Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Shocker: our professors are socialist bigots.

72% liberal, 13% conservative. This is the faculty disparity on college campuses according to a right-leaning policy group. Even granting a slight righward skew on the polling, this shocking number should shock very few people who have ever been to school of any kind, kindergarten on.

Our teachers are commies, let's face it.

The only counter that the representative for the American Association of University Professors can conjure is basically that there is no evidence that this is effecting (or affecting... please explain that one to me. I learned about Marxism, but not spelling/grammer) the policies of the institutions or the teaching content of the professors.

Apparently that person has never been to school before.

For those of us who have actually attended the grand institutions of higher learning that lead to an ironic lifetime of indentured servitutde to loaning institutions, we need no proof. Our professors OBSESS about racial and gender representation, but really couldn't be bothered about ideological representation. For those of us who have attended these institutions, whether we be liberal or conservative, we must all acknowledge that it is a rare professor who can sepparate his/her personal perspective from his/her teaching.

A grand example:

Larry Summers. The president (or whatever) of Harvard told a room full of intellectual cowards (the Harvard faculty)that there were three major hypotheses as to why women are so underrepresented in the sciences and that they should be investigated. Despite what the ignorant and frightened lemmings in the media tell you, he did NOT say that women were worse at the sciences than men (don't believe me? Good. Here is the transcript).

The leading lights of self-delusion stormed out of the room, and subsequently passed a vote of no-confidence against Mr. Summers. Mr. Summers, being a good liberal, appointed by President Clinton to be Treasury Secretary when nobody competent could be found (okay, he wasn't so bad, but competence is barely even funny), dutifully cowered in a corner and passionately re-avowed himself to dogma, and to forceful ignorance, and agreed that his desire to increase knowledge about the root causes of the under-representation was inappropriate.

Where is the outrage over the fact that over 80% of the faculties in Political Science self-identify as liberals? Will we see Jesse Jackson marching over that abomination? Will we have the EEOC investigating that one? I'm gonna go ahead and not hold my breath.

The truth of the matter is that in academia, and many areas of the media, conservative thought is considered not to be a valuable alternative point of view, but a disease, an affliction of chronic ignorance.

For those who think that's correct, Rush Limbaugh thinks your point of view is based on delusion, and an ignorance of history. Can't have one without the other.

If you say "tolerance", mean it.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

you should use "affecting" in the sentence above. Generally, "affect" is used as a verb (as i understand it), and "effect" is a noun. Though, i think you can "effect" change. That's the only counter-example i can think of...

al

7:29 PM  

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