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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
So Sommers suffers from guilt by association?
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Not necessarily, but it certainly is a useful heuristic. Either she agrees with him enough to be associated with him, or didn't do any homework on him, either case makes me less inclined to invest a lot of effort into seeing if what she's saying has any merit.
She certainly didn't seem to think it necessary to support anything she says in the video, the first link in the details of the video isn't a list of sources, but a link to donate.
Look at the video titles on their University:
History: "Was it Wrong to Drop the Atom Bomb on Japan?"
PolySci: "Is the UN Unfair to Israel"
History: "Why is modern art so bad?"
PolySci: "How the Liberal University Hurts the Liberal Student"
Religion: "God vs. Atheism: Which is More Rational?"
All 5ish minute videos, none of which had a single reference that I saw.
I don't know if I should laugh or weep.
That's not eduction, it's just preaching. Not even preaching, when I preached at least I supported what I was saying.