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Your most memorable Liberal/Leftist College Professors
me ^ | 10/06/01 | me

Posted on 10/06/2001 1:37:49 AM PDT by FreedomFriend

I decided to post this topic because it has come to the attention of many people the injustice that the University System has wreaked havoc upon in regards to the propagandizing of news, events, and public tragedies.

Thus, we must start where a lot of this nonsense is conceived. That's right, the university system. It is in these institutions where many of the biggest anti-American, non-common sense individuals spew their garbage. Furthermore, it is in the University Professors where much of the root of the problem is manifested.

Thus, without further ado, tell me about some of your most liberal/leftist professors, and the ways that they revealed an absence of common sense and logic in their ideological rants.


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I'll start with a couple of mine.

My freshman year of college (1995), I had a professor known as Dr. Price. She was a boomer of around 48 years old with blonde hair and slightly above average looks. However, this was about the only pretty side she had, for early on in the quarter, I realized that she was liberal to the core. Her exteme ideology was revealed to the class the day she pulled out her "feminist guide to non-sexist language" papers. She passed them out diligently, and then she decided to go over the different words to the class. For example, she started with a spill about why we should be careful about using particular words, and how words have power in what they convey to the individual. She then went on to say the words. For example, she presented the class with the word, "mailman". She says that this represents male rule, and is discriminatory towards women, and thus in fairness, we should say, "letter carrier". She then went on to "landlord". Again, she said that such a word conveyed male dominance, and thus we should use the words, "property owner". There were many words and alternatives that she continued to give, and it was obvious that it was bothering the class. She continued, that is, until one of the girls in the class said, "we don't care". Other followed with similar words. You should have seen Dr. Price, for she was fuming. She was very upset by our lack of liberalism, and then she said, "well, let's just carry on. We're in college now, and we have to make sure that we use appropriate language". Again, voices coming from the class stated, "We don't care". This time she was very upset and she yelled, "Why is it that everytime I present something to you, you guys reject it". Obviously fuming, she stepped out of the class.

Aside from Dr. Price, I had another female professor who was liberal to the core. Her name I can't exactly recall, except that I remember her last name started with an H. She was a sociology professor of mine. Again, this occurred during my freshman year. One day, we were studying racism, prejudice, etc., and Dr. H stated that blacks cannot be racist, for racism can only be directed from a majority group, preferably white males, towards a minority group, namely blacks. The whole class was like, "how can blacks not be racist, when the dictionary does not make any distinction between races and their roles in racism". She stated, "well, I'm telling you the definition that is largely accepted throughout the academic world", or something to that effect. Again, the class pressured her, but it did not help, for she was too far lost into her flawed ideology.

These were two of my most liberal college professors. What about yours?

1 posted on 10/06/2001 1:37:49 AM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: FreedomFriend
I never thought of this before....but is it possible that liberals can't earn a living in any other occupation?

Oops...I forgot...Environmentalists !!!

2 posted on 10/06/2001 1:46:55 AM PDT by The Raven
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To: FreedomFriend
And journalists
3 posted on 10/06/2001 1:47:30 AM PDT by The Raven
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To: FreedomFriend
And DemonRAT Politicians, Terrorists, Lawyers, actors.....
4 posted on 10/06/2001 1:56:22 AM PDT by Free_at_last_-2001
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To: Free_at_last_-2001
and authors, PR firms, pundits...
5 posted on 10/06/2001 2:09:28 AM PDT by clee1
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To: FreedomFriend
I had a biology teacher my freshman year. George Dukakis came to our campus and we went to have a look. A friendly repub gave us some Bush signs to hold up...which we took to class. We showed up late since we watched all of Dukasis' nonsense.

The stringy haired troll of a teacher (who lived in Santa Cruz, go figure) looked at us and said "you're late. AND you have Bush signs. tramp.

6 posted on 10/06/2001 2:13:06 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
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To: FreedomFriend
I had a professor who complained the Palestinian terrorists were being "exterminated," and you could just hear the emotion in his voice. He was referring VERY SPECIFICALLY just to the terrorists, and not to Palestinians in general. He was whining about Israel's assassination policy. Apparently he gets real weepy when people attempting to blow up buses don't get to carry out their plans.

