My favorite part was when he asked the professor about the African slave traders

Was she really a professor? Given the size of the class and the subject discussed, I’d say it’s more likely she was a grad school or undergrad teacher’s assistant.

Although the Berkeley campus is widely regarded as one of the premier teaching and research universities in the world, there is no way to classify a Cal student. UC Berkeley is home to top scholars in every discipline, accomplished writers and musicians, star athletes, and groundbreaking scientists—all drawn to this place because of the wealth of opportunities it holds for creativity, innovative thinking and progress.
From liberal to slacker, from slacker to statist! Berkeley fevuh… catch it!

ya2daup on September 21, 2009 at 8:06 PM

Sorry, but I judge a university by the quality of students it produces, not how many freeloaders work on the faculty.

Many Berkeley folks nowadays satisfy their history requirement with an AP test, so complaining that Berkeley doesn’t teach them history is beside the point; most folks aren’t at Berkeley for the history (or for that matter for the politics).

calbear on September 21, 2009 at 7:04 PM

This is total bullsh!t. These are students who are supposedly in the top 12% of their high school class, who supposedly paid attention in school, who supposedly got very high scores on the SAT/ACT, and who supposedly have gone above and beyond to get into the number 1 ranked public university in the nation (supposedly). If they don’t know this stuff then (and a lot of it is very simple) then the number 1 ranked university is a joke (which I’ve always said). The purpose of a university education is to impart critical thinking in a vast arenas, and to seek truth. None of which is evident with any of the morons interviewed by Crowder.

Having grown up in No Cal and having been around many Cal Bezerkly types I can tell you without a doubt the professor is a liar when she said she didn’t know the answer to that “good question.” She knows damn well what the answer was, hell I knew the answer to that question in junior high school and she’s a damn college professor and doesn’t know the answer…I call MAJOR BS!!!

She feigned ignorance because the truth contradicted her revisionist history BS thus undermining her demonize America agenda!

The fact is she’s and her lefty professors are all LIARS and history revisionists whose sole purpose is not to educate but to brainwash our children to further their leftist/socialist/Marxist ideology at their Indoctrination Universities!

It’s still quite sobering. *These people are being prepared for real life?* Some life.

The only hope for us is that the hard sciences are fairly immune to this, because you have to think to get through them. However, you reap what you sow. When aircraft start falling out of the air, you know the infection has reached the technical trades. By the way, I know many of the technical trades. They are generally personable and nice people, but few of them know the “why” of what they are doing, and I am sure they often “drift”. We are getting engineers of similar ilk. In another 5 – 10 years, we will have lost our institutional knowledge and lessons learned.

I expect to have very little use of technical and mechanical contrivances by then, out of self preservation. Good luck, y’all.

Anyone could walk on to any campus with a video camera and find a few less-than-bright sound bytes. I’m guessing the general weakness of these means that this guy probably got pretty well-read answers on the whole and/or he’s just not very good at this sort of thing.

does crowder turn people into idiots?

how could they not know that Bush caused the great depression?
ndanielson on September 21,

Cuz it wasn’t on MTV! Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

If Berkeley accepts people through AP with such dismal knowledge, it leads one to question what standards Berkeley holds.

It doesn’t use the AP scores to determine acceptance (to my knowledge), just to determine whether or not they have to take a class. Most universities do the same. The AP test was just one test taken by these students. Since most people don’t use the knowledge soon after taking the test, it fades. And no high school is going to spend a day going through the various theories behind the cause of the Great Depression. They’re just going to lay out the major events and their consequences.

Anyway, by the logic of the anti-Berkeley crowd, you should be glad they got the knowledge in a high school rather than from a leftist Berkeley professor.

It’s also curious that Crowder chose to do this at the start of the school year. If he were really interested in seeing the school’s influence on the mind, he should do this in May, when everyone’s thoroughly indoctrinated, rather than in September, when everyone’s the most free from the influence of professors (and scholastic knowledge in general).

Crowder’s better at rants.

Many Berkeley folks nowadays satisfy their history requirement with an AP test, so complaining that Berkeley doesn’t teach them history is beside the point
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calbear on September 21, 2009 at 7:04 PM

Umm, if they took AP history, then they should know the answers to the questions. If Berkeley accepts people through AP with such dismal knowledge, it leads one to question what standards Berkeley holds.

Russ on September 21, 2009 at 10:21 PM

The only way I’d feel more sorry for your nephew was if he was conservative AND in ROTC AND at Berkeley. That aside, he must be a very strong and principled individual to deal with their collective psychosis day in and day out.

BTW, no offense to ROTC. Those guys and gals rock.

I keep telling the kid he ought to keep a diary and write a book after he graduates.

da,da Benjamin Franklin, da, da because he created that really cool day planner.

Caper29 on September 21, 2009 at 7:09 PM

Yes, thanks President Franklin!

Even so, a bit of a letdown in an environment this target-rich.

Step across the street (though technically off campus) onto Telegraph Avenue and it would’ve been fish in a barrel.

The saddest thing about all of this is….these MORONS are going to be running this country in the future.
Cheese and Rice.

milwife88 on September 21, 2009 at 7:10 PM

They are running/ruining it NOW.