Posted on 10/28/2005 2:46:12 PM PDT by neverdem
I am in debt to liberal scholars across America. After I wrote about the leftward tilt on campus, they sent me treatises explaining that the shortage of conservatives on faculties is not a result of bias. Professors helpfully offered other theories why conservatives do not grace the halls of academe:
1 Conservatives do not value knowledge for its own sake.
2 Conservatives do not care about the social good.
3 Conservatives are too greedy to work for professors' wages.
4 Conservatives are too dumb to get tenure.
I've studied these theories as best I could (for a conservative), but somehow I can't shake the notion that there just might be some bias on campus.
I can imagine various reasons why liberals would be intrinsically more inclined than conservatives to pursue academic careers. But even if that's true, it doesn't explain why there are so many more liberal professors now than there used to be.
Surveys last year showed that Democratic professors outnumber Republican professors by at least 7 to 1, more than twice the ratio of three decades earlier. The trend seems likely to continue, because younger professors are far more likely than older professors to be Democrats.
You could argue that fewer conservatives today want to become professors, but that seems odd, given the country's move to the right in recent decades. Conservative student groups and publications are flourishing. Plenty of smart conservatives have passed up Wall Street to work for right-wing think tanks that often don't pay more than universities do, and don't offer lifetime tenure and summers off.
At think tanks and other research institutions outside academia, there's a much higher percentage of Republicans than there is on university faculties. Apparently, despite their greed and other failings, many conservatives do want to become scholars, but they can't...
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Do ursine specimens defecate forestially?
Is the planet Earth round?
Do campuses lean left? Only because a chunk of their faculties are made up of aging radicals and hippies who never left.
BWAHAHA!
Does the Pope lean Catholic?
Yes
Lean left?
LEAN?
How about fell flat over and put a crater in the ground.
An outward Conservative professor has about 10 % chance of getting tenure while a Liberal who propagandizes instead of teach has about 100% chance.
Is Kerry a coward and liar?
Is Fat Ted Kennedy a drunk?
Is Hillary a witch (rhymes with the B word)?
Is Harry Reid a fool?
Is Boxer a rebellion?
Is Feinstein ugly?
Is Dean a maniac?
Is McScream a RINOcrat?
Well?
Do college campuses lean left?
Only if the wind blows the buildings that way.
Does a McDonald's clerk speak Spanish?
Is the Pope German?
How about calling in a leftward-leaning drill rig and continuing to dig out the bottom of the crater?
Bears -- poop -- woods?
Yup.
The world is upside down to the academic world Foucault and Derrida would be so proud.
Of course they do. Professors overwhelmingly make campaign donations to the left. Their dominance is not because they are any smarter, as some of them arrogantly claim. Doctors, who are also smart, give about equally to each side. I've written about this below, and am trying to get it in shape for publication in a journal.
Haha!
Funny stuff.
The hostility in their responses are the real reason. Liberals hate unashamedly and without restraint. The lack of morality in their lifestyles also dominates their political and social relationships. It's the mentality of the Final Solution.
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