Word: argumentative
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What was that last one? Let me see if I can break the dean’s argument down. Lewis thinks that our desire for kegs at Harvard-Yale comes from a deeper, Freudian desire to live out our college years like the Coors Light ads we see on TV. The argument is as insulting as it is misguided, and in Lewis’ attempt to be Freud, the op-ed he wrote actually illuminates more about the administration’s state of mind than that of the students...
...call the boycotters’ activities “counterproductive” to their goals. This is like saying the Montgomery Civil Rights activists were going against their objectives by boycotting the bus system instead of having an open dialogue with the city. This hypothetical argument is as demeaning as it is preposterous because it completely fails to recognize the larger aims of the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott was not about African Americans wanting to sit where they chose on a bus; it was about furthering the goal of racial equality in America. Similarly, the Michigan boycott...
...good arguments he makes in the beginning of his piece, he falls apart at the end. After calling us “the best in the country” he reverts to counterfactual arguments about us not being able to “enjoy drinking without drinking in a way that beer ads on TV have taught [us] is the fun way to drink.” What does this mean, exactly? Does he mean to say that we, the smartest students in the country, have been brainwashed to think that kegs are the answer? Besides the obvious fact that...
ISLAMIC LAW SHE SAYS "I do not think that the Koran produced a law; the law is a result of centuries of human effort." HE SAYS "The argument that eliminates Islamic law as an intermediary is among those which, today, are threatening to plunge Muslims into religious anarchy...
...clergy; although it has no centralized authority, she argues it does have a professional category of scholars who control access to the sacred texts. As a believer, Babès claims the right to interpret the texts for herself. Oubrou rejects this, but does so using an interesting argument. He says it is precisely this disregard for learned interpretation that has enabled terrorists to present their literal reading of certain Koranic verses as a justification for their deeds. "These people read the Koran every day," says Oubrou, "and there's no shortage of passages calling for combat...