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Dissenting voices are harder to find in academia today than they ever were in the former Soviet Union and I ought to know: I've covered both.
1 posted on 06/20/2016 7:28:51 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

Oh yeah….Liberals want everyone to “have the freedom to be who you really are”….unless you happen to be a conservative. What gold-plated hypocrites.


2 posted on 06/20/2016 7:32:44 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Academiadotorg
Like many Secret Trump voters won't say they are voting for to the liberals surrounding them?

One does not have to be a Mensa member to know painting a target on one's back is a bad idea...


3 posted on 06/20/2016 7:34:42 AM PDT by null and void (Hillary Milhouse Clinton: I'm not a c-c-c-crook! Crook! Yeah, that's the c-word I was looking for!)
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To: Academiadotorg

Stop hiding and start making noise.


4 posted on 06/20/2016 7:38:24 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Academiadotorg

My husband is a professor in a medical field at a major teaching institution. He kept silent about his political beliefs until he achieved tenure. During the election season eight years ago, a couple of the secretaries in his office corridor came to him for help. Some of the doctors were becoming a bit too vocal about their leftist political beliefs, actually against university policy, and we’re making it an uncomfortable work environment for others. They just needed him to step up to the leftist guys and remind them that they had crossed the line, and had created a bad work environment for everyone. He was more than happy to confront them. The conservatives in the department know who each other are and are now pretty open about discussing their politics.


5 posted on 06/20/2016 7:41:54 AM PDT by stayathomemom ( Read Shadow Men and The Progressive Virus by Dr. Anthony Napoleon)
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To: Academiadotorg

What a contrast. I remember when I was younger, the stereotype of a college professor was someone who was somewhat nerdy, was quiet, conservative in his demeanor and behavior. A college professor was thought to be stuffy and conservative back in the day.

The stuffy quiet college professor, wearing a sports jacket with patches on the elbows, is long gone.


7 posted on 06/20/2016 7:48:49 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I am a professor at a major land grant university in Kansas.

There are @ 50 tenured professors in our dept. Along with myself, there are probably 10 -15 who are firearms owners and lean to the right on most issues. There is probably a few more but I don’t actively seek out their opinions.

There is one professor who I know for sure is a leftie.

Granted, our dept is Agriculture - based.

MFO


8 posted on 06/20/2016 7:49:47 AM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: Academiadotorg

The operative word, of course, being “hiding” - Liberals in academia are at least as intolerant of thought freedom as those in politics.


9 posted on 06/20/2016 7:58:06 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: LS

Ping. I suspect you will find nothing surprising here.


10 posted on 06/20/2016 8:25:16 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I had dreams about 25 years ago of becoming a college professor in my field of work—nursing.

But I got disabused of that when I went for my master’s degree.The faculty were already crazy PC and this was in the early 90’s. I was still pretty left wing back then but it was like you couldn’t be PC enough. It was a terrible head game and I gradually realized there was no way I could make tenure short of selling my soul to this. So I finished my degree, my formal education, and any dreams of an academic career.

It was also the catalyst that began my conversion to conservatism. Since then I’ve seen the disease of PC metastasize to just about the whole of society.


11 posted on 06/20/2016 9:13:56 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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