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Why professors are liberal: They're intelligent
San Diego Union ^ | December 3, 2004 | Various

Posted on 12/03/2004 12:55:13 PM PST by Ramonan

In his column, "Campuses remain Democratic havens," George Will certainly tries hard to explain why faculty members at our prominent universities are overwhelmingly liberal. But as is often the case with Will, he fails to mention the obvious. These people are liberal because they are intelligent, thoughtful and well-educated. They know something of labor and social history and realize that for most people a return to conditions of the early 20th century would not be in their interest. Finally, they are unpersuaded by slogans like "compassionate conservative" and "ownership society," which are primarily a cover for the transfer of society's wealth into the pockets of the rich.

THOMAS ALDEN Borrego Springs

Demonstrating once again that you can be articulate, educated, powerful and connected yet still have no clue to what is actually going on, Will bemoans the lack of "conservative" thought on college campuses. The first thing that comes to my mind is thank God. If most professors' ideological rudders represented those of the current Republican Party, institutions of higher learning would be teaching creationism as the explanation of man's existence on Earth, ignoring more than a century of anthropological discoveries because they conflicted with biblical teachings. Government studies would renounce labor unions as pseudocommunist fronts, since businesses always do what is best for workers. Law schools would concern themselves primarily with property law, since only owners of property have rights.

CLIFF HANNA San Diego

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academia; bias; clueless; college; education; elites; faculty; georgewill; liberalism; msm; university
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To: FreedomCalls

hey...ask him when I can score some peyote...

Ph.D=Piled Higher and Deeper.


101 posted on 12/03/2004 1:29:07 PM PST by Keith (NOW, MORE THAN EVER....IT'S ABOUT THE JUDGES!)
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To: Cyclopean Squid

Thank you for the insight...very enlightening.


102 posted on 12/03/2004 1:29:27 PM PST by bigjoesaddle
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To: Ramonan

One of the most important pillars this nation has, is the ability for it's citizens to own their own home and land.

One of the writers termed this, code talk for enriching the wealthy. My God, what an ignorant imbecile.

The echo of this talk is that everything should be owned by the state so that things all things are equal. The Soviet Union proved this unquestionably. Almost everyone was equal, and dirt poor, subject to the whims of the state.


103 posted on 12/03/2004 1:29:47 PM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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To: pikachu

Especially those who teach "philosophy" or some other full of crap subject! They've never lived in a real world. With their balding heads and pony tail(men-well girlie men) and their aging bmw's or vw buses! And most live in faculty housing so what do they know about the real world?


104 posted on 12/03/2004 1:29:54 PM PST by LYSandra
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To: sinanju

Look up the term "idiot savant."


105 posted on 12/03/2004 1:30:05 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Ramonan

Yeah, I get to read this kind of rubbish in the Letters section of the U-T every day. O Joy, O Rapture! I did manage to get a letter published in response to a recent Lib "Whine Festival" about the election results, but the U-T doesn't accept letters from the same author for 120 days at a time, so I just read 'em and shake my head at the incredible mix of arrogance and thick-headedness.


106 posted on 12/03/2004 1:30:24 PM PST by macbee ("Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: Ramonan

The fondest memories I have of college (aside from binge drinking and the ensuing adventures) are the battles I had with my liberal professors. Many of them were remarkably unskilled in debate and possed a shallow knowledge of issues for which they held such strong opinions. There is nothing like making your professor look silly during their lecture in front of a couple hundred people. Although it probably didn't help my grades!


107 posted on 12/03/2004 1:31:11 PM PST by ConservativeAgenda (Don't rely upon others to stand up for what you believe is right!)
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To: Ramonan
anthropological discoveries because they conflicted with biblical teachings.

Hey brainiac - you misspelled Biblical.

108 posted on 12/03/2004 1:31:16 PM PST by SlayerOfBunnies
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To: LYSandra

Philosphy is a great field! The Founding Fathers were philsophers and drew on many others. There is good and bad in every field.


