Thursday, March 29, 2018

Teaching College Students Be Like...



'So Stanley Milgram brought in subjects and assigned one to be the "teacher", and one to be... (expectant look at class)'
'Killed!'
'No...the "learner"; remember what we read in chapter twelve. But, unbeknownst to the "teachers", they were the only...'
'Gays?'
'Umm...no; they were the only true subjects; everyone else was a confederate'
'They were all gay?'
'No. No one was gay.'
'When did people start being gay, then?'
'I'm sure some of the subjects were gay, there have *always* been gay people, but being gay has nothing to do with Milgram's experiments'
'But what about the people who were killed?'
'No people were actually killed; at one point, the "learner" stopped responding, and there was the insinuation that he had died, or gone unconscious, but he was really....'
'Gay?'
'Look, we've been over this.'