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As an undergraduate majoring in Political Science I was exposed to a lot of liberal propaganda in many, many of my classrooms. One thing I was really looking forward to about studying International Finance is that numbers are concrete, and I figured, if anything, my professors should be more on the conservative side since finance seems to be based on logic. So I was a little bit dismayed when my Management of International Business class magically became Corporate Social Responsibility. And I was even more dismayed this afternoon when in my CSR class I was forced to watch a short video detailing the evils of WalMart. Apparently, WalMart is owned by the devil and the managers at WalMart like to torture small animals while they beat their employees into submission. Or something like that.

I'm sure the video wasn't totally full of crap. I'm sure that some of the accusations made about WalMart are valid. But I really resent being shown a one-sided video and being told that THIS is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's kind of insulting to be expected to eat up propaganda as though it were the gospel. I would have been just as insulted and annoyed if the professor had shown us a WalMart commercial and told us, "See! WalMart is wonderful and benevolent and doesn't care about profits, only its employees and customers! THIS VIDEO PROVES IT!"

After watching the video I had the same feeling I had after I watched Bowling for Columbine. Sure it made some good points but they were hard to swallow in light of the fact that the "documentary" was clearly one-sided propaganda.