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September 1, 2004

change that attitude

Tuesday night I had my latest grad school class called persuasion and attitude change, which will also be my first rhetoric class ever. Most of my undergrad coursework consisted of hard science requiring lots of memorization, as opposed to a lot of fuzzy concepts in this class. I detected a few holes of support coursework needed to grasp some of the concepts, but I think reading the required texts should help that out. I have a cool small class of about a dozen people, including a Japanese woman who is taking the course to maybe try to help get the U.S. military base off of her hometown of Okinawa. Classroom discussion is encouraged, so it should be an interesting semester. And guess what one of our research and discussion topics is going to be? The GLBTwhatever marriage rights issue! BWA HA HAAA! I'm not saying it's gonna be a breeze, but considering all my rants from this summer, I feel particularly well informed on the topic. The downside is that the class goes from 6:30 to 9:30 in the evening, so getting home takes a while.

We were even assigned to watch the current Creature Convention on TV and study the dialectics and rhetoric flowing from it. As it stands, from DC we can smell the toxic gasses emanating from the thousands of blowhards spewing hate from up in NYC, as opposed to the mild breezes of indifference from the Boston convention.

Hmm...just read through a bit of the 2004 Republican Party Platform: A Safer World and a More Hopeful America, which states:

"We affirm traditional military culture, and we affirm that homosexuality is incompatible with military service."

You're welcome, assholes.

Posted by jimbo at September 1, 2004 10:50 PM

Comments

Seems like the air should be a bit cleaner in DC this week with all that stink up in NYC.

Posted by: homer at September 1, 2004 3:04 PM

Air smelled okay to me last night in the hall. :) What did you study as an undergrad, Jimbo?

Posted by: wyocwby at September 1, 2004 3:50 PM

Two degrees: biology and resource management, emphasis in environmental education and interpretation. Translation: park ranger schooling.

Posted by: jimbo at September 1, 2004 4:27 PM

Wow - you can borrow some of my rants...

Ya know - let them adopt that damn platform so that they can NEVER justify NOT dischargingin someone who doesn't want to fight in Bush's war for oil and money who says they are gay. If it is incompatible in peacetime, it is incompatible in wartime. Dammit. Hypocrites.

Posted by: Dan at September 1, 2004 7:20 PM

In the marriage debate most people focus on the legal rights and responsibilities, which is understandable given that it's the legal contract we are trying to access. What often gets left out of the debate is the fact that we grow up in the same families, with the same values, hopes and dreams as our straight siblings. If marriage is a "tradition," then it is just as much our tradition as it is our straight siblings'.

I hope that when you get to present your persuasive argument you'll include the notion that marriage, neither the word nor the concept, is exclusively owned by our straight siblings. We are also heirs to the tradition. Good luck with the class!

Posted by: Letao at September 1, 2004 9:53 PM

Thanks, I will!

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