I also had a professor who put up pictures of George Bush and a Monkey on the overhead at the same time, to illustrate similarities between human emotions and their simian counterparts, but he was cool. I'd take a class taught by him again, in a heartbeat.

7 posted on 10/06/2001 2:18:15 AM PDT by xm177e2
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To: FreedomFriend
Mailman is nothing. We should also differentiate a garbageman from a garbagewoman (BTW, the most appropriate job title for "Dr." Price). WWII was en example of male dominance as well and so we should differentiate a German from a Gerwoman. But the ultimate case of dominance is an execution. For the sake of employment equality, a hangwoman or two should be hired someplace.
8 posted on 10/06/2001 2:24:24 AM PDT by globotrotter
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To: FreedomFriend
Had this 50 yr old hippie chick for my philosophy of Aesthetics class. Suffice to say she spent about 3 classes dealing with Plato, Aristotle, Kant (who is wonderous) and Hume......And then MONTHS on these postmodern critiques of Pee Wee Herman's show (I'M DEAD SERIOUS) how the Museums of NYC were capitalist racists and bunk like that. Sadly I really wasn't politically "astute" at the time so I really didn't raise a fuss. Ironically during the April IMF protests in DC. while all hell was breaking loose, I see her showing her kids around the streets pointing things out. To say I pitied her children is an understatement
9 posted on 10/06/2001 2:30:18 AM PDT by KantianBurke
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To: FreedomFriend
my last few professors before i graduated were a ball i loved my literary criticism teacher who was gay, and an adamant salesman of his own crappy books on oscar wilde and w.b. auden. it goes without saying that the four texts we "analyzed" during the term al had homosexual overtones... to top it all off, the greatest part was when proposition 22 (anti-gay mariiage bill) was passed in califonia, and i wrote a stinger essay in the school paper supporting it. luckly, i used a false name, because who should write a dissenting article against this but the same buffoon teacher aforementioned. i received a "b" for the course, and probably because my teacher did not know that the author was me. i love college.
10 posted on 10/06/2001 3:01:28 AM PDT by struggle
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To: FreedomFriend
We need a LIST!

I wish I could sponsor this effort, but I don't have the time or the skills needed, and I am out of the US.

But, what I have in mind is a website where people could post the names, address, phone numbers and contact information for every one of these "post-modern" neo-communist feminist "critical studies" a-holes in academia. The list could also include anecdotal or scholarly references to their worst offenses.

Someone might ask, "Wouldn't such a website have a chilling effect on the ability of these individuals to speak their minds?"

My response: "I sure as hell hope so!"

11 posted on 10/06/2001 3:09:33 AM PDT by John Valentine
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To: FreedomFriend
I'd like to take a liberty and tell about the opposite. I was a stupid hippie freak in the sixties, and regurgitated the fashionable quasi-marxist ideas in an essay exam to my conservative economics professor. Now, with the benefit of some years, I respect the "F-" he gave me more than all the "A"s I got from my other professors. He also gave extra credit if a student subscribed to the Wall Street Journal.
12 posted on 10/06/2001 3:17:28 AM PDT by SupplySider
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To: FreedomFriend
I went to college during the early to mid 1990s. When the Oklahoma City bombing happened, I had a history professor who blamed it squarely on the NRA. I had a sociology professor who was so far to the left that I soon began referring to her course as my "Hate Whitey" class.

The irony is that I entered college with fairly liberal beliefs. But the all-encompassing atmosphere of PC politics felt forced and illogical. I soon embraced the exact opposite of what my professors were indoctrinating me in. By the time I graduated, I had irreversibly moved to the right. Logic and rational thinking will do that to a person. And I have my college professors to thank for opening my eyes to their own misguided political beliefs.

13 posted on 10/06/2001 3:32:47 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: FreedomFriend
My political science professor was a German fellow who wanted in to a group of Marxists, but wasn't quite Marxist enough. Strange fellow, I actually got along with him because he allowed discourse and disagreement in his class. I disagreed with him all the time, but I have to give him credit - at least he didn't challenge my right to disagree.

Apart from that, in my courses on the functioning of Parliament, I had Ken Livingstone (now Mayor of my beloved London) as one of the instructors. They don't call the SOB "Red Ken" for nothing.

Regards, Ivan
14 posted on 10/06/2001 3:40:12 AM PDT by MadIvan
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My daughter went to college in Rhode Island. One of her profs wanted females to be known as "gyno-Americans."

