[governsleastgovernsbest]

Getting mugged by the liberal thought police helped make a conservative out of the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto. Ping to the Today show list.

[SMARTY]

Ha! I went through that in college years ago.

I had a professor who docked me a whole letter grade because I was not Liberal!

That guy invented a life-long and rabid Conservative that day!

[Lorianne]

He’d best watchout.
There are anti-free speech enthusiasts on both sides of the political spectrum

[PGR88]

I thought I was a liberal until college. I had a leftist girlfriend. Attended a few “divest South Africa” rallies, which was the issue on campus at the time. Couldn’t stand the mindless cliches and closed-mindedness of the participants.

Also, I saw that many of the people attending were clearly not from our school. Its the first I started to understand that the concept of agitation and outside organization the Left uses as well.

[Iron Munro]

Here's the cartoon in question:

[chimera]

My experience was that it can go both ways if you get a prof who has some measure of integrity (a rarity, I admit, but this was back in the early ‘70s). My English prof was known to be liberal but pro-life except if the life of one's wife was in danger as a result of pregnancy. He believed the marriage vows meant your spouse's well-being took precedence over the welfare of your child. I wrote a theme offering a partial rebuttal, noting that the goal should be to protect the lives of both, if possible, and that the child was as innocent as the wife in terms of right to life. He disagreed and noted that on the paper, but gave me a good grade anyway and a note saying he appreciated the logical and well-presented alternate view. Sadly, you probably can't find a similar case in academia today.