To be honest the trailer didn't do it for me. I know it's just a trailer but it didn't really show any actual examples of classroom thought policing. Hopefully it will screen someplace nearby so I can check out the whole movie.
Seems like it would be a subject in which it would be _incredibly_ easy to mislead your audience, simply by reporting some events but not their context or other events which contradict the overall thesis. I expect the Ben Stein Intelligent Design movie Expelled to work the same way.
Not a fair criticism. It's easy to mislead your audience about any subject when you get to decide what to show and what to suppress. Everyone is responsible for their own critical reading of a source whose biases aren't known.
Well, I haven't seen the film. My point is that this particular highly politicized subject matter is extremely easy to mislead.
9.27.2007 9:31pm
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Not a fair criticism. It's easy to mislead your audience about any subject when you get to decide what to show and what to suppress. Everyone is responsible for their own critical reading of a source whose biases aren't known.
good point, we are all responsible for our own critical readings regardless of the stated or implicit biases of the informers.
Well, I haven't seen the film. My point is that this particular highly politicized subject matter is extremely easy to mislead.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.