Last Thursday's column "Make up your own mind about politics" inspired me.
Up until now, talk radio, Faux News and Dove World Outreach Center have been controlling my ideals because I've been too afraid to speak out.
Bryan Griffin changed all that.
I will no longer accept uber-conservative, we-hate-everyone-so-it's-not-discrimination beliefs any longer.
I will finally speak my mind and not let my fear of war-mongering talk show hosts stop me.
I will stand up for my commie-pinko friends out there (if you exist).
It's tough to be a Stalin-loving commie when all your history professors insist on pushing their capitalistic bias on you by only teaching the bad side of the Soviet Union. (Forget Russian literature, why don't we have a class dedicated to 1970s Russian hockey?)
And it's not like I, as a self-professed pinko lover, would want to open my mind to an opposing viewpoint in the classroom. Heavens no.
That would be the equivalent of making an American watch the USA vs. Algeria match, only to find that soccer may not be the world's dullest sport (congratulations curling, that title now belongs to you).
This is why I want to urge my fellow UF students to speak my mind.
Don't be afraid to let me brainwash you into only agreeing with what I say and then calling it free speech.
As Griffin says, professors only live in a world of learning and an "ideological world of paper-applicable theory."
Don't let their book learnin' influence you. Instead, let your 18 to 22 years of experience living at home and maybe having a minimum wage job be the sole source of your political beliefs.
Or, if you really want to be a good communist like me, join a Russian factory for a few five-year plans that will put you on the fast track to success. You can only learn by rejecting academia's blatant anti-communist bias.
Thank you, Bryan Griffin. If it weren't for you, I never would've had the courage to write that load of Bolshevik.
Andrew Pantazi is a journalism senior.
