If you teach kids history, it’s called “liberal indoctrination” because you have to point out that civil rights only applied to white men until 50 years ago. Discussion of discrimination against women and minorities = liberal indoctrination in some people’s minds.

100% this. When I left my home town in rural NY, there were I think 4 black people in the town, and the only Mexicans worked on the farms. Everyone else was white. Then I went to college, I was able to interact with people who came from different cultures, different backgrounds, people that had different beliefs and…

Absolutely. My ultra conservative family still dismisses my liberalism because I’m “young.” But I get more liberal, in terms of what they would consider liberal, as the years go on. If I’m a 35 year old with a spouse, a mortgage, a buncha kids, have now been in the work force for 20 years, how much more of an adult do…

Exactly. I think it has much more to do with critical thinking education which is much more prominent in college than high school. And I think it perfectly represents why, in some places, the GOP is doing everything they can to hinder critical (or really just “challenging”) thought in schools.

I wish I could have been apolitical at 18.

“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 40, you have no head.”

That’s not entirely fair—a lot of teens aren’t really educated on the issues, and if their families and friends are conservative and that’s all they know, they’re more likely to lean conservative. I was the same way (sans boyfriend) because I was raised in a very conservative Christian environment. I grew up and then…

My best friend and college roommate for three years is a conservative, and was a member of the college Republicans. He was (and is) an exemplary conservative and one whom I wish the party was full of.

As a huge fan of the Mass Effect games, I understand completely why people see computer games as the medium of the future, and I hope to see more games telling really interesting stories, but, print is far from dead, especially since the rise of the eBook.

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See, this goes back to my Top Gun conundrum. If a movies is seen by 80% of the nation and OWNED by about that many - CAN it be a bad film? I hear many shout YES without being able to explain why. The normal rationalization is that "I'm better than everyone else so I know what a good movie is."

Luke's journey to becoming a Jedi Knight would have had a lot more bumps.

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There is a Sanskrit word called "Yoddha". That means warrior.

"Skywalker. Skywalker. And why do you come to walk my sky, with the sword of a Jedi knight? ... I remember another Skywalker."

It may be heresy, but I think Lucas is a hack who got lucky. Good on him, to be sure. He struck it rich, but he's still a hack.

#1 We have Frank Oz to thank for the existence of Hamill's Joker since he got him into doing voices back then.

"And why do you come to walk my sky, with the sword of a Jedi knight?"