Why Professors are Predominantly ‘leftist.’

[boedicca]

I already posted the study, bub.

Try reading for comprehension and retention.

 

[geauxtohell]

Universities and Government are the major employers of "Social Scientists," and almost all social science supports socialist POV.

That's a statement that just begs for quantification.

Really?


I would hope it was self evident.

Do you think GM employs as many MS Anthropologists as Mechanical Engineers?

Do you think GE employs BA Ed instead of Electrical Engineers?

Not the part about the utility of a social science degree, the part about the political leaning of social scientists.

Boedicca covered you.

 

[Truthmatters]

Education makes people more liberal and that is just a fact.

Knowing MORE makes people more understanding of other human beings.

Republicans just hate that shit

 

[geauxtohell]

I already posted the study, bub.

Try reading for comprehension and retention.

I commented on your study. You then made further made a statement that the numbers were skewed because it included community colleges, etc.

That begs for quantification.

Or not, but I am not going to accept your opinion on the matter as fiat truth.

 

[Big Fitz]

interesting. In all the schools I went to in the Twin Cities, I think only one did not have a shrine to Obama near the entrance of the school. I constantly see parking lots full of teacher's cars with Obama, Wellstone! (who's still dead) and Franken bumperstickers in them, even today.

Heaven forbid teachers exercise their first amendment rights!

What a bunch of fucking commies!

I'm not the one maintaining that educators are overwhelmingly leftist. They don't have a right to marinate kids in their politics though. Like the children, their right to free speech ended at the school house door.

 

[Big Fitz]

Education makes people more liberal and that is just a fact.

Knowing MORE makes people more understanding of other human beings.

Republicans just hate that shit

No, leftist educators make people more liberal becauuse they have a captive audience and history of abusing their position.

Today, 2+2= bush lied

 

[geauxtohell]

interesting. In all the schools I went to in the Twin Cities, I think only one did not have a shrine to Obama near the entrance of the school. I constantly see parking lots full of teacher's cars with Obama, Wellstone! (who's still dead) and Franken bumperstickers in them, even today.

Heaven forbid teachers exercise their first amendment rights!

What a bunch of fucking commies!

I'm not the one maintaining that educators are overwhelmingly leftist. They don't have a right to marinate kids in their politics though. Like the children, their right to free speech ended at the school house door.

Having a bumper sticker on your car =/= "marinating kids in their politics".

Thought I agree with you that teachers shouldn't bring their personal politics into the classroom.

 

[Samson]

I already posted the study, bub.

Try reading for comprehension and retention.

I commented on your study. You then made further made a statement that the numbers were skewed because it included community colleges, etc.

That begs for quantification.

Or not, but I am not going to accept your opinion on the matter as fiat truth.

Nor do you accept the study, Boe sited.

Nor do you accept common knowledge, (where do you imagine PhD Sociology work?)

I'm comforted, though, in not having expended much energy with you.

 

[geauxtohell]

I already posted the study, bub.

Try reading for comprehension and retention.

I commented on your study. You then made further made a statement that the numbers were skewed because it included community colleges, etc.

That begs for quantification.

Or not, but I am not going to accept your opinion on the matter as fiat truth.

Nor do you accept the study, Boe sited.

Nor do you accept common knowledge, (where do you imagine PhD Sociology work?)

I'm comforted, though, in not having expended much energy with you.

WTF are you talking about? I said the study backs up your point.

I also pointed out that, by virtue of the study, 1/2 of professors are either moderate or conservative versus the 1/2 that is liberal.

 

[Oddball]

At my sons HIGH SCHOOL there was a government teacher who during an election year refused to allow anything on the walls to show anything but Bush.

Some of these kids were old enough to vote and this teacher allowed no one to say ANYTHING against Bush.

interesting. In all the schools I went to in the Twin Cities, I think only one did not have a shrine to Obama near the entrance of the school. I constantly see parking lots full of teacher's cars with Obama, Wellstone! (who's still dead) and Franken bumperstickers in them, even today.

And the one school I can't recall seeing anything pro Obama was because nothing political was there.

I swear, Minnesnowta libs must screen who they sell their used cars to, for people who pledge not to rip the stupid Wellstone! stickers off of them.

 

[Oddball]

The long and the short of it is that academe is pretty much a country club, with screening criteria of a much more highly politicized nature.

What''s preventing the right-wingers from starting their own schools? Oh yeah, the market, where people want a real degree and not the meaningless crap Ken Ham received.

Well, they've always got "Hillsdale" or whatever. I find it hilarious that, with all the bitching about "liberal Universities" no single institution in this country that I can think of has adopted an official policy that supports "liberal political though". However, Hillsdale is specifically marketed as a "conservative alternative" and no liberal whines about it.

Probably because the reputation of universities like that and "Bob Jone University" is so bad.

I don't understand some conservative's animosity towards higher education.

How many Hillsdale and Bob Jones type colleges receive state funding?.....Zero.

It only follows that institutions supported by central control, confiscation and redistribution, and an overall collectivist ethos would have mostly faculty and staff who support and peddle that mindset.

 

[JakeStarkey]

What''s preventing the right-wingers from starting their own schools? Oh yeah, the market, where people want a real degree and not the meaningless crap Ken Ham received.

Well, they've always got "Hillsdale" or whatever. I find it hilarious that, with all the bitching about "liberal Universities" no single institution in this country that I can think of has adopted an official policy that supports "liberal political though". However, Hillsdale is specifically marketed as a "conservative alternative" and no liberal whines about it.

Probably because the reputation of universities like that and "Bob Jone University" is so bad.

I don't understand some conservative's animosity towards higher education.

How many Hillsdale and Bob Jones type colleges receive state funding?.....Zero.

