Posted on 07/25/2016 9:20:37 AM PDT by Borges
Professors are at it again, demonstrating in public how little they understand the responsibilities and limits of their profession.
On Monday a group calling itself Historians Against Trump published an “Open Letter to the American People.” The purpose of the letter, the historians tell us, is to warn against “Donald J. Trump’s candidacy and the exceptional challenges it poses to civil society.” They suggest that they are uniquely qualified to issue this warning because they “have a professional obligation as historians to share an understanding of the past upon which a better future may be built.”
Or in other words: We’re historians and you’re not, and “historians understand the impact these phenomena have upon society’s most vulnerable.” Therefore we can’t keep silent, for “the lessons of history compel us to speak out against Trump.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Well this is one professional historian who supports Trump.
Trump is our voice. GTH, ya’ pathetic, professional students.
I spent a fair bit of time around the History Dept. as an undergrad. These guys were all having daily multiple orgasms over Howard Zinn.
yeah, Barry The Kenyan Idiot was also a “Professor”.
Snicker......
While this disciplinary experience qualifies them to ask and answer discipline-specific questions, it does not qualify them to be our leaders and guides as we prepare to exercise our franchise in a general election. Academic expertise is not a qualification for delivering political wisdom.
As a professor I took classes from is fond of declaring: "This isn't history. These are events. They don't turn into history until they're over."
Society hasn't been civil for a while. Trump supporters are those who accurately diagnose the causes of that incivility.
To say nothing about "Honest Abe."
ML/NJ
Right. Obama was also a “constitutional scholar.”
For the ivy tower types to consider:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/public-editor/liz-spayd-the-new-york-times-public-editor.html
Thomas Jefferson, that great genius Author of "the Declaration of Independence" and champion of the rights of man also made a not-so-glowing observation about the moral judgment of "professors":
State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1787
In another era, civil society institutions such as the academy, the free press and the judiciary were counted on to safeguard constitutional democracy. That this is no longer the case cannot be blamed solely on Trump.
Yeah. That's right. The media is in the tank for Trump.
We’re historians (AKA LIARS) and you’re not, and “historians (LIARS) understand the impact these phenomena have upon society’s most vulnerable (AKA YOU STUPID PEOPLE).” Therefore we can’t keep silent (HAVE TO RUN OUR MOUTHES), for “the lessons (AKA THE FALSEHOODS WE’VE SPREAD) of history compel us to LIE ABOUT Trump.”
Trump has destroyed the Bell Curve theory finally. High IQ numbers does not measure common sense intellect...
Excellent point — completely destroys their arguments in just a few words.
I thought the Stanley Fish was awarded to a champion ice fisherman.
Jefferson was right, as usual
I define PROFESSOR as “one who entered a classroom at age 5 and to date has NEVER stopped out into the ‘real world’.
Also, in today’s world, surround themselves among people who hold similar views.
Thus, today’s professors create and turn out the “SNOWFLAKES” running around the campus searching for their “SAFE PLACE.”
There are numerous causes, but the left won the battle over who gets to indoctrinate our children decades ago. When I went to “college” in the 1970s most the professors were liberals. It is even worse these days.
Did you read the column?
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