Let's talk about Maus, Tennessee, and failing a test....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated, |
| 0:05.0 | like your head is full of Raspberry, |
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| 0:15.0 | Money never felt like Monzo. |
| 0:18.0 | UK residents, Tease and see supply. |
| 0:21.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet People's bow again so today we are going to |
| 0:27.0 | talk about what the author of mouse might be getting wrong and I say might be |
| 0:31.6 | because I'm I'm not 100% sure I saw an interview and we'll get to all that |
| 0:38.1 | If you don't know what's going on a school board in Tennessee people who are in theory supposed to be educators they have |
| 0:48.7 | decided to remove mouse to to ban it, can't be taught. |
| 0:57.0 | If you don't know what mouse is, it's a graphic novel, critically acclaimed, it's a comic book. It is a comic book that is set in the most horrible |
| 1:08.4 | period of the 20th century. And it tells the story through animals, mice, you know. The author gave an interview and seemed to be trying to entertain the school board's objections in good faith, trying to take each individual argument and kind of mull it over in his head. |
| 1:40.0 | And I don't know if he was doing this simply because he's in shock because of how it appears, |
| 1:47.0 | or he was doing it as a rhetorical device, because that's an effective rhetorical device. |
| 1:52.0 | If you can take a bad faith argument |
| 1:55.9 | and destroy it while treating it as a good faith argument, |
| 2:00.3 | it works. |
| 2:02.0 | Some people do it so often that they have a catchphrase for when they start to do it. |
| 2:07.0 | And if you don't believe me, let's just pretend that it's true for a minute. |
| 2:11.0 | It works. But I couldn't tell if that's what he was doing. With the |
| 2:18.2 | absolute most respect possible, if you are actually entertaining these arguments in good faith do not do that |
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