Have you ever watched any national news stations when they are having discussions with people with different political backgrounds and race about a problem in America? All they do is argue and talk over each other using biased facts, they don't have a progressive conversation. It's really hard to have an intelligent and civil discussion in America because everyone wants to be victim and be offended. Anytime an issue is brought up whether it be race, religion, sexual assault, gun laws, equality, cultural appropriation, etc. instead of Americans actually having a conversation about it they just argue and play the blame game. For example the most frequent debates are about gun laws. Instead of people sitting and having a debate about how to stop people who aren't mentally stable from having a gun they choose to blame others and act like their uneducated. So, we get reactions like "well they need to arm teachers" or the most popular one is "you can't take our guns away" not realizing that when the protesters or politicians ask for gun-reforms or better gun laws they aren't talking about banning guns but making it harder to get one especially if you are mentally ill and if your teacher is mentally ill or gets pissed off enough than you could guess how that will go. No one wants to ban guns.The point is they refuse to think civilly about the situation people they don't know the definitions of the terms that are being used and think that they do. So they place blame and argue instead of continuing with a solution.
Are these myths bias or are they true? In Irvin's essay, "What Is “Academic” Writing?" he outlined and debunked 7 myths that most high school and college students were made to believe as they evolved as writers. The Myths Are: Myth #1: The “Paint by Numbers” myth Myth #2: Writers only start writing when they have everything figured out Myth #3: Perfect first drafts Myth #4: Some got it; I don’t—the genius fallacy Myth #5: Good grammar is good writing Myth #6: The Five Paragraph Essay Myth #7: Never use “I” Most of these myth's I have personally never heard of but I just can't agree with myth #1. The myth is described as "writers believe they must perform certain steps in a particular order to write “correctly.” Rather than being a lock-step linear process,-". Maybe it's just me being stubborn but I've always been taught to follow an evidence triangle or some type of layout when I wrote essays and it made it a little more easier an...
Great post! Our society has become less educated in the recent years, and some people do not know how to have a debate without offending anyone.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I agree.. to each man is their own! Its time for the government to just take responsibility and act on it in the most positive way. Enough with playing the blame game.
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