Critical Thinking Litmus Test
This list is a paraphrased list taken from Dennis Prager where he uses it to point out what your children will learn when you send them to college. I'm not smart enough to think this stuff up. I adapted it to create a 'critical thinking' list because we are always hammered in not using 'critical thinking skills', and I think that we need to learn how to apply and recognize what constitutes their 'critical thinking'; thus this 'critical thinking litmus test'.
This is the Litmus List to use for your 'critical' thinking. The way it works is to compare any of your opinions to this list. If your opinion is not compatible with any of the items on this list, then, you need to change/edit your opinion, so that it can be claimed as an appropriate opinion proclaimed by enlightened individuals as the Current Wisdom for today's Elitist Individuals.
Eventually, your opinions will become one and the same with this enlightened critical thinking test. Don't fret, it will take some practise, so be patient, but comfort yourself in the knowledge that you will soon become an enlightened critiacal thinking person.
An extra added benefit is that you will be able to 'judge' other people's opinions as well against this critical thinking test to see if you're hanging out with the right people. Don't hang out with those people that won't pass this test, because some of their 'uncritical thinking' may rub off on you and set you back.
OK, so much for the details on how to use this litmus list. Let's get started!!
1) - America's Exceptionalism is a 'Myth'
2) - US is NO better and sometimes WORSE than other countries
3) - God is NOT REAL and believing in God is both foolish and dangerous
4) - History of Christianity is of Bloody Crusades and Inquisitions
5) - Recognize the GOLDEN AGE of ISLAM, the religion of Peace
6) - Critizing Christianity is a MARK of Intellectualism and Sophistication
7) - An act of critizing ISLAM is hateful bigotry
8) - Israel is a Racist Apartheid State
9) - Zionism is Evil
10) - Palestinian Terrorism is Justifiable Resistance
11) - Conservatism and Individual Responsibility is in humane and heartless
12) - Liberal Social Welfare is Moral and Right
13) - Republicans cater to Racists
14) - You shouldn't know that Abe Lincoln was a Republican
15) - You should not know that the Klu Klux Klan was founded by Democrats
16) - Traditional Family Units are Homophobic
17) - All Whites are racists
18) - Non-Whites cannot be Racists
19) - Morals are defined by Class:
- Rich are Evil
- Good are the Poor
- Middle Class is mostly an unobtainable dream
20) - Human Beings are simply animals with a larger brain
21) - VictimHood Status:
- Women are the Victims of men
- Blacks are the Victims of Whites
- Gays are the Victims or Straights
- All of us are the Victims of Big Corporations
22) - Corporate Greed is only restrained by Union Collectiveism
23) - Our Constitution is outdated and should be scrapped
24) - America Bombed Hiroshima out of Racism
25) - Use of the Atomic Bomb was a War Crime
26) - Everything the WEST has, has been stolen from somebody else
27) - It is time for us to Give it Back
28) - There is no better and no worse in literature and the arts
29) - Big government is the only humane way to govern a country
30) - The great world and societal battles are not between good and evil, but between rich and poor and the powerful and the powerless
31) - Pacifism is noble
32) - The American Founders were sexist, racist slaveholders whose primary concern was preserving their wealthy status
33) - Recognize same-sex marriages as normal and moral
34) - Conservatives and Christians believe mixed race marriages to be immoral, abnormal and sinful
EDIT: added a few more to the list
