her as if she actually had something semi-intelligent and valid to say. Anyone with properly functioning logic centers would have realized how foolish her points were, because in order to make a sweeping claim like that she would have to get inside the head of EVERY white person in the world to see what they are really thinking. And if there is one out of a billion (or however many there are), then that is still ONE. It only takes one example to ruin an absolute statement like that. So really she was proving me right about how anyone can be racist, and the teacher either lacked the will or the wits to recognize it for what it was. So one strike against me was being white, strike two was being male, and strike three was being Christian. The WCM is the only thing which liberal pontificators enjoy bashing and expressing hatred towards more than Jews. Jews are their number two group of people to bash. The whole classroom felt like an angry lynch mob to me, so I eventually stopped talking because the teacher always tried to portray me as the enemy.
Another thing that was really funny/idiotic about that class, was that the teacher also said that EVERYONE was a little bit gay, and that we all, “repress the hell out of it (our supposedly innate gay tendencies).” Speak for yourself teacher. That is a sweeping generalization which is even worse than the one about all white people being racist, and the same principle about stating generalizations as if they were facts applies. Have you been inside of everyone’s head? No? Then it looks like you have a claim without any proof.
As a corollary to “everyone being a little gay” he tried to say that gender was a social construction, and that societies have to work hard to enforce gender distinctions. He tried to say that parents and societies had to force children into specific gender roles and behaviors because the natural tendency was to be asexual, which is just a little gay. Another foolish generalization. This time he was called out by the middle aged Ethiopian woman, who had been quiet all year. Basically she said that he was wrong, and that was not at all how it happened in her country (gender policing unnecessary).
“The men grow up to be men and the women grow up to be women.”
He of course tried to tell her that she was wrong, and that it was really the way he said it was, but he had never been to her country. The sheer unmitigated hubris of the guy was insufferable, but not as insufferable as the fact that he actually gets paid to teach this stuff.
Anyways, the whole class made me very uncomfortable, I did not like it, and the stuff taught in the class was absolutely worthless and backwards.
Families in Society
This class was actually a little bit more useful and scientific. The teacher was actually from communist China, and to preface the class she said she was an outsider in the US, and didn’t take any side in the political debates here (Conservative vs. Liberal). I actually don’t remember a whole lot from that class, but they talked about divorce and dealt a lot with statistics. The teacher was pretty neutral and she would actually let me talk during class discussions. Now, some of the people in the class would try to stop me from talking. There were a few liberals (all female) who would literally start screaming whenever I would try to say something, but rather than retaliating in kind I would wait until they finished up with their “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!” and then pick up right where I left off. The teacher got used to me saying something every day, so sometimes when she got done with her points she would call on me even if I had not raised my hand or done anything at all to call attention to myself.
During one class period the teacher actually stated that, based on observation as an outsider, conservatives were the American Patriots, we stood for the basis on which the country was founded, and that we were the philosophical and ideological heirs of the founding fathers. It was great because it was so unexpected, and of course the liberals whined and protested, without raising their hands. It is unfortunate that they didn’t learn basic classroom etiquette and procedures while in elementary school.
One thing which the curriculum taught which I did not agree with was the belief that although divorce rates have increased, infidelity rates have remained the same throughout the entirety of US history. Of course they presented no data or statistics to support this, but if everything they said was well thought out and supported by factual data then they could not be liberals.
Sexuality in Society
Disclaimer: This is going to be gross, so if you are easily offended don’t read it. But if you want to know what the liberals are up too then go right ahead.
This class was probably the most disturbing class that I have ever taken, although the teacher was a nice person. The teacher was open to hearing both sides and actually wanted to hear what I had to say (tried to force it out of me) whereas in that class I actually wanted to keep my mouth shut. I deemed that the people in there were too far gone for anything I said to make a constructive difference and I didn’t have any particular desire to be yelled at (I never have liked loud noises, my mother can vouch), so I just kept quiet. Once for about 30 seconds I made a quick point about one article written by some extreme leftists where they talked about how abortion was “a beautiful transforming experience,” and how wonderful it was for women to get abortions. I just pointed out real quick that the whole article totally circumvented the fact that a pregnancy was being terminated, which resulted in the premature death of the unborn child. They were so focused on the womans “right” to kill the baby, that they skipped over the fact that the baby was actually being killed. There were only two other times in there where I can actually recall saying something, one was about clothing, and the other was about rape. For the rape issue I argued that the rapist should be killed because they are likely to do it again and they need to be permanently punished in some way since they have permanently stolen something from a woman. The teacher actually backed me up with statistics. So this time, the teacher was not at fault, and actually wanted to hear what the conservatives had to say and took it seriously. So the receptiveness that all liberals claim to have, and don’t really have, she actually had. But the curriculum was another story.
