Allegedly Leftist Professors

[Kurai Tsuki]

There are many people who think that college professors are predominantly leftists, but I think it’s important to be able to tell the difference between a true dissident and a liberal, such as many teachers indeed are. Most teachers I have had tended to be in favour of the American government, including a free-market-can-do-no-wrong libertarian teacher I had for a Mass Communications class.

A big factor in the labeling of teachers as leftist, I think, may be that conservatives often feel, or like to feel, like they are opposing something. Rather than act like they are in power, as they are, they would prefer to pretend that they are facing some sort of leftist majority in their country. And so it is not uncommon for them to make ridiculous comments like

“The American media loves Fidel Castro.”

“Political correctness reduces our freedom.”

“Colleges turn out leftists, especially political science courses.”

From listening to them you would think that colleges were filled with dissidents and they, the conservatives, were just innocent students trying to survive among them. But if my professors represent the leftist community of America, then I would hate to see what the real conservatives are like.

[DaCuBaN]

Interesting points, but what they say does have some grounding.


The American media loves Fidel Castro

Is complete rot. The US media detest Castro, but being organisations that thrive on contraversy, they like to use him to their own means.


Political correctness reduces our freedom

This is quite true... Everyone has said something out of turn before, and normally you get pinned for doing it. Although it's an infringement on your rights, this is not a bad thing. Since we've emphatically proved that we can't get a long, 'political correctness' means that at least noone can directly piss another off.


Colleges turn out leftists, especially political science courses

This quote I love. It can be quote easily refuted. For starters, It's highly unlikely that every political professor is a 'leftist', and the curriculum itself, although intended to be impartial, was put together by persons from the right. Yet students come out the other end beleiving that Communism is a better political/economic system.

This couldn't be because it's true could it?