Miss California and Gay Marriage - A Clinic on Critical Thinking!
Studies have proved that "common sense" is neither common nor sensible, and the question round of the Miss America Pageant 2009 proved once again, that critical thinking is not a natural instinct, but a learned skill that must be taught. Unlike many of the critics of beauty pageants in general, I am a huge supporter or the pageant system. Much like "gangsta rap", beauty pageants are a necessary evil, that shed light on and give voice to a deeply troubled and conflicted community of people: ignorant lower and middle-class Americans.
Yikes... Those are such strong words to use, but to understand what I'm really trying to say, let's find out exactly what ignorant means. Merriam-Webster defines ignorant as:
Now granted, Miss California has most definitely finished high school, but the type of knowledge and education that I am referring to, most people never receive until they reach higher education. In fact, our current outdated and antiquated public school system is not meant to teach people how to think for themselves at all, but how to become productive members of the working class. In other words, our "educational system" and many times our parenting styles are actual moving to keep us ignorant, uniformed, lacking in knowledge and comprehension.
Would you like to hear exactly what an ignorant and brainwashed person sounds like?
PEREZ: Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?
CARRIE: I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be between a man and a woman.
Justice... come on now. This is America, we're all entitled to our own opinions right? Of course! I believe that more than most. My issue, is that the majority doesn't want people to have their own opinion. They want everyone to have their opinion. That is why we indoctrinate people and don't educate people. This woman didn't have anything to say about the subject except for ,"This is what my mommy and daddy told me." That is not a proper representation of who we as Americans are.
We should be a land, where varying views and points of view are presented, discussed and researched in plain view for everyone to come to their own conclusions.. We should be teaching out children from the youngest age possible, how to analyze and synthesize different material and come to their own conclusions. Is it any wonder that religion loses it's hold on those who have actually received a college education? Is there any wonder that you see three different things on every street corner of every poor and uneducated community: Liquor stores, Porn shops, and churches.
Makes you wonder. People.. we've got to learn to think.. critically!
Categories: Critical Thinking,Education,LGBTQ
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