Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "" video.

You mean more of a college indoctrination
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@amateuroverlord8007 these days, not really. Have you seen the recent comments by Yeonmi Park? She is correct in that college teaches you what to think, not how to think. I have been in academics for years and I am close to getting out with my PhD and really can't get far enough away fast enough. It sucks because I love working with the students when I teach them, but the admin, other graduate students and professors are basically as sociopaths. They have religious like beliefs and if you challenge them they dismiss you and even go as far as try to eliminate you. I had to talk to the few professors (one of them my boss) that were not like that and they ended up telling me to act like how Park acted, shut up, keep my GPA and get out. It is sad because college is supposed to be a place where debates and discussion takes place with people of numerous ideas but, in the end, we can all still get along. These days it has become a safe space for many people mainly on the left. I can give many examples with my experience if you want, but the people running universities are crazy anymore.
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@amateuroverlord8007 to give an example, when the George Floyd situation happened I immediately got emails from my university entitled "I can't breath, again" talking about how awful police brutality is and how they support the black community. My reaction was that while the video looked bad, we should take a step back and wait for all the evidence to come out before we make a conclusion. That was criticized by my colleagues and administration. Apparently pushing the idea of waiting for facts and evidence before making a conclusion is extreme. I can give more examples but that is one of the recent ones in the past year.
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@Zink Bomb yeah, here you go. As I said, the video looked awful. But when you looked deeper there was video of Floyd with 3 other black individuals, none were harm. Floyd was saying he could not breath while standing up. He has a history of drug use and having high blood pressure. Thus, any kind of excitement can lead to him having a heart attack and stroke. But during the interaction the cops were working with him. Therefore, there was no intent to kill. Now the knee on the neck situation is up for discussion. If that is proper police protocol that can be looked into to possibly change. However, people have gone through much more stressful and physically demanding situations and do not die. So there was more to it. So yes, people should have waited for more evidence.
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@keirfarnum6811 maybe that Navy Seal was very liberal himself and he felt at home. As I said, I can give more examples. Take the January 6th situation. For a year BLM was rioting and causing damage and people ignored it, along with my university. They endorsed BLM. But after January 6th my university immediately dismissed those people. Instead, what we should be doing is trying to understand why so many supported Trump, and why those people were pissed off to the point to do what they did, you know, try to understand them, work with them to unite us. I was pissed when Trump lost. Now I was not going to riot, but when it happened and people who supported Trump were being ignored and dismissed, while also getting emails from the university about unity, it is irritating.
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@keirfarnum6811 another is now with pride month the university is showing the rainbow colors on their website. The university should be apolitical and not show that (really, pride month should not be a thing as gays should be treated as equals, not be given special privileges). Another was how the university was doing budget cuts by shutting down the pharmacy they had, but that same year they university paid and sponsored drag shows to be done on campus. Nothing against drag shows, but they should not be paying for it. Or back to the racism issue. After George Floyd I got an email a week later saying the university was going to do their part to support the black students in housing and education. Well one, were they not in the past? And two, I thought "well that was quick". But when the university was reopening due to covid and had three months to plan, it was a mess. They were all over the place on mask policy, on what forms to sign, on the layout of the campus to direct traffic? So in three months they could not solve that? But in a week they solved racism on campus even though the civil rights act was done over 50 years ago where racism is arguably a more complex issue? It is all virtue signaling and not productive. It is also showing lack of intellectual thought.
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@keirfarnum6811 people on drugs are unpredictable. But my point is this. Yes, it looked awful, but more evidence showed that the cops did not have the intention to kill. Thus, the worse crime was manslaughter. Next, again, if that is proper police practicing that is something we should look into. But we would only know that after........wait for it..........an investigation. Not a short video.
