Here’s his explanation of Academia:
by Larry Beinhart
It is now a conventional complaint on the Right that university faculties are dominated by liberals.
It’s true.
A Washington Post story reported on a study that said: “72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative ... The disparity is even more pronounced at the most elite schools, where, according to the study, 87 percent of faculty are liberal and 13 percent are conservative.”
Naturally, Right-wingers claim this is a vast left-wing conspiracy.
There’s a more logical conclusion. A university faculty is home to people whose profession is thinking. To survey such a population is a valid way to select for people who think, as opposed to a random sample of the general population.
From that point of view, we see that among people who think, 72% are liberal and 15% conservative. Among elite thinkers, the portion of liberals goes up 87%.
Thinking leads to liberalism. Think about it.
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/larry-beinhart-dispatches-from-the-war-on-stupidity
Thanks, I attended a public high school and graduated from a state school in the mid-west. Now I understand why I am so stupid and dumb. I am grateful for these wonderfully enlightened people to let me know how totally inadequate I am.
Seriously, I have realized as I get older, how little I actually know. Most progressive/communists would have difficulty admitting that.
That’s even better satire.
Most leftists I’ve known are some of the stupidest people I’ve ever met. Usually utterly lacking in ethics, morality and basic character, and often exhibiting chronic to severe mental illness and cognitive dissonance. They’re the last people that should be in the education field.