Critical Thinking Has Been Hijacked: How
the Left Quietly Rewired the Way We Teach Reason
Posted By: Hazymac, 10/6/2025 11:08:43 AM
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’” Alice said. (Snip) In the past, I’ve talked about the left's deliberate shift of language, but I’ve never mentioned the foundational shift I’m going to talk about now. This one is different. It doesn’t just twist one word or one idea — it changes the ground we stand on. This shift attacks logic itself. It strikes at the roots of reasoning, the process by which we decide what is true. It happened quietly and almost no one saw it occur. The term critical thinking has been redefined. For decades, parents were told schools would teach their children to “think critically.”
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