I'm a member of the Republican club at Westfield State College in MA, which isn't too far from Amherst; in fact we've done several events with the UMass republican club, including going to their campus and standing outside in 7 degree weather for the dedication of the Christmas tree mentioned in the article.
Do these folks not understand their job descriptions?
Captain Obvious is the Editor.
As the recipient of two degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst... yep, that's how it is. I was not politically interested while I was in school, though, so I just kind of ignored it all in favor of the computing that I love. I will say that me and a friend used to have a great time going down to the student union (where you can smell the patchouli oil a mile away) and get coffee and have heated arguments about math. No one ever seemed to want to join our conversations though... I still think it's a pretty good school, in general, but like all schooling, what you put in is the biggest determinant in what you get out...
You can tell just by the disproportionately high amount of VW Beetles Amherst is commietown!
Nonconformity is double-plus good. Everyone agrees with that.
More stunning news:
Houston is hot in July
The Pope is Catholic
Liberals control Hollywood
The Pacific Ocean has lots of salt water
The bitterness runs deep. I once saw this townie biker-guy cut a long line of pizza-buyers (they were all college kids). He went straight to the front and they served him, nobody had the balls to complain.
I was mad then (at him and at the kids who did nothing about it), but looking back now - I totally side with him, 100%.
Imagine living in a country that was like Amherst. :-(
Surely no truer words were ever spoken about liberalism.
I have a Conservitive friend (and a conservationist too) who went to Amherst in the 80s. From what I gather from her, they don't lean left....they fall over and roll left.
"They're far too close-minded to be liberal."There is nothing liberal about the Left.
The word liberal should not be applied to Leftists. When they refer to themselves as "Liberals" it is an Orwellian paradox, like "love is hate", "war is piece", and "freedom is slavery".
"More than 41 percent have graduate or professional degrees, the data show, and nearly 52 percent work in education, health or social services.Such credentials once indicated education and suggested "free thought", liberalism, open mindedness, and openness to freedom of inquiry and ideas. Today they indicate indoctrination."The demographics make for a brainy, mainstream-eschewing population, one longtime resident said, but do not necessarily cultivate 'free' thought. "
American academic institutions, once bastions of liberalism, freedom of though, free inquiry, and intellectual honesty and once the envy of the world, have become indoctrination centers, madrassas for Leftist consensus and groupthink.
Arguments based on the fallacy of logic "appeal to authority", that once held some influence on the logically naive or indiscriminant, are now considered risible when applied to academics and those with academic degrees. They are looked upon as the fools they are and their arguments as nothing more than the parrotting of the catechism of their indoctrination centers.