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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
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To: 101st-Eagle
Had an "intelligent" liberal professor banging his shoe on his desk about why we should have dropped the A-bomb on Mt. Fuji to demonstrate its power vise killing thousands. When someone pointed out the fact they didn't surrender after the first bomb and that we only had a limited amount of nuclear fuel to begin with and about another 10 reasons why this was foolish, the professor cut him off and basically called him a liar.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:40:03 PM PST
by
lt.america
(Captain was already taken)
To: All
I think modern day academia are addicted to Gramsci, Lukacs, Adorno, Fromm, and Marcuse.
Nothing like taking classes with a Prof. who thinks 'Eros and Civilization' is the gospel truth.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:42:48 PM PST
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
To: Ramonan
Forgot to mention they tend to run toward communist thinking too.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:42:54 PM PST
by
Pylot
To: lt.america
Every year without fail, it seems that some MIT type can't resist the urge to walk across the "frozen" Charles River.
They get 1600's on their SATs, then they wash up in Scituate.
Too bad it's never Chomsky.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:42:54 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(massgopguy)
To: Brad Cloven
Those who can't, teach. And those who can't teach will publish and gain tenure.
To: rollo tomasi
I studied English at the Grad Level and all those names were on my reading list.
Though you have to admit Adorno's 'There is no poetry after Auschwitz' is one of the 20th century's best aphorisms. Terse and chilling.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:46:28 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Mudcat
some extremely intelligent, highly accomplished people in this world are complete morons outside of their very specific fields of endeavor. You said it. I work for a law firm. Need I say more?
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:47:13 PM PST
by
stanz
(Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
Intelligent and educated are not neccesarily the same thing.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:48:09 PM PST
by
Trampled by Lambs
("Making Al Gore regret inventing the internet, one post at a time")
To: Borges
All the really good philosophical thinking was done by the end of the 18th Century.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:48:10 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:48:42 PM PST
by
jdm
(Stockhausen, Kagel, Xenakis -- world capitals or avant-garde composers?)
To: Ramonan
I've spent plenty of years in acadamia on the science and engineering side where most professors are in fact quite conservative. The title should read "Why the pseudo intelligent left who've infested the soft sciences and liberal arts think they're so smart".
To: Ramonan
What a crock, they are liberal because they are socialists. They aren't so intelligent if they can't see that it has never worked primarily because it is against human nature.
To: Mase
And those who can't be guidance counselors, there's always the school psychologist.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:49:01 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: My2Cents
Schopenhauer and Nietzche were great writers and thinkers even if their work has led to some unpleasant ends. But any great thinker can lay claim to such. 18th century philophy led to communism.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:50:10 PM PST
by
Borges
To: SpaceBar
in acadamia on the science and engineering side where most professors are in fact quite conservativeThat's because they deal with real world laws and principles, and tangible results.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:50:19 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: Ramonan
For us stupid folks (hyuck) out here, I want to know one thing that is attractive about the liberal agenda? Is the choice to kill one's own offspring? Is it being overtaxed? What is it?
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:50:40 PM PST
by
HungarianGypsy
(We are the pirates who don't do anything....)
To: kkindt
The reason most faculty are liberal is because the faculty that has been liberal for generations are the ones who pick new faculty. Many thanks for your excellent post. I attended one of the most leftist colleges in the US back in the 70's and remember well the rigid enforcement of many forms of orthodoxy through the school, including Skinnerian behaviorism in the Psych department and Keynesian theory in Econ. This continued commitment to orthodoxy in academia is having a impact on quality, as in the case of Mary Habek, one of the best young military historians around, who was recently denied tenure by Yale.
Institutions of learning which do not permit any true competition of ideas are in very real danger of losing their reason for existence.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:51:45 PM PST
by
macbee
("Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte)
To: laotzu
"the transfer of society's wealth"Great catch!
I have been exposed to this BS for so long it sailed right by me.
Universally, the validation of a true liberal is the unshakeable faith in the conviction that both "government" and "society" has wealth, or worth or intelligence. Keeping that faith allows less guilt to steal the wealth from the individuals who actually earn and hold wealth and property.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:51:54 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
To: jdege
"Actually, liberal professors seem to gravitate to fields where it's very difficult to demonstrate that they are incompetents."
Not necessarily true. In my experience, the hard sciences (math, physics, chemistry) have as many liberals as the social sciences. Engineering is another matter altogether, however.
To: Borges
I should correct that: I meant 17th Century philosophers (e.g., Locke). Hegel being an example of 18th Century philosophers.
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posted on
12/03/2004 1:52:56 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
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