Posted on 08/30/2006 4:02:01 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Professor William Woodward describes the politics of his youth as "middle of the road."
Woodward says he grew up a "mainstream" Protestant in a Republican household. He was not, he said, a born protester. When some Vietnam War opponents in his generation burned their draft cards or fled to Canada, Woodward chose instead to join the Peace Corps.
Like President Bush, however, Woodward says his eyes were opened on Sept. 11.
"After 2001," he said, "I recognized what I thought was a government conspiracy, and so I became more active in upholding the truth and seeking the truth."
A tenured psychology professor at the University of New Hampshire, Woodward has drawn criticism for his theory that the U.S. government may have orchestrated the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Sen. Judd Gregg called Woodward's view "generally an affront to the sensibility of most all Americans," and Gov. John Lynch called on the University System Board of Trustees to review his qualifications.
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Most of the state's not this looney by the way. I went back to UHN to finish up my BA in english three years ago (at age 42) and nobody gave me a hard time for being a conservative. I was pleasantly suprised.
Naw, leave him be.
Colleges need nut cases so that students can learn from him.
The former president of my alma mater said something to the effect that,
"the only real value of a liberal arts education is that it allows you to recognize bullshit when you hear it,"
or something to that effect.
That wouldn't be such a bad outcome for four years of study, IMHO.
Colleges need to keep some wacky professors just so students can become familiar with their fatuous arguments.
That is the pathology of the left. They lay claim to all noble ideals, refuse to consider that those ideals might be contradictory, insist that they are the sole proprietors of all the ideals they claim and that anyone who disagrees with them is in opposition to those ideals. It's a bulletproof defense that is entirely fraudulent.
It is difficult for such people to credit that radical Muslims took over aircraft and flew them into buildings to murder the people in both because to do so would lead to the conclusion that something forceful must be done about it, which conflicts with their pacifist ideals. The only way out is simple denial, the construction of a web of fiction that allows them to retain those ideals by blaming someone who it is acceptable to hate. And who won't fight back. It is ironic that a psychology professor should be the victim of this desperate denial of reality instead of its observer, but it isn't uncommon.
Conservative upbringing establishes bonafides for a liberal, or so the press thinks.
Yes, see he was once sane, so he must still be sane. He just changed with the times, that's all.
Or so the liberal groupthink goes. Truly, they just have a stock of these things they trot out every few days or so. Propaganda works best if you keep it up, slow, steady, only slightly irritating, only slightly loony.
The dead giveaway of course was admitting he was Protestant. That doesn't help keep you on the straight and narrow.
My wife and I and many other family members are UNH alumni. We stopped giving them money quite some time ago...probably about the time they started having "gay days", or whatever it was called, and this only makes it easier not to make any further donations.
This fellow may be a good example of a bad example but one less bad example there in Durham would definitely be a good thing. I'm sure there are plenty of others anyway.
Oh no doubt. I was very nervous going back, I had read all the college PC horror stories and I knew I was going to be right in the belly of the humanities beast. But I didn't have a hard time at all. Sure there are lefty wack-jobs at UNH, I just dont think there are as many as there are in other schools.
But that's STILL too many.
All you folks sending your kids to college. This is what your hard earned money is paying for. This is what your kids are going to learn. This is what is going to shape the minds of your children as they venture into the world.
How much of a chance do you think they will have after being indoctrinated by scum like this?
/rant
Back in '94, we went back for our 25th reunion. We walked around campus and wondered how we had ever felt at home there for 4 years. We went into Snively Arena where the big banquet was being held. There were 4 couples there at a table for the class of '69. We didn't know any of them.
The only real reason we went at all was because there was a performance of 1776 at the Johnson Theater. That was enjoyable but not really worth the trip.
And it's not just the ones with kids in college. As a productive, tax-paying resident of New Hampshire, I am also helping to pay for this trash whether I like it or not.
I don't see anything in the story about "public tax dollars." He's a Psych prof at UNH and he has some odd opinions, but those are two separate things.
I know. Never had kids myself, just spent my life paying for everyone elses.
So, you believe public employees don't have a right to voice opinions you don't like? I could probably find an atheist or two to object to their tax money's going to support professing Christians.
The guy either has an argument or he doesn't. Let him try to make it.
He wants to spout off nonsense and bullsh*t? -- Fine by me, but not with public tax dollars.
I don't see anything in the story about "public tax dollars." He's a Psych prof at UNH and he has some odd opinions, but those are two separate things.
Not two seperate things! He wants to spout his nonsense on the public dime! He wants to be able to teach his nonsense!
Gosh, that sounds awful familiar. I hear almost those exact words from lieburralls all the time. Didn't think I'd have to put up with that crap on FR.
Such bozos are truly psychotic - their minds find reality too painful to deal with and they block it all out - if they had to admit that there are such evil Islamo-Nazis who want to slaughter us all then they might have to support doing something about it..... so much easier to pretend it's all a neo-con plot and then the conspiracy-libs can keep sucking their thumbs and joining in their Daily Kos-freaks circle jerks.
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