S*%t Happens, Then You Knit

an educational graphic about critical thinking for tumnblr

“If you really want to be a critical reader, it turns out you have to step back one step further, and ask not just whether the author is telling the truth, but why he’s writing about this subject at all.“

And a quick check for double standards: “who, or what, is the speaker not applying this principle to?”

Because these questions are equally indispensible when YOU are the author of the script, the book, the story, the speech.

Liana Finck in The New Yorker (July, 2018)

In just one six-week period, some 2,000 children were separated from their families, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Thousands are being held in makeshift shelters. The U.N. human rights chief called the policy “government-sanctioned child abuse.”