- Framed properly, even boundary-breaking comic sketches can be handled by students. Beyond the obvious Catholic and Spanish stereotyping, we have crime and punishment being sent up.
- The actual Inquisition and its type of bizarre logic–not “fear and surprise,” but heroic punishment and the Malleus Maleficarum–speak to a tendency to find the worst in people. While nobody may expect them, the Inquisition finds guilt, finds what it is looking for. . .
- The other obvious idea in classrooms is that, nowadays more than ever, we only research what we are already looking for. This is a huge problem I encounter every unit as a composition professor. This sketch famously sends confirmation bias and illustrates the engaging Dunning-Kruger Effect.