College Rant: I hate Crypto-marxist teachers

Class today in my religion class was really a horrific thing.

Never before have I walked out of a class in anger about what a professor is doing.

This time I got to my car, and I had my ignition turned on. I decided against it however.

Class was an annoyance before the walk out because the teacher's aid was talking about everything -BUT- Islam. When had the Teacher give a very rough introduction to Islam which was political correct new history at its finest. Then we had two problems come up. 1) We talked about the research project for the class ( and I needed the help so I accept that) and 2) we had a hurricane.

We had one day left to devote to Islam and he barely touched on it in a way that I would classify as "teaching". He then however made the comparisson that got me mad. He said that the thinking behind the terrorists of today was started by the US in WWII with the droping of the atomic bombs.

Lets set aside for a moment "Was droping the atomic bombs bad"
Lets set aside for a moment "Was droping the atomic bombs needed"

Lets review some history... In World War II their were earlier episodes of civilian reprisals on both sides of the war. Some of which (Dresden, and Tokyo) were far more lethal and far more destructive then the droping of the atomic bombs.

Ok so already the Justification is not just the US and it was not just the atomic bombs.

But lets step back

I can pick incidents going back as far as Alexander the Great ( Indeed the T.A picked incidents going back as far as the biblical israelittes) of all sorts of nations committing reprisals against civilians to change the course of the war.

What changed between those events and the droping of the Atomic bombs? The technology got more efficent at killing people.

When you have to put value to a group by negating another in my "World Perspectives" class we talked about it as the politics of "The Other" in Nationalism.

In this case he was using that Nationalist technique in a very socialist way to make the group he was speaking to, into a other.