[Cronos]

Not really news, but at least the pyschologists now see themselves in the mirror

[Cronos]

from the article “Dr. Haidt (pronounced height) told the audience that he had been corresponding with a couple of non-liberal graduate students in social psychology whose experiences reminded him of closeted gay students in the 1980s.”

[DrC]

I’m sure the OEO is going to jump right on the problem of blatant discrimination against conservatives in academia...

[paint_your_wagon]

Not really news, but at least the pyschologists now see themselves in the mirror

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True, but for for what good? Psychologists are the high priests of liberal lunacy. They tend to legitimize just about any type of deviant behavior while dismissing what we consider to be normal. Leftist depend on psychology to justify their own beliefs.

They are modern day phrenologists.

Oh, and they have a major influence on our educational system.

[Rashputin]

After laughing, I figured out that even if this guy has tenure he’s either one of those extremely rare folks truth as his goal or he’s terminally ill. Either way, it would be interesting to track his career before and after this paper.

[sphinx]

“Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation,” said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist. “But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among us by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate explanations.”

Money quote.

[originalbuckeye]

Psychologists/psychiatrists lost all credibility in the 70’s when they redefined homosexuality as a ‘variation on normal’. PC waaaaaay back then and we have been under assault ever since.

[nathanbedford]

The fields of psychology, sociology and anthropology have long attracted liberals, but they became more exclusive after the 1960s, according to Dr. Haidt. “The fight for civil rights and against racism became the sacred cause unifying the left throughout American society, and within the academy,” he said, arguing that this shared morality both “binds and blinds.”

I have argued Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics on these threads ad nauseam: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

It was the civil rights acts as much as the court packing scheme which distorted the American Constitution out of all its power of elasticity-regardless of how noble or merited the cause of civil rights. What it told the American body politic was that the American Constitution was no longer the sacred compact between people and government but a mere obstacle to be evaded, avoided, or disparaged until it became appropriate to deride its reading in the United States Congress. If it is okay to evade the Constitution to achieve the noble goals of civil rights, it must be okay as well to evade the Constitution in the cause of gay rights, women's rights, immigrants rights, or to defend a black occupant of the Oval Office.

Indeed, the present occupant of the Oval Office would not be there except as a guest were it not for the color of his skin. We see in that election the power of race to "bind and blind" not only the academic community but the fourth estate and, through these keepers of the information gate, the electorate at large.

The word "bind" has at least two meanings, one meaning, to tie together and the other, to tie shut. The invocation of race in America shuts down the debate and shuts down inquiry into the eligibility of Barack Obama, both constitutionally and politically, to be President of the United States.

[exDemMom]

From my experience, many psychologists choose the field because they have mental issues. Liberalism, by being rooted in emotion and the desire to eschew logic or rational thought, tends to appeal to the mentally imbalanced. So, is it any surprise that most psychologists are liberal?

[Altura Ct.]

And yet we continue to send our children into the indoctrination centers.

[RFEngineer]

“Not really news, but at least the pyschologists now see themselves in the mirror”

This guy is trying to be honest and introspective, but he can’t go the rest of the way.....Conservatives tend to be a bit brighter, harder working, and accomplished, hence their under-representation in the field of psychology.

That’s the real story, and the real reason why they are uncomfortable about it.

Psychology is for the lazy, and for those with no other option.

[Piranha]

So once again everyone is divided by Haidt speech. When will it end?

[mmercier]

I once dated a girl who paid a psychologist $150/hour because she had “intimacy issues”.

He laid her at the last session.

Problem solved.

She is still a loon, just more confused than before..

[mmercier]

I once dated a girl who paid a psychologist $150/hour because she had “intimacy issues”.

He laid her at the last session.

Problem solved.

She is still a loon, just more confused than before..