I went to a large eastern university with campuses in the Far East and Europe to provide educational opportunities to people serving abroad. I had a political science professor who was an American living in England. He had left the U.S. because he thought the country was beyond salvation. He was a screaming leftist, a member of Britain's Race Relations Board and an indefatigable opponent of the Vietnam war. His lectures parroted the left's line of 1969-73. Almost all of his students were serving members of the Armed Forces or very recent veterans. To his credit, he allowed open discourse in his classes, and would often join us at the club after class for a quick drink. He had made an impression on me that I wasn't able to shake for many years. I have seen the light.

15 posted on 10/06/2001 4:36:42 AM PDT by Ax
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To: FreedomFriend
Am not sure if this fellow was the most liberal, but the incident I'm about to relate was the most infuriating one in a difficult time:

It was May, 1970, at the Univ. of Illinois, and right after Kent State.

One of my younger professors in Asian History started the class with the admonition to go out and join the protests. Class dismissed!

Boy was I mad!!

As the class quickly dispersed, I walked up the aisle and told him that his responsibility was to teach the darn class, he was being paid to do so by the taxpapers of the state, and if any students wanted to cut the class, that was their choice, with any consequences.

He looked surprised at this burst of logic, and even seemed to consider it, but nonetheless, it was too late, and we were already among the last in the room.

Subsequently, other, older history profs of mine were challenged by students to cancel classes, and they refused.

Some students left, but most stayed.

The memories of those tumultuous days will always be with me.

16 posted on 10/06/2001 5:55:13 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
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I had a literature professor who always wore the same pants. Always. As the semester progressed, one could see the grease stain on the knee, joined by the mustard splotch on the cuff, added to later by the icky spot on the back pocket!!

I was eating lunch in the student union with a black girl who was in my class when this loser sat down with us and launched into a long story about how he was having trouble with roaches in his apartment, and didn't she agree with tenants' rights?

My friend, who was from a solidly middle class family, looked at him with disgust and said, "My family has NEVER had problems with roaches, and we own our own home."

He scuttled away pretty quickly. Ha!

17 posted on 10/06/2001 6:14:14 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: FreedomFriend
I seem to have lucked out, and have had a fairly high proportion of conservative profs...I've held them deep in my hearts and have always tried to internalize their ways.

Not to say I didn't have liberal profs too, but I've done everything possible to purge them from memory.

18 posted on 10/06/2001 6:25:19 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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You have got to hear this one ...

I had a professor my freshman year who was a daughter of a Canadian diplomat. She told us she grew up in a mansion with servants, etc. Even tho she was Canadian, she taught at an American college and hated America. This bothered me.

At the end of the school year, she had a party for the class. Turns out she was a single mother of a 5 year old boy, a typical five year old who was excited by the crowd.

At some point everyone noticed him with a joint in his mouth, clumsily trying to light a match. My professor finally saw him and got hysterical. She ran over and screamed at him, "I told you not to play with matches!"

This is a true story. And to my mind, when I witnessed this happen, I concluded: people who hate America arent very bright people. Haters of America necessarily are incapable of ordering the importance of things.

19 posted on 10/06/2001 6:30:57 AM PDT by Urbane_Guerilla
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Here are 2 great stories. My soph. biology professor, after quoting texts from Al Gore's book that were used as references in our bio textbook, tells us at the end of class, "It is a beautiful day, so go sit on a bench and take it in, because when you have kids and describe a day like this to them, they will have no idea what you are talking about." Since we were all about 20 years old, and would have kids within 7 to 8 years, he really thought that by the year 2000 pollution and the Greenhouse effect would have put an end to beautiful summer days. This guy had several specials on the discovery channel BTW.

Had an anthro. prof who did alot of work with the last S. American tribe to never see white people. She reminisced about how sweet, and simple, yet superior these people were to us, and laughed with pure love of these people as she described how they almost killed her with bows and arrows because they thought she was a ghost.

She went onto call capitalism evil because a charity supplied this Tribe with wood burning ovens, FOR FREE mind you, yet the chairty made the opening to the oven only 1 foot and a 1/2 when this tribe cut their wood in two feet pieces. She said that proved that capitalism was insensitive and evil.

20 posted on 10/06/2001 6:31:43 AM PDT by Treeless Branch
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