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Posted on 07/11/2025 5:01:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On July 10, 2025 a Dr. Jennifer M. Morton, who says “I am a philosophy professor whose views are, for the most part, politically progressive,” offered a New York Times op-ed, “Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives”. She teaches at U. Penn, and Dr. Morton is worried.
She’s worried a conservative prof hired for being conservative might be rigid and inflexible in his or her thinking.
Me thinks she might be telling on herself. Of course, she’s not rigid and inflexible in her thinking. Oh no. She offers, by way of proof of her reasonableness, that she teaches one libertarian philosopher. And why does she do this, in her view, magnanimous thing? Because she wants her “liberal students to be challenged” and her “libertarian students to think carefully about the arguments that support their position.”
Kind of a lot to unpack there. That thought is heavy with implications. You’ll note the liberal students are not invited to “think carefully about the arguments that support their position,” only the libertarian students are invited or expected to do that. The liberal students will be coddled and calmed down should they be triggered, presumably.
And, of course, she says all this in a New York Times op-ed discouraging viewpoint diversity, but because this opinion is purportedly based on her concern that these poor conservative professors would experience a kind of existential angst about having to stay conservative to keep their jobs, we’re just supposed to overlook that, I guess. She must think they don’t know their own minds as well as she clearly does and could be easily swayed, I suppose? Once they are exposed to their colleagues’ progressive enlightenment?
Why is it when progressives talk about people who aren’t like them it’s always with a sense of pitying
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Who would want to be stranded on a deserted island with a liberal professor?
“Who would want to be stranded on a deserted island with a liberal professor?”
I’d need something to eat.
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That sack of meat has spoiled long ago. You would be fighting the flies.
The lack of self awareness is shocking.
On the other hand I think it would be to any society’s advantage if ALL LIB nitwit professors were stranded on a deserted island.
If they were all there, then the island wouldn’t be deserted.
BUT we could call it the “Island of Nitwit Toys.”
René Descartes: I think, therefore I am.
Today's university philosophers: I am, but I don't think.
*Progressives* think they’re morally superior to everyone and understand how they think.
Reality is that they are so out of touch with reality, they don’t have a clue.
Progressive my a**. Philosophy Instructors should not misappropriate language to suggest PROGRESS will ever come out of their actions. Let’s take back the word Progress. She is a Communist. Our Universities have been filled with them.
If you can’t say something nice, etc... so...
She shore has purdy teeth!
>> She’s worried a conservative prof hired for being conservative might be rigid and inflexible in his or her thinking.
Boy, that there is capital-P projection!
No, her real challenge to grapple with is that conservatives DO think. Progressives emote and react and feel, but think? Not so much.
“...whose views are, for the most part, politically progressive”
Why so modest, dear? Give us an example, just one, of your “non-progressive” views.
There are more ditsy authoritarians on college campuses than most people probably imagine exist in the world.
A conservative professor would have a grasp of all the old ones, varied and numerous.
But a self-proclaimed "Progressive" has grasped onto Marx and his successors (a narrow subgroup) to the exclusion of all the others preceding and following.
And she admits it: Doesn't think a "conservative" i.e., traditional thinker could be open minded enough. So a priori she excludes any conservative to be a philosopher in her stinking department.
It's a constitutional ignorance these liberals have. Zero insight into it either.
That is rich.
Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Liberals.
Conservative professors would be more popular than lib faculty by offer a sanctuary for students bullied by leftists. Also conservative professors sue when the admin discriminates against them.
No wonder her parents didn’t get a divorce one of them would have to keep her.
Hers would be the kind of class I'd take so I would have time for my real subjects.
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