A Fields Guide to Morons

Writing in the Moonie Times, Suzanne Fields tells a story which is intended to show that young, persecuted college conservatives are actually smarter than their liberal professors. While the story sounds fictitious, given the stilted nature of the dialogue described, it ultimately demonstrates that Fields (and the student, if he exists) are themselves ignorant of history. Fields writes:

Another Cornell conservative had a "gut check" in the middle of a lecture in a course on rural sociology. When the professor observed that Cleopatra was an "African American," a shy sophomore Republican raised his hand. "I don't know as much as you do about rural sociology," he said. "But I can say with certainty that Cleopatra was not an African-American."

The startled professor asked him to explain.

"Cleopatra could not have been an African-American because at the time Cleopatra lived, America had not yet been discovered."

Bob Dylan's weatherman, like the professor, felt a gust of cool wind blow in from the right [What the fuck? -- R.A.].

What Fields and her clever little protege don't know is that "America" was discovered long before the time of Cleopatra. (Even some wingnuts admit this, while spinning for a Eurocentric view of pre-history.)

It takes a special breed of dumbass to reveal her own ignorance by claiming intellectual superiority.