From my experience in the Humanities critical thinking is rarely employed at all. Most topics are highly skewed into a neo-Marxist and pessemistic view of culture, history, and society. "Oppression" is everywhere, apparently, and our job, supposedly, as Humanities students is be angry about that.

When I tutored a sociology course I was horrified at the pessemistic and negative view of Australia and the West that I was to teach. Again, "oppression" and "inequality" is everywhere and that, for some reason, is an evil. No critical thinking was required unless a student took it upon themselves to be critical. I encouraged them to be wary of the political slant of the texts when reading them; and to bear in mind at all times that most positions have a preconceived political ideology underpinning them.

It's also a severe lack of critical thinking when they emphasize the damaging nature of negative stereotyping, but allow negative stereotypes to be made against whites, males, and Western civilization in general. Logic dictates that if negative stereotyping is bad, then that must apply across the board, not just to the groups one politically opposes. This is simple logic, but logic has no place if you have a destined political ideal in mind. (There's also the additional problem of how does one do away with stereotyping when it's embedded within the nature of language itself? Again, this wasn't an issue for the texts).

The Humanities will undo themselves. They have marginalized themselves against the mainstream to such an extent that they will fall into irrelevancy; as is already evident.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12468#215617

Aristocrat, great comment, i see the loony left humanities academics who infest this site have chosen not to comment as they have no answer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obTNwPJvOI8&feature=related Howler did you write the script for this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KkluiR5Rns&feature=related or this sequel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvARy0lBLE&feature=related this is another beauty.