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Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
The Washington Times ^ | August 1, 2012 | Emily Esfahani Smith

Posted on 08/02/2012 2:03:10 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

......................Psychologists Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, based at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, surveyed a roughly representative sample of academics and scholars in social psychology and found that “In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues.”

This finding surprised the researchers. The survey questions “were so blatant that I thought we’d get a much lower rate of agreement,” Mr. Inbar said. “Usually you have to be pretty tricky to get people to say they’d discriminate against minorities.”

One question, according to the researchers, “asked whether, in choosing between two equally qualified job candidates for one job opening, they would be inclined to vote for the more liberal candidate (i.e., over the conservative).”

More than a third of the respondents said they would discriminate against the conservative candidate. One respondent wrote in that if department members “could figure out who was a conservative, they would be sure not to hire them.”

Mr. Inbar, who volunteered for the Obama campaign in 2008, cautions that the finding reflects only what respondents said they would do — not necessarily what they actually would do in real life......................

....Harvey Mansfield, a conservative professor of government at Harvard University, argues that the anti-conservative bias is real and pronounced. He says conservatism is “just not a respectable position to hold” in the academy, where Republicans are caricatured as Fox News enthusiasts who listen to Rush Limbaugh.

Beyond that, conservatives represent a distinct minority on college and university campuses. A 2007 report by sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons found that 80 percent of psychology professors at elite and non-elite universities are Democrats.....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Meanwhile, Chick-Fil-A is being barbequed for merely stating a principle.


21 posted on 08/02/2012 3:07:33 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: Carry_Okie

This is what you said. “If you want something done about liberal indoctrination in our universities, best you take this seriously...” So, has the education system been taken over by communists or hasn’t it? Make up your mind.


22 posted on 08/02/2012 3:14:45 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The do discriminate against normal students and in employment every chance they get.

There is a reason for the total liberal circle jerk the “smart” people do. And these totaltarian idiots are going to engineer our health care and the global government. :)


23 posted on 08/02/2012 3:19:13 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Terry Mross
So, has the education system been taken over by communists or hasn’t it?

Not completely. If they had complete control, home education would not exist at all. QED

Make up your mind.

At least I have one, instead of a collection of paralyzing opinions, or should I say, "excuses."

24 posted on 08/02/2012 3:35:37 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Now it’s documented.

Maybe conservatives can get special Equal Opportunity Employment protection and business set-asides and loans from the government now that it is documented that they are discriminated against.


25 posted on 08/02/2012 3:42:13 PM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Carry_Okie

So, do you come here to learn things or just to insult people and try to start fights. Go away, little person.


26 posted on 08/02/2012 3:48:53 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Carry_Okie

And by the way, home schooling is not part of the “education system”. People home school their kids to get them OUT of the “education system”. Sometimes you should keep quiet rather than show how stupid you are just because you want to start an argument.

I’ll say it one more time so you might be able to understand. Liberals took over the “EDUCATION SYSTEM” decades ago.


27 posted on 08/02/2012 3:52:23 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: generally

Figure out a RICO violation and now you’re in business. Parents need to get involved in where their kids go to school.


28 posted on 08/02/2012 3:58:56 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SandRat
"I was just being civil."

LOL!

29 posted on 08/02/2012 4:02:57 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

University of Oregon has over 400 profs and 2 are Repub. No they don’t discriminate.

Pray for America


30 posted on 08/02/2012 4:15:03 PM PDT by bray (If you vote for a Communist, what's that make you?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I was just wondering, how many college or university professors got there degrees via the GI Bill? LOL!!!


31 posted on 08/02/2012 5:12:56 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Typo, “their”.


32 posted on 08/02/2012 5:13:44 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Since it is legal for the government to openly discriminate against white males, and private companies are forced to do so at the point of a lawsuit, why should these seem strange at all?

ObamaCare pales in comparison to affirmative action; people lament the government mortgaging their grandchildren’s futures when whites can’t even support a family anymore. Education and decent jobs are out of reach, but don’t take my word for it - look around you. The demographic maelstrom is quickly becoming obvious to all.


33 posted on 08/02/2012 5:34:26 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
once long ago and far far away, you worked hard to educate yourself and go on to have a more successful life. Then colleges were overrun by liberals. Now you go in debt for life, and learn socialism and sexual studies, and cannot find a job. While those who work hard, and are honest people give up a "higher" education because they simply cannot afford it.

They go on and learn a trade, which gives them a more successful life.

Liberalism is its own punishment.


34 posted on 08/02/2012 5:40:54 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Why would they be afraid?

No one is going to punish them.

Now go pay your taxes - college professors that hate you need the money. :)


35 posted on 08/02/2012 6:06:33 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: SandRat

>> Conformation of something we we always suspected.

An essential component of the mindless horde better known as communists, socialists, and leftwingers — the ultimate collection of degenerate will and failure.


36 posted on 08/02/2012 6:42:58 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Terry Mross

No, but they can decide who gets hired at the university.


37 posted on 08/02/2012 6:43:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: Terry Mross
So, do you come here to learn things or just to insult people and try to start fights.

You came here pitching despair. You don't have a case.

Go away, little person.

I gave you reason to have hope that we can collapse this system and replace it. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't even read the link you were given. Instead, you cling to "the system" as an unalterable reality, effectively accepting defeat.

What the hell are you doing here then? Little people pitch despair. Some of us have work to do.

39 posted on 08/02/2012 11:37:13 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: Carry_Okie

Go out and try to change the education system. And while you’re at it try to change the republican party. Or you can crap in a hat and watch it fill up before you’ve made any positive changes.

The only way to change the education system is to build a new one of private schools. The only way to change the republican party is to start a new party.


40 posted on 08/03/2012 1:18:59 AM PDT by Terry Mross
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