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Related thread from earlier today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601500/posts
Great work by Michelle.
Another researcher proves to be a left wing crank with no real grasp of scientific methodology. I think I just described almost every sociology dept in the country (sorry, Herr Weber, it has come to this).
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Unlike the MSM, it looks like our babe Michelle actually does some REAL journalism.
"In other words, ALL of the children in that study were the offspring of U.C. Berkeley professors, lecturers, and staff members."
Moreover, if these kids are only 23 now, it's a bit too soon to say how they "turned out." At 23 I was quite the strutting little leftie, just brimming with sneering superiority toward all the evil rich and the stupid country folk who voted Republican. I didn't start learning about actual conservative philosophy till I came to Free Republic. And I was 33 then.
It's incredible that the professor didn't get it, but emotions usually rule when professors talk about politics. This sort of research is pretty worthless, because how we should act politically depends a lot on practical circumstances, rather than abstract ideas or personality types.
Though ideologues like to deny it, there are times, if only once in a generation, when the sort of person one doesn't like may well get it right about some issue, so writing off one set of emotions or reactions or ideas or personality traits entirely is foolish.
One can certainly tell the difference between a conservative raised by conservatives vs. the "new conservatives" raised by libs. Worlds apart in my estimation and, sadly, they have the megaphone for the time being.
What conservative kid wouldn't be whining if they were stuck with radical Berkley leftist parents?
There are days that I thank God for Michelle Malkin. This day and artice is one of them.
Not to undermine Malkin's piece, but I have to ask this: were Berkeley's faculty members in the 1960s and 1970s were as liberal as they are today, or --comparatively-- more conservative? The 90% liberals, was it also applied to the past? I know about the students movement there during that period, but am not sure about the professors/staff.
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Now THATS a disease I can relate to.......
"In other words, ALL of the children in that study were the offspring of U.C. Berkeley professors, lecturers, and staff members."
No wonder some were whiny; look where they learned it...
Ah-ha. For me, epiphany time :)