It only follows that institutions supported by central control, confiscation and redistribution, and an overall collectivist ethos would have mostly faculty and staff who support and peddle that mindset.

How does that follow, son? Where is your data, where is your evidence, where is your analysis, where is your flipping mind? Fail.

 

[AllieBaba]

Get real, Jakey boy.

 

[Gadawg73]

The atmosphere at the typical liberal university is toxic and anti-American, thanks to the anti-American pieces of shit who hold sway there.

And you guys wonder why we don't take you seriously.

I got my undergrad degree at a "liberal" college from '97 to '01 and was on an ROTC scholarship. I had to wear a uniform at least one day a week to class and so forth. I never got any flak from my classmates or my professors.

Then, after I got out of the Army, I went back to undergrad to do my med-school pre-reqs and never witnessed or experienced any flak from my classmates or professors, though most of them knew I was a veteran and the war was highly unpopular.

Now I am in grad school and have yet to witness this "toxic anti-American" attitude you guys are so bent out of shape about.

I don't doubt that there are professors who inappropriately spout of their personal political views to a class, I doubt it's on par with the amount of bitching you guys do about it.

As an undergrad, with little exception all I took was math, chemistry, physics, and engineering classes. These profs and courses spent no time on social issues.

Then as a grad, I took education and business courses, and with little exception, there was almost always social commentary, often including an "anti-establishment" POV.

Not at the business school at GSU. Not once did I ever hear any social commentary in any business class.
How is there social commentary in accounting, finance and IT?

 

[Gadawg73]

Education makes people more liberal and that is just a fact.

Knowing MORE makes people more understanding of other human beings.

Republicans just hate that shit

"there are death panels in the health care bill" and "fags wanting to get married will destroy the sanctity of marriage" is always believed by the uneducated.

 

[Gadawg73]

What''s preventing the right-wingers from starting their own schools? Oh yeah, the market, where people want a real degree and not the meaningless crap Ken Ham received.

Well, they've always got "Hillsdale" or whatever. I find it hilarious that, with all the bitching about "liberal Universities" no single institution in this country that I can think of has adopted an official policy that supports "liberal political though". However, Hillsdale is specifically marketed as a "conservative alternative" and no liberal whines about it.

Probably because the reputation of universities like that and "Bob Jone University" is so bad.

I don't understand some conservative's animosity towards higher education.

How many Hillsdale and Bob Jones type colleges receive state funding?.....Zero.

It only follows that institutions supported by central control, confiscation and redistribution, and an overall collectivist ethos would have mostly faculty and staff who support and peddle that mindset.

Bob Jones and Hillsdale both have financial aid departments. Their students receive taxpayer paid for loans and grants just like any other college and university.
Throw in their tax exempt status as a religion and they are geting over more than all the others.

 

[AllieBaba]

Education makes people more liberal and that is just a fact.

Knowing MORE makes people more understanding of other human beings.

Republicans just hate that shit

"there are death panels in the health care bill" and "fags wanting to get married will destroy the sanctity of marriage" is always believed by the uneducated.

Yeah, take that attitude over to your friends who say that incest should be legal because anyone should be able to marry anyone they want.

And there are death panels in the health care bill. Obama and his hand-picked socialist pigs determining what is covered and what isn't. That's a death panel.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Our educational system has been systematically sabotaged by Progressives. Look at how many HS students can't identify 3 Founding Fathers, can't tell us when the War of 1812 was fought and think that the American Revolution was to kill Indians.

Progressives NEED, desperately need uneducated people totally beholden to the State for their very existence.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Well, they've always got "Hillsdale" or whatever. I find it hilarious that, with all the bitching about "liberal Universities" no single institution in this country that I can think of has adopted an official policy that supports "liberal political though". However, Hillsdale is specifically marketed as a "conservative alternative" and no liberal whines about it.

Probably because the reputation of universities like that and "Bob Jone University" is so bad.

I don't understand some conservative's animosity towards higher education.

How many Hillsdale and Bob Jones type colleges receive state funding?.....Zero.

It only follows that institutions supported by central control, confiscation and redistribution, and an overall collectivist ethos would have mostly faculty and staff who support and peddle that mindset.

Bob Jones and Hillsdale both have financial aid departments. Their students receive taxpayer paid for loans and grants just like any other college and university.
Throw in their tax exempt status as a religion and they are geting over more than all the others.

Excellent rebuttal of another dude-dude ism.

 

[Oddball]

Well, they've always got "Hillsdale" or whatever. I find it hilarious that, with all the bitching about "liberal Universities" no single institution in this country that I can think of has adopted an official policy that supports "liberal political though". However, Hillsdale is specifically marketed as a "conservative alternative" and no liberal whines about it.

Probably because the reputation of universities like that and "Bob Jone University" is so bad.

I don't understand some conservative's animosity towards higher education.

How many Hillsdale and Bob Jones type colleges receive state funding?.....Zero.

It only follows that institutions supported by central control, confiscation and redistribution, and an overall collectivist ethos would have mostly faculty and staff who support and peddle that mindset.

Bob Jones and Hillsdale both have financial aid departments. Their students receive taxpayer paid for loans and grants just like any other college and university.
Throw in their tax exempt status as a religion and they are geting over more than all the others.

Wrong-o!

In the 1970s, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare insisted that Hillsdale start counting students by race and sex or lose federal loans for students.

Hillsdale’s charter declares the college open to students regardless of nation, color or sex. In 1956, Hillsdale refused to play in the Tangerine Bowl because it wouldn’t allow its black players on the field.

Hillsdale decided not to take any federal funds or the strings attached. No student loans, no Pell grants – nothing.

Hillsdale versus Harvard | Tulsa Beacon