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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

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


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: Joe Republc

... the continuation of "Why Universities Dominated By the Left" is called the "Opium of the Professors"

http://www.techcentralstation.com/021604A.html

-- Joe


281 posted on 01/01/2005 6:32:47 AM PST by Joe Republc
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To: Ramonan

IMHO those of particularly poor judgment take refuge behind a wall of degrees in their attempts to cope with reality...sort of a real world dyslexia....unfortunately this give them the opportunity to suck up Federal grant monies and corrupt budding minds....


282 posted on 01/01/2005 6:33:05 AM PST by mo
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To: Ramonan

as my Step-dad always says...one can be book smart, and common sense dumb. My take on liberals is this statement holds true most of the time!


283 posted on 01/01/2005 6:36:39 AM PST by Bottom_Gun (Crush depth dummy)
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To: Ramonan

There is also the adage about being educated beyond one's level of intelligence.....


284 posted on 01/01/2005 6:38:57 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: alessandrofiaschi
Hi friend, what's happened here?

Happy New Year, Alessandro!

Just had a few words with a DU troll. Looks like they deleted his posts. Just someone who takes exception to every conservative value and feels the need to express it here.
285 posted on 01/01/2005 9:00:28 AM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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To: Ramonan
They know something of labor and social history

...and have experience from ivory towers.

286 posted on 01/01/2005 9:04:58 AM PST by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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To: fritzz
" "a socialist train cannot sustain itself without a capitalist engine"."

Darn, for all my reading, I missed this one. I LOVE it! Has been said many ways, but this is the most succinct.

287 posted on 01/01/2005 9:13:57 AM PST by litehaus
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To: pikachu
"Needless to say the young lady graduated with honors and a 4.0 GPA."

No doubt later she was on a Nobel Prize commission giving a peace prize to Arafat?

288 posted on 01/01/2005 9:16:33 AM PST by litehaus
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To: Ramonan
A little more excerpted from Cliff Hanna:

It is also a time to reach further than your grasp, to seek new information and challenge long-held truths. In science, if existing theories are found to be in error, they are refined or new ones take their place. So it is with education. When processes from the past prove faulty in the present, they too are discarded, exchanged for new models that represent recent findings. Perhaps this is Will's strongest objection: that his ideas have outlived their relevance.

It is exactly the liberals failure to do what this bozo recommends for you and I that is the root cause of the slow but certain erosion of liberal political influence. It is, in fact, a demonstrable characteristic of conservative thinking that it continuously analyzes the past looking and learning from the mistakes that have been made by humankind and working to avoid repeating those mistakes.

Liberals do not do this.

The easy proof of this is that they continue to ignore the great political lesson of the 20th Century: "Socialism Doesn't Work". It would be interesting to hear about the "recent findings" that Mr. Hanna refers to. You can be fairly certain that his new findings and "new models" will involve using your money for the things he wants to do. That is not new. Hundreds of millions died to test out that idea over the last 100 years and we know the answer.

Wake up, Mr. Hanna.

289 posted on 01/01/2005 9:21:33 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: Ramonan
Professors who don't get research grants awarded, don't get tenure

Look at where the research grant money comes from, and what your attitude needs to be in order to get the favor of the grant awarding committee, and you have your answer

290 posted on 01/01/2005 9:32:18 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (We are going to fight until hell freezes over and then we are going to fight on the ice)
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