Finally, Some News! The Curious Incident of the Pioneer Carnival Debate

It was just today that I've had the most fun that I suppose I've had since summer ended and college began.

Our story begins with myself, Dylan, and my friend Andrew (a fellow Reagan Republican), walking to Gates Field House. And what happened today was epic. And how.

When the carnival (a huge set-up of booths for clubs and organizations that were recruiting) began, Dylan went to the DU Democrats to help out with recruitment for the Obama cult. Andrew and I waited for the College Republicans to show up, and they did. We registered. Everything was going fine and normal and swimmingly when all of a sudden, something catches Andrew's eye.

The most ironic thing I've seen in ages, and it wasn't even on the Internet.

The NARAL Pro-Choice America booth was set up right next to a booth offering free hangers.

*snicker*

The feminist movement has long regarded the clothes hanger as a symbol of injustice toward women, stemming from back-alley abortions where a woman's life was at risk, because the abortionist performed the procedure a la clothes hanger, or some other shoddy form of equipment. Supposedly, this is due to the illegality of abortion. Now, to be fair, I acknowledge that this isn't an ideal circumstance, and it has been documented that an abortion ban causes incidents like this to happen. However, also note that these cases were extremely rare, and death resulting from this was even rarer. Also, note that it still goes on today, even in countries without abortion bans.

Righto. Anyways, Andrew and I walk up and tell them about their unbeknownst yet precarious situation, to which they refused to move, I assume because they were too lazy. We have this on video, maybe I'll post it. It's hilarious.

Now, we talked with them a bit about abortion, and they told us to leave. So we did. No problems.

However, that was just the beginning.

As we turned, we were confronted by some seemingly disgruntled pro-choice women, about 3 in all. So instead of ignoring them, we stood our ground. The conversation immediately turned to abortion, whereas we dismantled their arguments using some well-placed statistics and reports, and confronting them with questions that they refused to answer, which was most revealing.

But it didn't end there.

They wanted to argue about education, next. One girl used her experience with a friend who was a poorly-paid teacher to justify that all teachers are paid poorly. Talk about arguing from ignorance. Instead, we justified the use of vouchers rather than pouring more government money into the system, and we included abolishing the Department of Education (thanks, Ron Paul!). They were stunned at their own lack of logic, so they changed the subject again.

To the economy.

We went over a whole range of issues, defending supply-side (Reaganomics) economics the entire time. We found out they were socialists (I'd expect nothing less from hippies) and thought that Mussolini had "some really cool ideas". So we blasted that notion and refuted their assertion that a recession was going on. They had no idea what they were talking about. So then they called us "racists" for implying that the Democratic party was using minorities by keeping them government-dependent, a la affirmative action and welfare, things like that. We won when they left in disgust. Stupid hippies.

Dylan told me a bit later that one girl who had left the debate for a second had been going around telling other Democrats that we were "racists saying racist things" and needed to be pounced upon en masse. So there'd been conspiracy going on. That I'd been a little surprised to hear.

We encountered them quite some time afterward, apologizing for saying anything that they'd found offensive. But instead of being tolerant liberals, they cursed us out, calling us racists once again and saying, "why don't you go look up some more f**king statistics?" I laughed heartily, and called them fascists.

What? I got it in before they could.

Hiatus

So, it's come to this. Due to the massive amount of time I'm spending in college, there's no free time to blog. So, I'm going on hiatus for the next few days, unless something comes up. Sorry!