This guy is not in your league, Glenn. Did he even understand what you were talking about when you defended “the beauty of ideas?”
After getting by that Bessner writes for Jacobin and a list of leftist rags, he undermined what remained of his credibility by inappropriately sprinkling the word “like” throughout like a 15-year old. And ended every sentence with an inflection indicating a question. This is a common flaw in modern speech and it further makes the listener question whether the speaker even believes his own claims.
The Marxist lens was also a problem. He trotted out every tired leftist cliche, and used the common trick of prefacing a statement with “well, I am not an expert in education” or whatever to avoid accountability.
I especially liked his claims about human nature. One of the reasons capitalism succeeds is because it acknowledges our flaws and works with them. Yes capitalism needs some regulation and it is regulated. Socialism starts out by saying that human nature must be changed for such a system to achieve its aims. Hasn’t worked. When asked where socialism has succeeded he answered Cuba. Because they have “free” healthcare.
And he is teaching history to the next generation.
And I forgot. Does he not know that the Chinese are colonizing African countries? They don’t only want hegemony in their own part of the world. Like Nyberg below says, a lot of mindreading going on there.
This guy is not in your league, Glenn. Did he even understand what you were talking about when you defended “the beauty of ideas?”
After getting by that Bessner writes for Jacobin and a list of leftist rags, he undermined what remained of his credibility by inappropriately sprinkling the word “like” throughout like a 15-year old. And ended every sentence with an inflection indicating a question. This is a common flaw in modern speech and it further makes the listener question whether the speaker even believes his own claims.
The Marxist lens was also a problem. He trotted out every tired leftist cliche, and used the common trick of prefacing a statement with “well, I am not an expert in education” or whatever to avoid accountability.
I especially liked his claims about human nature. One of the reasons capitalism succeeds is because it acknowledges our flaws and works with them. Yes capitalism needs some regulation and it is regulated. Socialism starts out by saying that human nature must be changed for such a system to achieve its aims. Hasn’t worked. When asked where socialism has succeeded he answered Cuba. Because they have “free” healthcare.
And he is teaching history to the next generation.
And I forgot. Does he not know that the Chinese are colonizing African countries? They don’t only want hegemony in their own part of the world. Like Nyberg below says, a lot of mindreading going on there.