Need Serious Advice re Liberal Professor

Vanity | SoVaDPJ

[SoVaDPJ]

Not doing my homework, folks, just need some back-up. Yesterday, I enrolled for the last classes I need before graduation. One is economics, and I met the professor, who told me he thinks the New York Times is too conservative. This is going to be a long and miserable semester unless I can argue every stupid point that comes up. I am guessing he's at least socialist leaning. I know less than nothing about economics, except that I want my taxes cut. Can anyone suggest an ongoing source for correcting the propaganda?

[Fenris6]

Its YOUR education. Get another instructer. Having a socialist teach eco is bad for your health.

[Fierce Allegiance]

The best 2 pieces of advice are to keep your mouth shut & survive it, as it wqill be over shortly and never refuse a breath mint.

[SoVaDPJ]

If only I had another option.
I don't mind the fight, just want to be right when I do it, and to have the facts to back it up. I'm stocking up on antacids and Tylenol though.

[Argus]

Thomas Sowell has published a good series of books on basic economics.

As far as the class goes, just parrot the Marxist line and get an A, comrade. Then go to grad school, become an economics professor yourself, and save the next generation.

[beeler]

If you really want to do well and get a degree, I would just act like a leftist and keep your mouth shut. I personally, would drop out and either educate myself or go to a technical school or program.

[KC_Conspirator]

Yesterday, I enrolled for the last classes I need before graduation.

My advice is play the game and get the bests grade you can. I tried once to not follow leftist orthodoxy and was purged out of a class I needed for graduation. Years later when I went back to finish I had to bite tongue when some leftist professor was shoveling their trash.

[DoctorMichael]

I was lucky. My undergraduate Economics (221/222/223) prof was a flaming Libertarian and HATED taxes!

[The Old Hoosier]

If you can't switch classes, just pretend to be a socialist. Make arguments for left-wing positions that are so over-the-top that you "unwittingly" demonstrate their absurdity.

[grellis]

I'm guessing that, with regard to your major and what you plan on doing with your life, economics will play a very small role. Well, career-wise, anyway, that seems to be the case. If it is, I'll be blunt: shut up and take it. Get your degree. When your free time permits, unlearn everything the socialist professor taught you.

[SoVaDPJ]

Then go to grad school, become an economics professor yourself, and save the next generation.

I'm planning something a bit more subversive. Practicing dealing with Marxists will be good practice though. Hmmm...the law of unintended consequences may just work for me.

[Californiajones]

Read Rush Limbaugh's first book and Adam Smith's book on Capitalism.

One of the best lessons on economics I've learned came from Rush -- that people don't work for the good of the masses -- they work to put bread on their own table. The flaw in Marx's arguments is that people will become altruistic and want to work for the benefit of all society. The reality? Look at how the DMV works. Look at how any government bureaucracy works. Most people working at these jobs don't work hard because they can hardly ever get fired. So the lines are long, the service stinks but the "socialist" impulse in us thinks that government can do a better job at things than private enterprise.

Marxists (and therefore socialists) are actually the most money-minded greedy people. WHen my parents traveled the world several times during the Cold War height, they said that people in theSoviet bloc countries and other "socialist" places, they were bombarded with rude questions about their income and lifestyle and crude money scams. Not to say that Americans aren't crass or greedy -- it is just the Marxism is a scam that locks the average Joe into having to work for the government and never is able to "pull himself up by his bootstraps" from one class to another. Oh and Marxists insist that once youare in one economic class, you will always be there. Except in America, where you can 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and work hard enough to go from dirt poor to filthy rich. Or, even better, log cabin to White House -- or in the case of Bill Clinton -- trailer trash to White House! Sorry for the mini lecture but do read Limbaugh's views on Marx in his first book.

[real saxophonist]

CLEP.

[JLS]

Its YOUR education. Get another instructer. Having a socialist teach eco is bad for your health.
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Exactly, if the scuttlebutt is that this person's bias enter the classroom, then take another instructor. You can do that:

1. Either at your school.

2. As a transient student and trasfer the credit back since if you are one or a few courses from graduation you likely have enough courses in residence to graduate from you school.

But scope out the prof carefully and find out if:

1. He thinks the NYT is too conservative because he is a Libertarian. You might find such a prof interesting.

2. He thinks the NYT is too conservative because he has left leanings. Then I would seek another section at my school or even another school as I said and transfer back the credit to graduate.

[sharktrager]

Why fight him?

You will not convince him he is wrong.

Your arguments will sway few if any other students, and will annoy many who just want the class to finish instead of being bogged down by debates.

If you feel you must correct him, get your A and, after you graduate, write him a long letter explaining all of his errors.

[Osage Orange]

What he said.............

Good Luck..!!

[BostonianRightist]

Welcome to club, my FRiend, I'm suffering from liberal lunacy up here at Northeastern U. Some how all liberals seem to find themelves drawn to education, journalism and law. Unfortunately, those are three of the most important fields.

[Space Wrangler]

Can anyone suggest an ongoing source for correcting the propaganda?

You'll just be paddling upstream. Either get another professor, or grin and bear it. Professors live in a make believe world where no product has to be made, no tangible results produced, and no consequences result from their actions. Arguing fact with a lib professor is about as productive as tits on a boar.