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@amateuroverlord8007 what she was saying that, as in N. Korea, people are being taught what to think, not how to think. That is a problem. But what makes it worse is that in the US we have access to a ton of information and still decide to remain ignorant. Look at the covid response. The second the media and many of our leaders and people in power told us there is a scary virus and we must shut down and hide in fear, people did without question. People were not questioning things on why a gym is closed but a liquor store is opened. And when someone did many said "follow the science" and "listen to the experts" as if "experts" cannot be wrong and also cannot lack morals. There is a long history of scientists doing awful things. Consider the scientists in Japan during WWII and the awful things they did. You talk about execution, it doesn't have to be simply killing. Many universities will simply fail students or kick them out if you disagree. I disagreed with things and people threatened to kick me out. During covid I spoke up and made the comment on dumb we are acting. As the example I gave with the Floyd incident and racism. How a week later the university claimed they were "addressing racism on campus" and apparently were able to come up with a plan in a week. But when it came to covid and reopening they were all over the place. No standard in masks. They said every lab will be provided with cleaning supplies, they were not. We were told to sign a daily form, then told not to, then told to, etc. They were all over the place and had 3 months to figure it out. I pointed that out how it is amazing a group of doctorates cannot figure something out in three months but apparently can solve racism in a week. The school threatened to kick me out. My advisor, who is one of the few who support me, found a way to keep me. But what is clear is those in admin and professors do not want to be challenged. If you do they will simply "execute" you by kicking you out and ruining your career. As for you it is clear you are a leftist and you felt right at home at a university. I am getting my PhD and I am looking to get out of it. The people there are insane. To me I see a lot of why they chose academics, a life of where you get tenure and stop working. If they worked in the private sector they will be fired for not being productive. "If you work in academia where presumably the most philosophically minded people gravitate to, and your personal politics are out of line with all or most of your peers, maybe you need to do some self reflecting?" That is the issue, the most philosophically minded people do not gravitate there. For many they are people who are very intelligent at one thing and ignorant elsewhere. Politics aside, the amount of stupidity I have seen was amazing. I have colleagues who do not chain up gas cylinders that, if they fell, can literally go through brick walls. But they get all pissed off if you did not wear a mask. I had colleagues who walked into our machine shop while someone was behind a barrier welding and walked towards that person with no proper eyewear. I have seen people run a vacuum pump with no oil and wonder why it locks up. The list goes one. For being so "philosophically" minded the fact they run a pump with no oil, it locks up and they cannot think why says something. The fact is these people are insane. They are not philosophers. The worse is when they do not care about the students. You can say I am an outcast at my university but the reality is I feel you experience at your university was the way it was because it was you left wing paradise.
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@amateuroverlord8007 here, I will give another example. In one of my MBA courses my professor started talking about climate change when he clearly knew little about it. He went on a rant about how bad it is when it had nothing to do with the course. Why will he do that? Also, the more moderate to conservative professors I had were those who worked in the private sector and taught a night course as in one of my MBA courses. Or those who worked in the private sector and then went back to become an instructor as I know one of my colleagues have done. With me I feel it is a factor of a few things. I feel they are people who are very brilliant at their one thing and ignorant at everything else. But to obtain a PhD you do need to have confidence and an ego. But no matter how wrong they are they still voice their opinion with confidence but get all butt hurt if you challenge them. Or they are simply sociopaths. Most likely a mixture.
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@amateuroverlord8007 " I am sure it’s different if you want to work in academia, but boohoo." Work in academics. Become an expert at only one thing, know nothing about everything else, get tenure and float on by. This is another issue with academics, that is a lot of ways all they know. When I worked numerous jobs and interacted with numerous people I developed myself as a person. Now compare that to someone in academics and that is all they have know.
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@amateuroverlord8007 last point, look at Noam Chomsky. He is brilliant in his field and has made an impact. Outside of it, though, he is ignorant. But he feels the need to voice his opinion. People fall for him because one, he has a doctorate and many blindly follow those that do (consider covid and the whole "follow the scientists" issue even though scientists are human and have done awful things in the past), two, he does speak well and he also writes well. But if you look past that he is very ignorant. When he said the republican party is the worse party of all time that is asinine. No matter how you feel about that party they were nowhere near as bad as the Nazi party in WWII.
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@amateuroverlord8007 with Park's point, she is pointing out how people are told what to think, not how to think. And it seems you fell in to that trap. You feel universities attract people with a philosophical mindset. Most likely that is what you have been told your entire life, that you been told that university professors are ultra intelligent with great minds. Fact is that they are human as well and thus have flaws and can also do evil. Also, I know a lot of very intelligent people who never attended college. This is no different than with covid when many were told to "trust the experts" when experts can be wrong and also can do evil as well. We should not be blindly following people just because they have a doctorate.
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@amateuroverlord8007 I don't like Candace Owens. Also, I know a lot of lawyers, they are pretty chilled. Same with the healthcare field. The problem with academics is that many young minds go there for an "education" when they get exposed to lack of intellectual thought. Again, take the Floyd incident. When the university I go to immediately reaction is to talk about racism and police brutality as opposed to talking about waiting for all the facts to come out after an investigation, that is a problem. The intellectual route is to wait for all the evidence, go over it and then make a conclusion. Not jumping to a conclusion.
