Posted on 04/27/2009 9:20:01 AM PDT by bs9021
Berkeley Studies Conservative Groups by: Deborah Lambert, April 27, 2009
If you want to delve into the history of conservative thought, you might want to try Berkeley.
That’s right. The same school that provided a launching pad for ‘60s free speech protesters Mario Savio et al, according to the New York Times.
This fall, the school will open its new Center for the Comparative Study of Right Wing Movements, funded with $777,000.00 from an anonymous donor.
Conservative historian Lee Edwards noted that the comparison aspect should be handled with care, since the “so-called right wing or parties of the right” in other countries “can be much more extreme than what they have here.”
“The identity of the anonymous donor has already sparked some comments and suggestions”....
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
The sleight of hand is tying “conservative” thought to “right-wing” thought.
Most people won’t see the trick.
Isn’t this redundant now that Napolitano released her study on conservatives?
So posting on FR gives me extra-credit?
Haven’t they done this before and come to the conclusion that we’re all mentally ill and/or retarded?
An equivalent center to study the minds of leftwingers was established but after a week had run out of work to do.
Nah, I think I'll go elsewhere, sources that have at least a minimal regard for the truth.
Maybe, just maybe, they''l cover some of the worlds most notorious dictators and notice a connection between what they believed and what the American left believes today. It could be an unexpected awakening.
At some point, being conservative will make us the counter-culture.
The NY Times ran interference or Joe Stalin with Walter Duranty’s columns. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the pro-Stalin propaganda as Uncle Joe starved 6 million Ukrainians.
Nice thought, but I'm really expecting a well-researched paper favorably comparing Bush's policies with Hitler's.
Or, the GOP with Bin Laden.
Let's have a funded study of communism in America, or fascism, or internationalism....oh, well, I guess that would be like the foxes being paid to study the chicken coop.
I betcha this is linked with that study done a few years ago (not remembering the title right now, but authors were Kruglansky, Jost, and two others). I think it was titled, “conservatism as motivated social cognition.”
It was all about how conservatism was “right-wing authoritarianism” and based on a number of studies. It was a metastudy. The Frankfurt school was referenced extensively.
Bears watching. Another smear job in the works.
Found the paper. You can download it at: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~hannahk/index1.html
This should be laughable at best. The best thing EVER to come out of Berkely was . . . . . . . . . um, . . . . . . . . . . er, . . . . . . . . . . . . Hmph!! As near as I can tell, NOTHING good has ever come out of Berkly.
At the rate Obama and the Democrat are going, you had best make that "criminal sub-culture".
George Soros?
There have been conservative professors at Berkeley, even if they are overshadowed and greatly outnumbered by the well-known leftists. There are even conservative Berkeley alumni.
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