1. Critical thinking requires grounding one’s beliefs in evidence rather than in emotion or desire, and learning how to search for and evaluate evidence that might contradict one’s initial hypothesis.  “Critical thinking requires grounding one’s beliefs in evidence rather than in emotion or desire, and learning how to search for and evaluate evidence that might contradict one’s initial hypothesis.” The two topics Im gonna discuss are the water buffalo and the camel incident. To start with the first, when a student saw a group of African American students in a group they made a statement that was called racial harassment. “Many scholars and pundits at the time could not see how the term water buffalo (a rough translation of a Hebrew insult for a thoughtless or rowdy person) was a racial slur against African Americans, and as a result, the case became international news.”When things like this happens it creates an environment where students art going to be comfortable where they live and go to school. So when this student who was “Israeli-born” student calls out a phrase like that its ones word against another students. but when they say the phrase and then learn the background of the saying and then who the student is then at that point your using evidence to make a verdict rather then choosing a side because its put together better. Then we have the camel incident or the “hump day” incident, this was a schools yearly tradition to bring in a camel to campus and allow students to come and see the unique animal. this was completely fine until a group of students came together to make a petition to remove the celebration due to animal cruelty. “an event called Hump Day, which would have allowed people to pet a camel, was abruptly canceled. Students had created a Facebook group where they protested the event for animal cruelty, for being a waste of money, and for being insensitive to people from the Middle East.” This impediments a students right to walk freely around campus. Although some people might not agree with this to be on a campus with all different types of of people there are a lot of this that can effect people and you wouldn’t even know. 

2. The author gives an opinion biased opinion I don’t agree with their statement of “anticipating that things will turn out badly” and feeling “convinced that your prediction is an already-established fact.” I think that everyone has their own views on these types of things. Some people will go weekly and want to know everything that is going on in another life or what’s going to happen to them in theirs. I do agree with her section on PTSD and how its been a big problem for people since around world war 1. I also believe that every one has a trigger that will make them angry or upset and if they can narrow down what the basic population percentage worries about the most then they can eliminate possible problems or feeling towards their students. but also some people trimmest are different or unique and things that some people don’t have, you cant eliminate a trigger but they can be limited.