Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement

Do conservatives choose not to go into academia or are they just not getting hired? Either way it is bad for the students and bad for the country. Perhaps this calls for more affirmative action. J/K

By all means....let's help poor conservative children get an education
 
Do conservatives choose not to go into academia or are they just not getting hired? Either way it is bad for the students and bad for the country. Perhaps this calls for more affirmative action. J/K

By all means....let's help poor conservative children get an education

More Obama songs in grade schools?

Maybe you guys could cheat on the tests for them too..............
 
You, my dear, are one of the most stupid here. Really, on a level with bigrenbc and Bfrgn.

. Other studies reveal that 5 percent to 7 percent of faculty openly identify as Republicans

Damn.....sounds like the same numbers as Republican Scientists

What the hell do Republicans major in?

I see that you're another liberal who can't read studies. I was hoping it was just rdean... imagine how shocked I am to discover it's not. Stupidity clearly has spread throughout the herd.
 
More than a third of the respondents said they would discriminate against the conservative candidate.
Good.

"Conservative", by definition, is someone who favours doing things as they are or as they were. If someone is professing to be that way, why would anyone think they would be a good fit in Academia? In Academia, the focus is on doing things in a new way or experimental way.
In Academia, the focus is on doing things the liberal way.
 
more than a third of the respondents said they would discriminate against the conservative candidate.
good.

"conservative", by definition, is someone who favours doing things as they are or as they were. If someone is professing to be that way, why would anyone think they would be a good fit in academia? In academia, the focus is on doing things in a new way or experimental way.
in academia, the focus is on doing things the liberal way.

just another group living off of the tax payer dime.
 
Isn't it the liberals that claim they are so tolerant of others and their opinions? It's the ones that claim tolerance the most, seem the least tolerant.

Yes, there are liberals that say that, but there are Conservatives that say that too.

I think most people at least claim to be tolerant of others, and most probably are.

It's a proud claim from the left that we hear constantly.... the "big tent". Your "big tent" is shrinking.... dramatically. And the right wing tent... that's getting bigger... and bigger... and bigger. Scary, huh?
Nonsense. The left's Big Tent covers the entire political spectrum: From Stalinists on the far left to socialists on the far right.
 
good.

"conservative", by definition, is someone who favours doing things as they are or as they were. If someone is professing to be that way, why would anyone think they would be a good fit in academia? In academia, the focus is on doing things in a new way or experimental way.
in academia, the focus is on doing things the liberal way.

just another group living off of the tax payer dime.

Personally, I liked working for the university! They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector... they expect results!

-- Dr Ray Stantz, Ghostbusters
 
So, not one person here can tell us why it is discrimination if I chose the liberal over the conservative for a job,

if both were EQUALLY QUALIFIED.

And yet you'll call it discrimination. That is irrational.
 
So, not one person here can tell us why it is discrimination if I chose the liberal over the conservative for a job,

if both were EQUALLY QUALIFIED.

And yet you'll call it discrimination. That is irrational.

If both candidates are equally qualified, I have no problem with the liberal doing the hiring displaying his fear of other viewpoints and protecting the insular hive.
 
It’s not every day that left-leaning academics admit that they would discriminate against a minority.

But that was what they did in a peer-reviewed study of political diversity in the field of social psychology, which will be published in the September edition of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Psychologists Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, based at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, surveyed a roughly representative sample of academics and scholars in social psychology and found that “In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues.”

A 2007 report by sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons found that 80 percent of psychology professors at elite and non-elite universities are Democrats. Other studies reveal that 5 percent to 7 percent of faculty openly identify as Republicans. By contrast, about 20 percent of the general population are liberal and 40 percent are conservative.
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they'd discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement - Washington Times

Not surprising at all, but I'm glad it's finally in the open. The Kool Aid drinkers admit they are drinking Hatorade.

Doesn't count, they have to protect the children.
 
Same here squeeze. There are plenty of Republicans in my school but we don't advertise esp. since Christie's war on the NJEA.

But how many times on this board have libs tried to argue that colleges are not all left leaning and that diversity of opinion was welcomed? It's all bullshit.

The more they try to argue how tolerant they are, the more they expose their bigotry.

Well, when you try to parade Creationism as science, you're kinda going beyond "diversity of opinion."
 
Same here squeeze. There are plenty of Republicans in my school but we don't advertise esp. since Christie's war on the NJEA.

But how many times on this board have libs tried to argue that colleges are not all left leaning and that diversity of opinion was welcomed? It's all bullshit.

