Posted on 10/16/2016 8:24:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber
I recently joined 145 other scholars and writers in declaring support for Donald Trump for president.
For every Trump supporter who agreed to join us, several others declined, believing that coming out publicly in favor of Trump would harm their careers. I’ve been upfront about my conservative views for more than 30 years, since before I got tenure, so any harm to me is probably already priced in. I debated economist James Galbraith in front of thousands in the University of Texas’s University Lecture Series in 2008, for example, arguing in favor of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). And I edited one of the few textbooks for courses in contemporary moral problems that represent views from the left and right in equal measure. I’m fortunate to teach at a university committed to diversity in all its forms, including diversity of thought.
But the left has come to dominate college campuses over the past 20 years, and I can’t blame anyone whose views are not already well-known for declining to become a target. Just last week, a professor from another institution shared a Facebook post hoping for all Trump supporters to be destroyed “immediately and forever.” Who wants to be subject to such expressions of hostility?
Other professors used to ask me questions about politics: “You’re smart. You’re knowledgeable. How can you support” whichever Republican was running for president that year? Far from being dismissive, that used to lead to interesting and revealing conversations. I still have extended and productive political discussions with some old friends who disagree with me. Indeed, they were Bernie Sanders supporters, and the diagnoses Trump and Sanders give are not far apart, even if their prescriptions are quite different.
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My advice to college professors is to wait until you have tenure to pick a fight with lucifer.
That quote is priceless.
Wow.
Tenure doesn’t matter. They’ll still crucify these professors.
Even for profs with tenure, there are many ways in which faculty leftists can block, limit, and diminish the careers of conservatives. Just because they can’t fire you doesn’t mean they can’t block your grants, publications, further promotions, awards and honors (which would normally lead to better pay and opportunities) etc. etec.
The campus leftists are totalitarian fascists at heart.
It’s the comments section that is most enlightening in any Washington Post article. The professor gives reasoned arguments. The comments are all variations on “he is an idiot”. No dialogue, just variations on shaming.
The country is lost if Trump loses.
They claim the professor is delusional. They are living in an alternate reality.
The student is too perceptive to be an empty libhole. If so, it’s funny how the prof didn’t immediately recognize the student as conservative.
Perhaps bezos’s blog published the article with the ultimate intention of destroying the prof’s career and life.
It is what I would expect from a Washington Compost Article. I am surprised they even published it. Maybe the comments were the reason.
Says it all.
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A fairly prominent history professor once expressed something similar to me about speaking the truth regarding Abraham Lincoln.
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