109 posted on 12/03/2004 1:32:22 PM PST by Borges
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To: ConservativeAgenda

possed = possessed


110 posted on 12/03/2004 1:32:42 PM PST by ConservativeAgenda (Don't rely upon others to stand up for what you believe is right!)
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To: Ramonan

My Version:

In his column, "Campuses remain Democratic havens," George Will certainly tries hard to explain why faculty members at our prominent universities are overwhelmingly liberal. But as is often the case with Will, he fails to mention the obvious. These people are liberal because they are completely divorced from reality. They know nothing of current labor and social conditions and don't realize that for most people a return to the tired solutions of the 1930's would not be in their interest. Finally, they are persuaded by slogans like "redistribution of the wealth" and "welfare state," which are primarily a cover for the transfer of society's wealth into the pockets of the idle, lazy and unproductive.


111 posted on 12/03/2004 1:33:36 PM PST by You Dirty Rats (31 Red States - All Your Senate Are Belong To Us!!)
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To: Ramonan
Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe wrote a column yesterday concerning the same subject.

One of the Globe's alleged readers wrote this letter as a commentary. A number of people have suggested that the Globe falsifies letters, but I wouldn't know. I certainly know that they have never printed one of my letters.

 

112 posted on 12/03/2004 1:33:37 PM PST by Radix (This Tag Line is completely self referential.)
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To: Ramonan

Professors? Intelligent?

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Do they seem to know a lot about their subject field the way they believe it should be known. Sure. Intelligent. Probably not.


113 posted on 12/03/2004 1:33:48 PM PST by UseYourHead (Smith & Wesson: The original point-and-click interface)
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To: LYSandra
Especially those who teach "philosophy" or some other full of crap subject!

Trying hard to prove the letter writer right?

114 posted on 12/03/2004 1:34:04 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: FreedomCalls

Philosophers get too used to reading translations of German, which, in the translation process becomes like onject-oriented computer coding. As in "this means what I say it means." And then the terms, which made sense in German, become sort of an English terminology for philosophy. And the same happens with Latin.


115 posted on 12/03/2004 1:34:23 PM PST by dangus
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To: Ramonan

Professors are 'intelligent'? LOL Well, there is book smarts, then there is actual intelligence. Anyone can spout the party line, professor. It takes real intelligence to see that the party line doesn't work in real life.


116 posted on 12/03/2004 1:34:53 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Ramonan
These people are liberal because they are intelligent, thoughtful and well-educated. They know something of labor and social history and realize that for most people a return to conditions of the early 20th century would not be in their interest.

I can visualize a well-intentioned seventh grader writing this. Shy, intelligent, not popular with her peers, a misfit; and totally wrong.

I am not liberal, but am intelligent, thoughtful and well-educated. But I do not by any means see the choice as limited to having to choose between being a liberal or wanting to return to the conditions of the early 20th century. The intellectual disconnect here, even for a "progressive" with an agenda, is breathtaking...

117 posted on 12/03/2004 1:35:28 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: Ramonan

I should have added that these liberal college professors are continually propped up and praised by the students that other liberal professors have indoctrinated into the cause, the MSM, and other liberal educators.

It's amazing that colleges are supposed to foster free thought, but it is actually strangled. Shades of college in the USSR. I wonder if the educators in the USSR were conservative?


118 posted on 12/03/2004 1:35:49 PM PST by CriticalJ
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To: Buck W.

"Those who can't teach, teach P.E."

From Alvie Singer (aka Woody Allen) in "Annie Hall"."


And for those who can't teach P.E. there is always a guidance counselor position somewhere.


119 posted on 12/03/2004 1:36:41 PM PST by Mase
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To: Ramonan
"There are some ideas so silly that only intellectuals could believe them."

George Orwell

120 posted on 12/03/2004 1:39:47 PM PST by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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