Reply To: Brainwashing in graduate school

Yeah, but I’m tayning that the subtlety of the brainwashing makes it more insidious and invidious and effective. (And affective).

Imagine, that the professor gives an example of a study of doctors and how efficient they are, and, instead of her saying that it was measured in how many appendectomies they can do, she says it was measured in how many abortions they can do. She is getting you used to the idea that abortions are normal without saying it, so your mind doesn’t even object.

See, I just even convinced you that the professor was a she. Even though most professor are a he. Or even though you have no idea if they are or aren’t. Which is accurate about me as well.