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@whosays1977 if you think Chauvin was guilty based off of that video you are closed minded. Someday if you are on trial I bet your tone will change as you will beg for as much evidence to come out to support you. This is why we have a justice system and an investigation. It is so arm chair judges like you don't make emotional conclusions off of little evidence.
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@amateuroverlord8007 your comment now supports what I am saying in that you are a leftist and you being on a university was your bubble. After the Floyd tape I admitted it looked awful, but I was able to control my emotions, step back and say we need all the facts before we jump to conclusion. After year of BLM being wrong on so many instances I know better. And when more facts came out it was clear it was not as bad as it first seemed. Cops were trying to help Floyd. There were three other black individuals with him, none were harm. Floyd was saying he could not breath while standing up. When he was going into the patrol car he was saying he could not breath and the cop said they would roll the window down. He asked if he can lay on the ground so the cops let him do it while waiting for medical help. The cops could have just shoved him in the patrol car and drove off, but there was clear signs of trying to help him. Also, if you read my comments I admitted that if the knee on the neck was typical police action that is something to look into to reform police. I also fully support punishing bad cops. You saying "People “waiting for the facts” in the George Floyd situation were waiting for a suitable excuse for the officers" Also proves my point. It isn't waiting for a suitable excuse for the officers. I want bad cops to be punished. But we need an investigation. The fact is that you, like many in academics, have a firmly held, religious like belief on issues and you will do anything to confirm that. After an investigation and trial a conclusion was made. Do I agree with it? Not fully because I did not agree with the city giving millions to Floyd's family before a trial was done. I did not agree with Maxine Waters telling people to get more confrontational if there is a not guilty verdict. I did not agree with the 2nd degree murder conviction as I said all the time that, at worse, it was manslaughter based on the definition. But in the end I stepped back and waited for the whole thing to play out. You jumping to a conclusion immediately is proving my point. You have a religious like belief. You felt great at a university because that was your church.
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@amateuroverlord8007 also, look up Tony Timpa. Why no uproar there?
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@amateuroverlord8007 also, as for "excuse for officers", I am willing to challenge the system and authority. So why would I be looking to make an excuse for cops? Here is the ironic part of the left, they are all over the place with their standards.
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@amateuroverlord8007 I never said "people with no expertise". I am talking about people who do not understand the basic facts before the get to opinions. Here you are twisting my words to justify your belief, you are proving my point again. How did he commit 2nd degree murder? Look up the definition and tell me how? " Also you “stepped back and waited for the whole thing to play out.” How is that any different from what anyone else did?" There were riots, my university immediately make the conclusion of there being racism in our society. People immediately declared Derek was in the wrong where I said we need to do a full investigation. Again, more video showed the cops did not have the intention to harm Floyd, let alone kill. Floyd was complaining about not being able to breath from the beginning. They tried to help him. At that point the whole knee on the neck thing comes down to two things 1. Is that police protocol? If it is Derek did nothing wrong based on training and we need to review police practice or 2. Derek, at worse, committed 2nd degree murder based on the definition. " You did the same thing, you just came to the complete opposite opinion as everyone else, and that opinion was shown to be wrong objectively in a court of law." No, I did not come up with a conclusion. Again, here is where you are proving my point that you are a religious like belief in something. Read what I wrote. After I saw all the evidence I concluded that 1. If the knee on the neck is typical police protocol then it that should be reviewed or 2. If it is not, then Derek should be tried for possible manslaughter Again, you are proving my point. You are making claims about me that are simply not true because I am challenging your religious like belieft.
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@amateuroverlord8007 "Every attorney I know that watched that trial expected a conviction." Doubt that. You know how many lawyers I know? A lot. Any lawyer who bases a conclusion off of just video is a crap one.
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@ahorsewithnoname643 uh, I am getting a PhD in physical chemistry bud.
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@ahorsewithnoname643 guilty of murder after a long investigation. Thanks for proving my point.
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Consenting adults should be allowed to do what they want? So, like, not take the vaccine for a virus that was a scam?
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The concept is that while you are staying at home getting high the powers to be are screwing you over. I do not completely agree with the analogy but there is something to it.
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Kirk has a point. This nation is allowing weed to delivered to us to distract us from how the powers to be are controlling us. Look at how things are bad economically under Biden, and how Biden is lost but the current distraction is to create a new federal holiday. Distract us with shiny things while the powers to be grow.
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One of the ideas is that many times weed can be used in a plea bargain in many cases. Such as if you are being charged with multiple crimes the weed can be used as a plea bargain.
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The idea is that while you are distracted by smoking weed the powers to be are screwing you over.
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