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Originally Posted by Cecily
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In the past, I've made a point to deliberately present an opposing view that respectfully acknowledges the professor's viewpoint. This gets you critical thinking skills bonus points, which is what college SHOULD be about entirely. My vegan, yoga-teaching English professor loved my critical take on Skinny Bitch (anti-dairy, vegan author) and read it to the class. In my conflict mediation class, I completely bashed the book Getting to Yes, the seminal text for the field of mediation. Teacher loved it.
I got the same (bad) advice from my mom and grandmother. I don't parrot ideas for the sake of manipulation, even if it costs me. I'm perfectly good at manipulation in other ways. Too many fucking yes men. Stand out is my advice.
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Do that as a straight while male not playing dress-up and the red pen of "fallacy" comes out. I seen't it firsthand. If you shroud yourself in "victimhood" you can go another way with it, as long as you don't outright oppose the indoctrination efforts.