Political Arguments

My class in political science yesterday reminded me of how liberal people in New York are. In other words, a wide majority of people would vote for democrats in elections. My professor openly announced that he was registered as a republican and this lead to an uproar of questions by students. I think this is unfortunate because it shows how bigoted people can be.

If a person does not like someone’s opinion, he or she should not become aggressive and suddenly turn against that person. Instead, they should listen and learn from that person. Many people in New York grow devil horns when they hear the word republican. It is really that bad. This leads to some sort of discrimination where people start to automatically assume that everything republicans do is bad.

One problem for the republicans is that they do not have a strong spokesperson in New York at the moment. Also, schools especially are dominated by democratic professors and textbooks written by liberal journalists.

I am not trying to advocate for the republicans. Instead, I want to raise awareness that both political parties should listen to each other. Having a balanced House of Representatives and Senate can lead to exceedingly innovative solutions and this also pertains to classroom discussions. Most importantly, neither party should look upon the other with despise. That only proves that there is a lack of knowledge and understanding.

There are of course republicans in the classroom. The problem with having 90% of the class yelling out anti-republican statements is that the other 10% rather sit quiet than challenge their statements. It takes a courageous person to step up because he or she will most likely be looked down upon for the rest of the quarter if most other students are narrow-minded extremists.

However, if another left-wing stream of arguments occurs again, I am going to speak up. It will be interesting to observe whether students can actually start accepting others’ opinions or if they will go berserk. The professor is fairly neutral although he did announce his political standpoint. I do believe that he would appreciate some balance in the classroom though and I do not mind being the target of criticism in that class.