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talkingham says:
Yeah, nothing is stopping conservatives from becoming college professors other than the really low pay scales at most liberal arts colleges which just don't fit the greed needs of most of the so-called neo-conservatives I know.

This stupid argument is like saying its a real problem that peope in the military have a tendency to be militaristic. Gee what a surprise that there is a majority of "liberals" in liberals arts programs in the arts and sciences.



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zorlacskates says:
why don't we try and purge business and law schools of conservatism? why doesn't anybody cry about that? and prcdr, if only academia had anything to do with communism. low pay, no health-coverage, long hours and the growing threat of some young republican trying to get you fired because of something he/she misunderstood. yea, it's just heaven working at a public university. and if your politics are so overt in your writing, maybe your writing just sucks.
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prcdr says:
The idea that Liberals tend to become professors because they are "smarter" and more "open minded" is abusurd. Liberals are not any smarter or more open minded than conservatives.

It has been my experience in college that many Liberal professors are less open minded or fair. I personally have had liberal professors try to grade my work lower because they didn't agree with my conservative perspective, not because of my methodology or my writing style. In the end it took the threat of taking the issue before the Department Chair to get "fair" treatment.

I have heard the argument that one reason for the higher number of liberals in academia is that many of their concepts only work in the academic setting not in reality (communism). Another argument for the lack of conservatives in academia is that they are actually out in the real world WORKING.
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Razzl says:
What irks the conservatives so much is the fact that we don't live in a parallel universe: the attitudes and world-views that we call conservatism are fundamentally hostile to what universities do, ergo conservatives will always be in the minority among university faculties. Making discoveries that force people to reasses settled beliefs, pointing out unfairness in the current social order, and teaching young people how to question authority are not only the tools of the academic enterprise; they are the antidote to conservatism.

We know full well that the Weekly Standard and its conservative patrons hate universities because they can never own or dominate them, and that universities have been the engine for dismantling their world view in the political arena. But the rest of the public should rest easy knowing that there's at least one set of institutions fighting for their rights that the big money can't buy...
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processor2 says:
Posted yesterday:

We need to promote diversity of ideas in universities by hiring more conservative teachers, and end the MONOPOLY of liberalism on college campus's.

Unfortunately, diversity of ideas terrifies liberals. Just ask Rush Limbaugh how tolerant liberals are to his alternative ideas

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LIBERAL RESPONSES TO MY POST

processor2, you crack me up! Rush Limbaugh? You've got to be kidding!
Posted by WOGERWABBIT at 07:22 PM : Apr 08, 2007

Rush Limpbutt.... alternative ideas!!!
DAM THAT'S FUNNY!!
Posted by DALLISON7 at 07:42 PM : Apr 08, 2007


THANK YOU BOTH, DALLISON7 & WOGERWABBIT, FOR PROVING MY POINT

Too easy, way too easy

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briannorwood says:
Yes. Most college campuses are dominated by liberals. Guess what...there's a good reason for this. Liberals are smart.

If I were a Republican, I would stop broadcasting the fact that the more educated one is, the more liberal thinking one becomes. It sort of cements the idea that being a conservative means that you're standing at the shallow end of the gene pool!
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sankekorafi says:
Wait a minute... are we talking about extending affirmative action to include political opinions of professors now? Admittedly I'm not in humanities and I have been subjected to some interesting liberal tangents in the last couple of years (with comments and grumbling from my conservative peers, and sometimes even myself) but shouldn't we be more conserned with the quality of professors than their opinions? It is more important that we concentrate on making sure that students can challenge the professor's opinion with good debate skills in these situations than that we make sure there are more professors that are conservative.
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bluestardad says:
WEEKLY STANDARD YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY!

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When American School kids all have school supplies then we will send money to the Middle East!

Write AIPAC as they brag about buying your Elected Representatives while American soldiers are being killed!

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dallison7 says:
Then she proceeded down a path of explaining how General Motors is killing the country because it wouldn't produce an electric car - they had all the technology bought and it would save all this oil....(in a history class!)

Her story was just an urban myth. At the time, I was working on the initial prototypes for a mass produced electric vehicle and it had several fundamental flaws.
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Her story may very well have been 'just an urban myth' as you say. But it you think our government has not allowed corporate America to prop up and maintain our 'fossil fuel' mentality you are confused.

Try to imagine what the world might look like now if our government had pursued alternative energy sources the way they lust for new and more destructive weapons.
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nathanealy says:
If you automatically assume someone is bigoted or ignorant just because they are conservative, doesn't that make you an intolerant, closed minded bigot?

When you look at it that way, all you liberals are looking pretty conservative.
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