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Fine, but that doesn't really address any of the reasons I've given for Michael Moore hating America.
Huh? Blanket statements of "liberals are this" and "liberals are that" not displays of hate? That's roughly 50% of the population.
Has Glenn Beck made dozends of books and documentaries for each individual, unrelated thing he dislikes about America, wherein he passionately points out every one of its flaws he can think of without praising it for anything?
Glenn Beck cries for America, for Pete's sake!!!! :2razz:
Glen has got more of a partisan agenda than Moore, IMO. But he does incessantly whine about a bunch of things, particularly the left.
As for Moore, although he criticizes a lot, he does it because he wants change. He does not hate America. You're wrong about Moore not praising, BTW. He has many a time.
Has he stated that Americans might possibly be the stupidest people in the world?
Not sure, but if he has, he wouldn't be off-base. Note the key words here... "might." Might is not "is." Big difference, don't you think?
Okay, but that's not what you said. You said that, using the result, it's easy to conclude that Americans are the stupidest people on the planet.
No, I did not. At least, it was not my intention. I just took note of the National Geographic survey in which the 18-25 age group did quite poorly. They are dumb and did rather poorly on that question. So basically, what I get out of that statement is that the American school system might be lacking in certain areas, which is not news to me.
Here, take a look at another blow hard with his American hating title, 'Stupid in America' by John Stossel. Does he hate America, too?
To give you an idea of how competitive American schools are and how U.S. students performed compared with their European counterparts, we gave parts of an international test to some high school students in Belgium and in New Jersey.
Belgian kids cleaned the American kids' clocks, and called them "stupid."
We didn't pick smart kids to test in Europe and dumb kids in the United States. The American students attend an above-average school in New Jersey, and New Jersey's kids have test scores that are above average for America.
Lov Patel, the boy who got the highest score among the American students, told me, "I'm shocked, because it just shows how advanced they are compared to us."
The Belgian students didn't perform better because they're smarter than American students. They performed better because their schools are better. At age 10, American students take an international test and score well above the international average. But by age 15, when students from 40 countries are tested, the Americans place 25th.
American schools don't teach as well as schools in other countries because they are government monopolies, and monopolies don't have much incentive to compete. In Belgium, by contrast, the money is attached to the kids -- it's a kind of voucher system. Government funds education -- at many different kinds of schools -- but if a school can't attract students, it goes out of business.
Now tell me... if all you know about a student is that they got a D in a single subject one year, could you easily conclude, without knowing anyone else's grades on that or any topic, and without knowing that student's grade on any other subject, that the student is the stupidest person in the school? (Basic logic says that the answer is "no".)
No, of course not. The conclusion I can come up with is that student did poorly in that subject and needs to do something to get his her grades up.
Now answer this...
Did Moore make his statement of "Americas are possibly the dumbest people on the planet" based-on that one fact (the National Geographic survey) or could it have been from other finding that he did not disclose in that one quote?
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