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Warren Smith

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

It's another, if you're going to have a discussion, if a student asks you to explain, which literally happened to me, what is the difference between the left and the right, essentially?

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

Or what is communism?

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

you can do it in a fair and balanced way.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

I think it's what we're seeing play out.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

Yeah, it just creates more of a tribal sense because everyone coming out of that system, out of that college that I've encountered personally, I can assure you there's no one coming out with a different point of view because it's being hammered so hard.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

And I was hired to be the personal videographer

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

this is how I made money as a student, to the dean I was referring to with the presidents in China.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

So she would hire me to go in when there's a public speaker or someone coming and I would do a promotional video, edit it quickly and get it out in two days.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

And so I got to see, Emerson has a very prestigious journalism program.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

And I got to see the people they were coming in, they were bringing in to speak, and they would bring in a conservative.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

This was when Trump was in the election.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

There was not, every conservative they brought in, I still have the video, the footage, too, of some of this.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

Every single speaker was still anti-Trump, the conservatives.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

They were explaining how he's not a real conservative.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

It was incredible.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

The most nuanced, interesting speaker was a Trump impersonator, though.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

I have some great footage of that where Rolling Stone was doing a thing on him.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

He was getting some traction.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

I don't know where he went, but he came in and laid into the students and being like, no one thinks what you're doing is cute.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Dead - Warren Smith

You all are striving.