The more they try to argue how tolerant they are, the more they expose their bigotry.

i feel I'm fighting a war with my fellow republicans that blame underperforming students on unions and "bad teachers"

I work in a high school. By the time they get to us they have had a dozen or more teachers. Do you mean to tell me that they were / are all bad teachers?

Were they all bad teachers? Doesn't really matter, does it? All that matters is that the bad teachers are the ones that are having the greatest impact. The more teachers there are, the more bad teachers there are. We would be better off cutting teacher staffing in half and doubling the pay of teachers in order to get a few really good teachers than we are by simply continuing the demonstrably flawed policy of cutting class size.
 
Same here squeeze. There are plenty of Republicans in my school but we don't advertise esp. since Christie's war on the NJEA.

But how many times on this board have libs tried to argue that colleges are not all left leaning and that diversity of opinion was welcomed? It's all bullshit.

The more they try to argue how tolerant they are, the more they expose their bigotry.

"Beyond their findings on discrimination, the pair determined that while conservatives are minorities in their field, they are not statistically negligible: About 40 percent of respondents identified themselves as moderate or conservative on economic issues, while 30 percent did so on foreign policy issues. The widest divide occurs on social issues, the contested terrain in the culture wars shaking the academy. On these contentious issues, 90 percent identified as liberal and only 4 percent as conservative".

The problem within this study and the use of politically charged labels in general is people are complicated and most do not easily fit into cookie cutter categories as the paragraph taken from the The Washington Times notes.

IMO only those on the fringe of the two major political parties are pure "conservative" or pure "liberal" and many of those are little different than the radical chic of the early 1970's. In other words they parrot what they beleive are the fundamentals necessary to be included in the club, yet have never put their beliefs to critical examination.

In my opinion, you are part of the extreme left, so your position is highly suspect. If you want to be credible when you state things like this you need to start proving you apply them everywhere, not just say them when your side is caught with their pants down.
 
No, that would be racist. Different... not sure how but it just is. Liberal and 'tolerance' - two words that no longer sit comfortably side by side.

Generalizing statement is generalizing. :thup:

There are intolerant piss-ants on both sides.

Isn't it the liberals that claim they are so tolerant of others and their opinions? It's the ones that claim tolerance the most, seem the least tolerant.

So, your argument is that conservatives disclaim being tolerant of others opinions. Good to know.
 
One question, according to the researchers, “asked whether, in choosing between two equally qualified job candidates for one job opening, they would be inclined to vote for the more liberal candidate (i.e., over the conservative).”

That's from the article.

Question:

If the premise is that the two candidates were EQUALLY QUALIFIED, how can it be discrimination if you chose the more liberal candidate, or, for that matter, chose the more conservative candidate?

From the common sense side, why should it matter what the political views of a candidate is? If the question showed that, given equal qualifications, they would be more likely to hire the white candidate wouldn't you call that discrimination?
 
It’s not every day that left-leaning academics admit that they would discriminate against a minority.

But that was what they did in a peer-reviewed study of political diversity in the field of social psychology, which will be published in the September edition of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Psychologists Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, based at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, surveyed a roughly representative sample of academics and scholars in social psychology and found that “In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues.”

A 2007 report by sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons found that 80 percent of psychology professors at elite and non-elite universities are Democrats. Other studies reveal that 5 percent to 7 percent of faculty openly identify as Republicans. By contrast, about 20 percent of the general population are liberal and 40 percent are conservative.
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they'd discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement - Washington Times

Not surprising at all, but I'm glad it's finally in the open. The Kool Aid drinkers admit they are drinking Hatorade.
They also abuse conservative students.

I saw one of them at a college crucify a young lady whose paper was about her father's fight in Vietnam, where he died, as being her incentive to learn about the Constitution. After he beat her up with words in front of the class, she left school. He deducted 10 points off Conservative student's final grades because they didn't "come around."

If you think that is bad, the sociology professor was even worse. He used other students to go after conservative students.

What a bunch of crawling rats fill our universities and junior colleges.

We need to turn social development and history back over to military leaders.
 
More than a third of the respondents said they would discriminate against the conservative candidate.
Good.

"Conservative", by definition, is someone who favours doing things as they are or as they were. If someone is professing to be that way, why would anyone think they would be a good fit in Academia? In Academia, the focus is on doing things in a new way or experimental way.

If we apply that definition to the world today, conservatives would be the people who are fighting to keep unions in power in schools for no other reason than that is the way it is, and liberals would be the people fighting to give parents choices. I guess that makes you a conservative, can I have liberal back?
 

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