Why are college professors so liberal?
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Professors and teachers are usually liberal. I know this because I have several teachers in the family and know several who are liberal. They are liberal because they get paid more by the government to be so. \n\nJust because they go to college and have PHD doesn't mean they are common sense smarter. I heard one professor over the radio last week  talking about how white people can help the black people by committing suicide. He had written several books about it (which is why he was asked about it). He has taught in one college for over a decade. \n\nProfessors teach knowlege, their not even supposed to teach their opinions. But they do if they're liberal, conservitive teachers however, get fired if they do.\n\nExample: Look at Communism, theoredicly it makes sense, from what I've read of it. Historicly, it has always failed. People are greedy, which makes communism fail.\nProfessors learn alot about and teach alot of knowledge, they should leave it there.
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Liberals hate Conservatives because Conservatives know the difference between right and wrong and call out Liberals on their actions. No one likes to be told that they are wrong or what they are doing is wrong.\n\nAs a Conservative, I get aggrivated when Liberals think they know all of life's answers and they act like intellectuals when actually they are not very smart.
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A lot of people dislike Liberals because they have ideas that are not based specifically around faith and religion. Some people also think that just because they are not as conservitive that they will make decisions too quick and make a mess of the world. People just figure, "Better be conservitive and safe then liberal and on edge and sorry!"
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Because liberals are mostly gay.\nOr they are not really sure of their true Gender.\nThis can be a long drawn out answer, but I will cut an paste an email I just got.\n\nFor those who say they are LIBERAL...\n\nDo you believe the following?\n\nStandards for admissions to universities, fire departments, etc. should be lowered for people of color. \nBilingual education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion in English, is good for them and for America. \nMurderers should never be put to death. \nDuring the Cold War, America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze. \nColleges should not allow ROTC programs. \nIt was wrong to wage war against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. \nPoor parents should not be allowed to have vouchers to send their children to private schools. \nIt is good that trial lawyers and teachers unions are the two biggest contributors to the Democratic Party. \nMarriage should be redefined from male-female to any two people. \nA married couple should not have more of a right to adopt a child than two men or two women. \nThe Boy Scouts should not be allowed to use parks or any other public places and should be prohibited from using churches and synagogues for their meetings. \nThe present high tax rates are good. \nSpeech codes on college campuses are good and American values are bad. \nThe Israelis and Palestinians are morally equivalent. \nThe United Nations is a moral force for good in the world, and therefore America should be subservient to it and such international institutions as a world court. \nIt is good that colleges have dropped hundreds of men's sports teams in order to meet gender-based quotas. \nNo abortions can be labeled immoral. \nRestaurants should be prohibited by law from allowing customers to choose between a smoking and a non-smoking section. \nHigh schools should make condoms available to students and teach them how to use them. \nRacial profiling for terrorists is wrong -- a white American grandmother should as likely be searched as a Saudi young male. \nRacism and poverty -- not a lack of fathers and a crisis of values -- are the primary causes of violent crime in the inner city. \nIt is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, "God bless you" at their graduation. \nNo culture is morally superior to any other. \nThose are all liberal positions. How many of them do you hold?
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If he is a tenured professor he can openly express his "academic views" on anything, however questionable, without much fear of reprisal.  This is usually part of "intellectual freedom" and "dialogue" (not the constitutional right to Free Speech).\n\nIf you find his opinions truly offensive, you might try scheduling a meeting with the Chair of his academic department or the Dean of the College.  Describe what he has said about Native Americans, liberals, and women, and make sure to recall how he singled you out.  They might be able to convince him to tone it down.  If he is not yet tenured the Dean will certainly be interested in knowing how irresponsible of a scholar your professor is.\n\nIf you feel that you have been unfairly treated, try going to the university Ombudsperson.  Most universities have an Ombudsperson to address student greivances.\n\nIn any case, there usually are a few academic firebrands and I hope that he hasn't alienated you too much from the study of history.  Best of luck --
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Excellent question and I bet that you will not get an intelligent answer.  If liberals were truly open minded you would have balanced political representation at all Colleges & Universities, instead of the typical 80 - 20% split that currently exisits.  If liberal were truly open minded they would not attack Christianity and defend it like they do other religions.  Liberals are the epitome of doulble standards.