The curriculum was nauseating. The first article I had to read for that class was called “Are we f****ng now?” and it was about a woman’s indecision over whether or not female sodomy could be considered sex. I contend that it is not sex but I have no wish to argue the point at this time. Anyways, the article included all sorts of vulgar language and descriptions of activities which I would rather have remained ignorant of. Fortunately I have forgotten most of the unpleasant mental images I got from reading that, and actually I only read about half the article. A lot of the reading for that class I did not complete because it was so revolting.
Another issue that came up in there was which race has the largest penis size. Of course the liberal writers didn’t want to claim that there was any size variation based on race. I personally could not have cared less, but the articles we read complained about how classical white racism is responsible for how black males in “mainstream” African American culture like to boast about having the largest. They complained about a lot more cultural sexual issues within this area but I won’t bring any more of them up because I don’t want to gross everyone out. Anyways, when people have a sense of propriety they don’t talk so much about things like penis size.
My favorite reading assignment for that class was probably the one where some feminists were complaining about how inherently racist and “evil” the white male is. The white male is racist, the white male hates women, the white male oppresses everyone else in the world including the white female, etc. etc. They were upset about how the white male typically pursues the white female, and that the white male wants to use the white woman to reproduce. Whenever the white male mentions that reproduction is essential for the “survival of the species” he is actually referring to the survival of the race. Then the writers called for solidarity among all white females to end white male racism by making themselves universally inaccessible to the white male until the racism inherent in the white male is cured. I think I remember this article so clearly because it is so stupid. First of all, not all white males hate women, I rather like them, and so does my brother, my dad, my grandfather, etc. Many friends and acquaintances do as well, although I certainly cannot speak for all white males. As far as I know I have not oppressed anyone. The point is, even if some oppression goes on, women in the US and Europe still have things a lot better off than women in, say…Africa (in terms of oppression). As far as racism goes, I don’t believe in racial stratification, essentialism, or harbor any genocidal feelings or hatred towards any race. If I don’t like someone, it is for a good reason, not for something they cannot help. Saying that all white men are racist is a huge overgeneralization, and it at least borders on circular reasoning. The best evidence presented for this claim was that white men usually marry white women, or that they are racist because they are white and male. Since the latter is circular reasoning, I will address the first one. First of all, males form their basis for what they find attractive early on in life. Their initial basis for what constitutes attractive is based on their early childhood impressions and memories of their mother. Their mother is the first woman they are exposed too so it is only natural for them to assume that her early physical appearance is ideal and/or proper, and use that as a standard for assessing beauty. This can expand later on but it will expand within those parameters more likely than not. So a male with a white mother is likely to be attracted to women with a more Caucasoid mien. A second point which the enlightened and unshaven feminists seem to gloss over, is that it is very difficult to insert oneself into a different racial group, so the fact that most white males marry white females really means nothing in terms of argument. Also, when ANY man says something like, “reproduction is essential to the survival of the species,” then it ought to be assumed that he believes that reproduction is essential to the survival of the species. This is just a basic scientific fact, humanity is a gendered species, which means that both genders are required for reproduction. A lot of males just want to have sex with no responsibility attached, but then there are also a lot of males which genuinely wish to reproduce, and we cannot do it by ourselves. There is no reason to assume racist undertones in a clear matter of fact statement like that. Some women (actually probably most) have this annoying tendency to assume adverse, and sometimes multiple, alternative meanings about things which are stated plainly. I don’t know why this tendency exists, but it just goes to show that despite looking like men, and dressing like men, and in spite of all their denial about gender being essential, the extreme feminists are still female. As far as the statement about avoiding and convincing others to avoid the white male, I say unto them please do so, and with my blessing. Why? Because women with any kind of sense are going to see the stupidity of their arguments, and by isolating themselves like that it will make it easier to avoid them. Of course the short hair, masculine clothing, and light fuzz above the upper lip will probably be sufficiently repellant to ensure that most white males (including myself) will avoid them anyways.
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