Rush is going to cause this young woman to be out of a job. After the initial shock wears off, the office grapevine will be in full hum, attributing all manner of neanderthal thoughts and motivations. If she's not set up for a fall and fired outright, she'll be frozen out and ridiculed until she leaves. University politics is unbelievably bitter and destructive. If she's so unhappy, and I probably would be in the same position, she needs to have her ducks in a row, with a job outside of academia, before she finally rips into them, that's all I've got to say.
That was my thought too, but Rush's advice is interesting. That is exactly how some of my liberal friends treat me and my comments. (Laugh and imply that I must be loosing it, cause I surely am smart enough to see the liberal idea is the only correct position,.. Ug.
I think you're right. University politics is very petty, very ugly. Wearing a hat like that is simply asking for trouble. That doesn't mean that you don't have to stand up for what you believe in, but it's imprudent to start fights by laughing at people if you don't have a fallback position. A young and apparently unconfident girl can't really argue with, persuade, and win over an office of twenty hardened leftists. They are immune to the application of logic.
If we're ever to clean up the vomit that these liberal professors have spued into these young minds of mush, then we MUST confront them, in a manner that they have earned and deserve.
Not necessarily. I was in the Environmental Toxicology department--the name alone tells you what kind of people worked there. I didn't hide the fact that I am a conservative (probably the only one in the department), yet I survived there not only until I got my PhD, but through a post-doc, too. For me, what happens in this situation, when the conservative speaks up, is that the liberals tend to be more careful about the tripe they spout. Some of them might even worry that the conservative won't be their friend any more.
Since the caller was from Poughkeepsie, the liberal arts college I believe she was referring to was my old alma mater, Vassar College. The president, Fran Ferguson has blasted the Bush administration in speeches to the students.