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Yes, there a conservative scientists as well.  Not surprising, there are also apolitical scientists that just want to focus on science.
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Slow down slim.\nThey think the same about us.\nThey are like rats they are more scared of us then we are of them.\nThey get angry because they think "I'm liberal, I'm enlightened! why can't those brutish conservatives realize...."\nthey thik that being liberal makes them smart when in reality it is being smart that makes you conservative.
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i'm not surprised, i went on the link and its the post-standard ! a typically left leaning publication and was surprised too that this professor is also liberal and liberally educated ! wow, its nice to hear someone tell the truth for a change instead of using something to back up their agendas...thanks for the link.
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Because liberals, like most people, are ignorant when it comes their own political ideology. I believe a lot of liberals haven't really thought about their positions hard enough to see the inconsistency. \n\nThey don't like the idea of the government telling them who they can sleep with, but they have no problem with the government telling them who they can do business with, and under what terms. They don't like paying to promote certain religious positions with tax dollars, but don't see anything wrong with tax dollars going to support certain cultural or artistic positions (i.e. art subsidies).\n\nThough tangerine is partly right; conservatives are just as guilty of being hypocrites. You can't really argue that the state must regulate our behavior to make us "moral", but that it shouldn't regulate our behavior to make us "fair."
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Because in order to be a liberal...\n\nYou have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding. \n\nYou have to believe that the same public school idiot who isn't qualified to teach kids how to read, is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex. \n\nYou have to believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and doctors are overpaid. \n\nYou have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranians. \n\nYou have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the brilliance of the sun, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs. \n\nYou have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. \n\nYou have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but pasty, revisionist activists who've never been outside Seattle do. \n\nYou have to believe that self esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it. \n\nYou have to believe there was no art before federal funding. \n\nYou have to believe there was no housing before HUD. \n\nYou have to believe that you can support the troops by calling them baby killers and mocking them.\n\nYou have to believe the free market that gives us 500+ channels, can't deliver the quality that PBS does. \n\nYou have to believe that without a federal Department of Energy, there would be no gasoline or electricity. \n\nYou have to believe the NRA is bad, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution. \n\nYou have to believe that taxes are too low but ATM fees are too high. \n\nYou have to believe that Harriet Tubman, Cesar Chavez, and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than George Washington, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas A. Edison. \n\nYou have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas, affirmative action, and set-asides aren't. \n\nYou have to believe second-hand smoke is more dangerous than anthrax or sarin gas. \n\nYou have to believe that conservatives are racists, but that minorities couldn't make it without your help.\n\nYou have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.\n\nGive me a break.
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Yes it is but if you want to piss off you teacher who is probably a liberal.  Some stupid liberals are pleased with themselves every time they attack America because liberals hate America.
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Liberals don't respect the law of unintended consequences.  they are slow to see a dicator coming.  They adore creating classes of citizenship.  They flunk.\n\nConservatives, now, are a party that insists on using government to achieve RELIGIOUS goals.  They are the religious party.  They flunk.\n\nSo I'm a hard-currency, limited-government federalist and anti-utopian.  When Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were alive, this was called "conservatism."  In the 19th century, it was called "liberalism" and some people still call it "classical liberalism."  Nowadays, some are calling it being a "militant moderate."  At the root, it is "Lockean empiricism."
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One of the communist party's objectives in the middle 1960's was to infiltrate the American education system.  If you ask me they have succeeded.  Our education system is full of socialists and communist apologists.  They try to brainwash you by making you feel inferior if you challenge their ideas.  Unfortunately, many young Americans fall for their hogwash and carry those ideas on into maturity.  Thankfully, experience drives intelligent people towards the conservative perspective.  You know what they say, "if you are not a liberal when you are young then you have no heart and if you are not a conservative when you are old then you have no brain".
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because they are liberals !!!!! duh !
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Though I am not a liberal, I have found that wacko conservatives are more stubborn know it alls than are liberals. Personally, I think both are retarded, but that's just the opinion of a hard line moderate.
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I'm sorry but i no what a socialist and communist are and liberals are communists and socialists.....my really really liberal teacher called me a bigot and i asked if she knew what it was and she couldn't answer me....these types of remarks show just how clueless liberal really are!