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Why Liberals Run Academia
Chris Scott Blog ^ | 9/12/09 | Chris Scott

Posted on 09/25/2009 4:55:44 PM PDT by stimulusmyass

I've been thinking a lot recently about the disparate gap in reasoning between the mainstream academic elites and the rest of America. Why is it that liberalism is so often an outgrowth of scholarly people? The most prominent colleges in America---the ivy league schools---are often the most liberal environments, and produce the writers, artists and politicians who are often the most liberal. Why is this so?

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TOPICS: Education; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: academia; editorial; highereducation; leberalism; leftismoncampus; liberals; school
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Just think this topic is so relevant to what is going on in our country today. I think it all boils down to relativism infecting our society.
1 posted on 09/25/2009 4:55:44 PM PDT by stimulusmyass
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Why Liberals Run Academia

Cuz if you can't do it, teach it. Cuz they can't do real work.

2 posted on 09/25/2009 4:57:11 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (dear world: we are so sorry for Barack Hussein Obama. Can you ever forgive us? ** hang the Czars.)
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To: stimulusmyass

Welcome to FR. Checking your post history, you made your first two posts on two separate threads at EXACTLY the same time. WTF?! How did you manage that?


3 posted on 09/25/2009 4:57:18 PM PDT by library user
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To: library user

2 browsers/tabs open?


4 posted on 09/25/2009 4:58:06 PM PDT by robomatik
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Yeah, but don’t you have to toggle back and forth? Wouldn’t you lose at least a fraction of a second?!


5 posted on 09/25/2009 4:59:01 PM PDT by library user
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To: library user

maybe he’s been lurking since ‘96 and has learned all the tricks...?


6 posted on 09/25/2009 5:00:39 PM PDT by robomatik
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To: stimulusmyass

I was going to go to law school, then decided I could better serve my country with a doctorate in history. You are correct. The liberal rot being taught in even relatively conservative universities (like Texas Tech) is unbelievable, and far, far worse than it was 20 years ago. We must deliver new conservative blood into academia or we’re all comrades of the left.


7 posted on 09/25/2009 5:01:29 PM PDT by DRey
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To: library user

lot of clones on FR


8 posted on 09/25/2009 5:02:00 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: stimulusmyass
Professional college people tend to be soft and kind of lazy. Pretty hard to get a multiple fracture or cut off a finger in a saw while thumbing though books.
9 posted on 09/25/2009 5:02:38 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: stimulusmyass
During the Viet Nam “war” era, a lot of draft dodgers stayed in school pursuing degrees that helped keep them out of the military.

Many of them learned to despise the country because of their antiwar dispositions.

10 posted on 09/25/2009 5:03:13 PM PDT by Radix (Obama represents CHAINS for posterity.)
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To: stimulusmyass

I have often wondered the same thing. Also the media.

I actually think it may be some type of conspiracy tho I have no idea what. The reason I say that, is the media and academia (along with religion) are perfect vehicles for propaganda, in other words they are exactly what a person would choose in order to bend people’s minds.

It could be as simple as Satan.


11 posted on 09/25/2009 5:04:24 PM PDT by yarddog
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clowns too


12 posted on 09/25/2009 5:04:35 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: vbmoneyspender

They’re now called “trones” on FR..trolls and clones.


13 posted on 09/25/2009 5:05:50 PM PDT by max americana (i)
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To: stimulusmyass

academia is cant function outside institutions. they dont deal with the real world...


14 posted on 09/25/2009 5:06:36 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: library user; robomatik

How about this: He had windows open on two separate computers and pushed the “post” button at the exact same time?


15 posted on 09/25/2009 5:07:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: stimulusmyass

I think there is a Fabian-like faction in the United States whose sole purpose for the last 50 years has been to slowly change the way Americans think. This is best accomplished through media control, literature, education, entertainment, etc... I don’t think it is any accident that these nutcase lefties are in academia. They only seem crazy now - give them another 20 years, and there will be even more radical thinkers in their place.


16 posted on 09/25/2009 5:08:23 PM PDT by Flying right
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To: al baby

and cloned clowns as well


17 posted on 09/25/2009 5:09:12 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: nickcarraway

that’s the best explanation yet!


18 posted on 09/25/2009 5:12:20 PM PDT by robomatik
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To: stimulusmyass

We have become a nation of ‘conformists’ aka ‘followers’. Children are taught that to succeed they must attend institutions of higher learning.

Creative thinking is not taught in colleges or universities...it is suppressed. Average students cannot overcome the intense indoctrination and brainwashing practiced by liberal professors - if they want a passing grade.

Most college graduates are competent at accumulating a ‘set of facts’ and matching that knowledge to exams. It ain’t science...it’s human nature. The path of least resistence.

We have become a nation of followers not innovators.

sad


19 posted on 09/25/2009 5:13:56 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Never give up- Keep Up!!!)
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