Monday, 17 Apr 2006
I feel like everything presented to me lately is ‘loaded.’
I’ve learned about loaded questions in psychology and philosophy classes, and thats exactly what everything seems like. It seems like everything that is taught to me or said to me has presuppositions. For example, these assignments for my personality psych class piss me off. When they assign them, they have specific detailed responses in mind, and grade them based on whether or not you have included those specifics! WHAT THE FUCK is the point? Do the people that have to grade them really want to read the same fucking paper over and over again 180 times? And if so, why not say in the assignment (at least in this vague way) that they are looking for specifics? Especially since if there is other context involved, and we are amateurs, all of the specifics may not apply; there is much more room for error. The way I see it, is bringing up relevant points and being concise is the most important, not exhausting every specific detail about a topic, whether it has relevance to what you’re talking about or not. And in my African American Psychology class, when the professor was presenting data to us about income comparisons and crime rates…and racism, I feel like they are teaching me that these two are not mutually exclusive, which they are. And I think that is what should be taught–the neutral of the situation, or at the very least, both sides. What I mean is, they are saying that crime rates are so high because the police, and people that will report them are racist, or they target Blacks because ‘they commit more crime’. Well, then the other side will say that the ‘racist’ claims are justified because the statistics say Blacks commit more crime. Well, you cant have both, and you cant reverse the roles, because neither of those solves anything, and if anything both are contributing to racism itself..




