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4/9/2014 1:34:39 PM
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What is insulting about it? Many join the military as a means to pay for college.
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The attitude behind it, the generalization, and you know, the casualization of heroes who give their lives for their country. Or maybe I'm wrong. Naaaaah.
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I don't get it. Soldiers risk their lives, right? Many people enlist to pay for college. So, many people risk their lives to pay for college. Still don't see the why this is an insult.
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Trivialization. She's trivializing and generalizing.
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You'll have to explain. A college degree is a good thing. People knowing that and joining the military as a path to get that degree speaks to their character, it doesn't insult it. If anything, it seems to be making a negative statement about tuition prices, not soldiers.
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She compared the military to the hunger games. Except, you know, the mortality right isn't 96%. She's insulting the system, the military... Even poor people. "Most poor people" Its kind of like a straw man, except... Not really Ana argument. She's over exaggerating everything. It IS insulting and degrading, because none of it is true. Sure SOME people join the military to get through college, but to make such a sweeping generalization is ignorant and idiotic.
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Again, I don't see how saying they join the military to go to college is in any way insulting. How would one turn paying for a college degree into an insult? "HAHA you came from a poor family and used the military to improve your life and that of your future offspring?" I'm really not seeing the burn there. I still think shes making fun of tuition costs, not soldiers.
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You're interpretation is different, obviously.
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Edited by Obi Wan Stevobi: 4/9/2014 2:52:03 PMThen explain to me how it can be interpreted to be insulting the military? So far, you mention that she is generalizing and not statistically accurate. That is true, but no reason to be upset. I'm still missing the part when any of the generalization or statistical inaccuracy could be aimed at the military in an insulting manner.
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She says the whole system is like the hunger games. The military is not the hunger games in any shape way or form. They don't force people to be a part of it. Its not a social injustice. Its all the hidden meanings in her words that are bad. Honestly, I think your bias is preventing you from seeing these undertones.
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Obviously the military isn't exactly like the Hunger games. But there has to be some reason other than factual accuracy that makes this statement offensive. I could say "Everyone in the military is a good person." Would that make you mad because it generalizes and is not factually accurate? My concern is what point is the exaggeration trying to drive home? Is she actually trying to say that the military is the same as the hunger games, or is she trying to say that people will make extreme sacrifices to pay for a degree?
