Political Bias and Anti-Americanism on College Campuses

A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on our nation. The leftward political bias, held by faculty members affiliated with the Democratic Party, at most institutions of higher education explains a lot of that disappointment. Professors Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens document this bias in "Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges."

Langbert and Stevens conducted a new study of the political affiliation of 12,372 professors in the two leading private and two leading public colleges in 31 states. For party registration, they found a Democratic to Republican (D:R) ratio of 8.5:1, which varied by rank of institution and region. For donations to political candidates (using the Federal Election Commission database), they found a D:R ratio of 95:1, with only 22 Republican donors, compared with 2,081 Democratic donors.

Several consistent findings have emerged from Langbert and Stevens' study. The ratio of faculty who identify as or are registered as Democratic versus Republican almost always favors the Democratic Party. Democratic professors outnumber their Republican counterparts most in the humanities and social sciences, compared with the natural sciences and engineering. The ratio is 42:1 in anthropology, 27:1 in sociology and 27:1 in English. In the social sciences, Democratic registered faculty outnumber their Republican counterparts the least in economics 3:1. The partisan political slant is most extreme at the most highly rated institutions.

The leftist bias at our colleges and universities has many harmful effects. Let's look at a few. At University of California, Davis, last month, a mathematics professor faced considerable backlash over her opposition to the requirement for faculty "diversity statements." University of California, San Diego, requires job applicants to admit to the "barriers" preventing women and minorities from full participation in campus life. At American University, a history professor recently wrote a book in which he advocates repealing the Second Amendment. A Rutgers University professor said, "Watching the Iowa Caucus is a sickening display of the over-representation of whiteness." University of California, Berkeley, professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich chimed in to say: "Think about this: Iowa is 90.7% white. Iowa is now the only state with a lifetime voting ban for people with a felony conviction. Black people make up 4% of Iowa's population but 26% of the prison population. How is this representative of our electorate?" A Williams College professor said he would advocate for social justice to be included in math textbooks. Students at Wayne State University no longer have to take a single math course to graduate; however, they may soon be required to take a diversity course.

Then there's a question about loyalty to our nation. Charles Lieber, former chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, was arrested earlier this year on accusations that he made a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement about work he did for a program run by the Chinese government that seeks to lure American talent to China. He was paid $50,000 a month and up to $158,000 in living expenses for his work, which involved cultivating young teachers and students, according to court documents. According to the Department of Justice, Lieber helped China "cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China's scientific development, economic prosperity and national security."

It's not just Harvard professors. Newly found court records reveal that Emory University neuroscientist Li Xiao-Jiang was fired in late 2019 after being charged with lying about his own ties to China. Li was part of the same Chinese program as Lieber. A jury found a University of California, Los Angeles, professor guilty of exporting stolen U.S. military technology to China. Newsweek reported that he was convicted June 26 on 18 federal charges. Meanwhile, NBC reported that federal prosecutors say that University of Texas professor Bo Mao attempted to steal U.S. technology by using his position as a professor to obtain access to protected circuitry and then handing it over to the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei.

The true tragedy is that so many Americans are blind to the fact that today's colleges and universities pose a threat on several fronts to the well-being of our nation.

I would vett any college that you send your kid to. Unless your a red diaper doper baby parent then the more Marxist the better.

Let’s be clear here. It is more than just ‘anti-American’ it is anti-white increasingly so and all across the country. Whites better wake up.

The ratio is 3 to 1 in economics. In the black lesbian African American experience classes it’s about 50 to 1.

it would make sense that Republicans don’t want to teach these nonsense courses and so are heavily outnumbered in them

But even three to one in economics is bad

I think saying have is a bit too stilted in favor of the schools. Anyone paying attention knows our universities are a bastion of maniacal socialist spewing professors who have never had to earn a living in the real world.

The ‘campus’ is an indoctrination center. Their goal is to invalidate every single thing that you ever taught your child. It’s the graduation factory turning out every generation of misinformed, mindlessly biased voters

Colleges ?

My wife teaches Middle School in a conservative county in California and can’t even take her break in the coffee room.

While there are several conservative teachers at her school they keep their political comments to themselves.

Hoping the emboldened Left gets trounced in 2020 and teed up for a backlash.

I’ve got an idea. How about “diversity”? The goal needs to be 50/50. Party affiliations and political philosophy and political donations should be “taken into account” for all future hiring decisions. Faculty spaces need rob reserved for Conservative Republicans and of course tenure must be awarded on the same basis.

I’m sure nobody could possibly oppose “diversity”. Right Lefties?

Last week, Kaitlin Bennett, a young conservative activist visited the campus of Ohio University, where she began a man-in-the-street interview program in which she asked passersby questions about US presidents. However, it quickly morphed into a mob scene with around 1,000 students surrounding her, shouting insults and threats while campus police stood by and did nothing. The courage and poise she showed while facing down the mob are incredible, as displayed in the 40-minute video below (there are also shorter videos available on FR and Youtube).

Listening to what members of the mob are shouting will demonstrate how deeply brainwashed they have become thanks to the Left's total domination of k-postdoc education.

Leftists Riot Against Kaitlin Bennett at Ohio University .

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