Posted on 10/15/2007 9:54:48 AM PDT by Interesting Times
Highlighting the hypocrisy of the educrats by using their standards against them, as Dr. Moyar proposes here, might be a very effective way to crack open some of the intolerant bastions of leftist thought in academia...
Educational intolerance ping...
The Democrats only embrace ‘diversity’ if it doesn’t include people with different views than their own. If you try to bring some Republicans into the mix to break up the pure Democrat majority and thus ‘diversify’ the politial philosphies, they’ll have your head.
It's just a coincidence that all the rejects did not make the list of finalists.
Yeah, that's it.
Check out History News Network if you need something to get your day started. Some of the responses are right leaning, but the authors are almost all moonbats.
Liberals are fond of discovering "numerical discrimination." We've all read the stories about adjusting college enrollments based on statistical distributions by race, rather than by merit. The same applies to the workplace; Jesse & Co. love to find companies whose personnel roster does not reflect some mythical racial balance. It's all about the numbers, and ability be damned.
Yet when confronted with irrefutable evidence of their own statistical bias, liberals shrug it off as meaningless, and deploy the same arguments they roundly reject when the other side presents them in opposition to racial quotas.
Once again, Liberalism = Hypocrisy. No amount of spin or tap-dancing is going to change that.
“It’s the number of Democrats versus the number of Republicans in the University of Iowa history department”
The reason is because they’re safe in their little, bubble wrapped world of academia. Many of them wouldn’t be able to survive in the private sector.
All true. Good to hear from you, by the way...
Those that sought to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war remained in school and got graduate degrees. They were probably more likely to be ideologically opposed to the war as well. These same PhDs, having no other skills for working in the real world, ended up as the university professors we are saddled with today. Desiring to propagate their own kind they either flunked out conservative students or purposely refused to hire those conservative students that did manage to get through graduate programs.
I’m surprised they didn’t say that of COURSE there are no republican teachers. “EVERYONE they know” says that only stupid people are republicans.
You nailed it!
BTTT
Interesting. Ping!
Thanks. You too.
I had a high school friend that was a staunch conservative... till he went to the U of Iowa... in less than a year, he was wearing a PLO kaffiyeh and spouting about the “revolution”...
Not to mention the possibilty that all history students might have to receive additional vaccinations after having come in contact with a conservative professor!
One of the difficulties of liberal (in the classical sense) politics is that it requires that a thorough approach to intellectual life includes the consideration of opinions that are distasteful or in opposition to those of the individual involved or common to the institution. It is for that reason that Voltaire spoke up and that the ACLU defended the right of Nazis to march in Skokie. It is for that reason we have a First Amendment to the Constitution. This is so ingrained by now that most people on FR consider it a bedrock conservative position, which by now it in fact has become.
The trap is this - in an effort to see that certain minority positions are not suppressed other minority positions are so quite ruthlessly, and one function of the Left in power is to get to choose who are the anointed and who the damned. This is why this approach to "diversity" always trends toward the monolithic. The excuse is that the suppressed opinions are in reality those of the majority and hence not subject to the same protections. Simply proclaiming a position (say, a distaste for abortion or an insufficient deference to feminism) to be the "establishment" one invalidates it within this schema.
The result is plain to see - a self-selecting and self-perpetuating population whose makeup is anything but diverse but whose tendency to defend that makeup is predicated on the very principles that that defense crushes in practice. It is a contradiction (the Left is fond of "internal contradictions") and a trap, and its upshot is narrowness, brittleness, and intellectual poverty. Proud and defiant poverty, a poverty that calls itself virtue. It is poverty nonetheless. A university should be an intellectual smorgasbord, not a diet plate of celery and tapwater however virtuous the latter may be said to be. And the student is certainly paying smorgasbord prices.
I live 60 miles from Iowa City. The whole place is overrun with liberal vermin, not just the University. It’s like stepping into a midwestern version of San Francisco or Ithaca.
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