Louis CK to the Rescue

Just a note: This post has some political tone to it, but it's more about how Louis CK put it all in perspective.

I have a tendency to take poli-sci classes pretty seriously. I fully admit to often being the guy in class that you wish would shut up when questioning certain assertions by theorists in the readings. You know, it just seems like everyone around me has this tendency to embrace new social theories, and toss out the old ones because people like Locke or Hobbes or Rousseau because they were racists, or sexists, or unenlightened, or whatever. So I get pretty defensive of these guys, and tend to cut them breaks, perhaps in the hopes that my grandchildren will give me the same courtesy, ya know?

So this week, studying racial contract theory, I was told I suffer from a "consensual hallucination" because I am white, and unless I buy into reparations and affirmative action, I am essentially as bad as a slave trader. That kind of talk is a bit frustrating to me, because in one sense, I understand the point, but my disagreement with the point doesn't make me a racist. But my class pretty much views me as KKK now.

Thankfully, Louis CK helped me get the right perspective on this whole thing, and did it through humor. Anyone got some more Louis CK for me up in this piece?