96% of faculty and staff at Ivy League colleges that contributed to the 2012 presidential race donated to President Obama’s campaign, reveals a Campus Reform investigation compiled using numbers released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
96% of faculty and staff at Ivy League colleges that contributed to the 2012 presidential race donated to President Obama’s campaign, reveals a Campus Reform investigation compiled using numbers released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Universities… the rats nest of the communist stain that’s taken over a free country.
When the party ends, the first ones put into the cattle cars.
In totalitarian countries the universities are the hotbed of democratic resistance.
The intelligentsia don’t have core beliefs, they only know they want to appear different and therefor smarter than everyone else.
only 96%?…150% would be more believable, as most of those fools would be double dippers
The end result of Gramski’s “Long March Through the Institutions.”
Speaking of University indoctrination – here is a video of a mad professor.declaring Stalin killed no one
Speaking of University indoctrination – here is a video of a mad professor. declaring Stalin killed no one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hRPTZF5zSLQ
Surprised The “R” got anything?
Canada is the only sane place left on this rock.
There’s some pretty interesting voting irregularities that seem to fall always on the side of BHO. Odd that!!
This is the epicenter of the institutional left, home to those terrified of existence involving the conquering of nature. Their prime motivation is the furtherance of the proposition that the conquering of humanity is preferable. Their political scions have perfected the art of masking that proposition with a happy-face, making it attractive to the mindless.
‘Professors’ are narrow-minded juveniles in their politics, post graduate study encourages that kind of thinking because they end up studying a very narrow field for their PHD dissertation.
A few appear genuinely bright but probably go along to get along with the herd, the environment breeds cowardice.
If I managed to calculate that accurately in my head, the leftistas donated something slightly over $550 each, while the conservatives donated slightly more than $1,000 each.
That seems to fit with leftists normally being more generous with someone else’s money than they are with their own.
The 4% reactionary element must be identified and rooted out.
This proves the road to a PhD (or any other “expert” – a person who knows more and more about less and less until finally he knows everything about nothing.
doowleb @ 1:30, “Universities… the rats nest of the communist stain that’s taken over a free country.
When the party ends, the first ones put into the cattle cars.”
Well almost, as first they shoot current and potential opponents. Kulaks were loaded after they had complete control.
Hold on, Black Mamba; they know where my office is (because of the door with all of the politically incorrect quotations and articles). So far, they think I’m just being ironic.
One of the election pillars from the left is always education so more money to universities means more money for its profs.
It is a self serving vote no wonder it is 96%
I’m a right-winger and also hold a PhD.
Plain Highschool Diploma.
The original Rick at November 27, 2012 6:52 PM
“I’m a right-winger and also hold a PhD.
Plain Highschool Diploma.”
OUTSTANDING!
Can I use that without attribution?….just polite to ask…
sasquatch- For sure. After all I stole it from a friend of mine.
Of course, these people will congratulate themselves for being so smart. “See! All the educated (intelligent?) people voted for Obama!”
Of course, these people will congratulate themselves for being so smart. “See! All the educated (intelligent?) people voted for Obama!”
It’s interesting that the primitive branch of conservatism seems to have officially adopted ignorance as a value. The loathing of science, the rejection of critical thought, the contempt for education,the mockery of erudition – it all led to the hilarious spectacle of rich, educated, Republican presidential candidates desperately trying to make themselves look dumb enough to capture the hearts of a suspicious Tea Party electorate.
Meanwhile China and India are pouring billions into university development. And the West wonders why it’s losing economic ground…
In America today such an act would land you in jail for a year.
The left are the Man
my fault wrong thread. On this one they would vote for Stalin or Pol Pot. There minds are infested by a virus known as Uber Socialism.
@ Roseberry: ha ha they used to say the same thing about me. I would have people coming up to me and saying “you don’t seriously believe in cutting government spending/waste/size do you? or that Foreign Aid is causing more trouble than benefit in Africa.”
Oh yes oh yes I do. Shocked they were.
I swear, apart from one or two other logical thinkers, only the Economics guys were worth talking to.
The left will not be satisfied until 100% of the population votes liberal
(but then why hold election at all?)
and they have the nerve to call themselves defenders of democracy?
No, balbulican, the Western university system seems determined to institutionalise ignorance. Sometimes it takes an officially uneducated buffoon to point out the fact that the emperor is in the buff.
The West needs knowledge, wisdom, education and teachers. This is too important to leave up to the current education industry.
Whatever you do, Roseberry, don’t let them send you for sensitivity training. (Seriously, we must know people in common. One of the parental units used to have tenure in this town.)
blablulican – hey, aren’t you that guy everyone hates?
Scott, that’s a nicely constructed sound bite with a great quotable tag built in, but it doesn’t address my point – enshrining ignorance as a social value (bluff, manly common sense as opposed to hifalutin’ eddication, the Bible on creation as opposed to this here newfangled science, etc.) is self defeating, and other countries are not making that mistake.
Black Mamba: don’t think so, although that would be pretty cool. Cheers!
blabulican – Your condescension is based on a faulty premise. There are many highly educated, accomplished and credentialed conservatives. The fact that they are not present in much of academia relates more to an institutionally prejudiced and hostile environment as opposed to a function of intelligence.
Likewise, the primitive branch of liberals enshrine their ignorance of industry and the economy as a social value. The difference is that Obama didn’t even need to pander to the OWS demographic with attacks against Wall Street to win their vote.
blabulican – Your condescension is based on a faulty premise. There are many highly educated, accomplished and credentialed conservatives. The fact that they are not present in much of academia relates more to an institutionally prejudiced and hostile environment as opposed to a function of intelligence.
Likewise, the primitive branch of liberals enshrine their ignorance of industry and the economy as a social value. The difference is that Obama didn’t even need to pander to the OWS demographic with attacks against Wall Street to win their vote.
Blabulican
May I suggest you don’t believe your sides propaganda?
Someday you may learn the difference between smarts and intelligence. It is similar to the difference between doers and talkers.
(Why? Why would that be “cool”?)
RegAffairs: I’m quite aware of the number of educated and credentialed conservatives – probably just as many proportionally as any other wing of the political spectrum. The elites of the Republican party and the Democratic party are still scrambling to get their kids into Harvard or Yale. What I’m laughing at is the furious tribal dismissal of post secondary education as unnecessary and dangerous, and the hilarious scramble by rich, educated American politicians to look and sound like hicks to attract the Tea Party vote. Sorry, but they’re the ones showing condescension, not me.
“Someday you may learn the difference between smarts and intelligence.”
Heh. I’m in my sixties, have worked my whole life, and don’t have a university degree. I think I have that one figured out.
Black Mamba: well, as an accredited agent of Chaos, Commie agitator, apologist for all things leftist and evil, and secret minion of Soros, Satan, Obama, the Kremlin, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Masons, my job is raise the ire of all good people everywhere. If you’re willing to attest that “everybody” “hates” me, I’m probably in line for a promotion to the Fifth Circle, where they make those Christmas cakes everyone despises.
It’s interesting that the primitive branch of left-wing liberalism seems to have officially adopted ignorance as a value. The loathing of morals, the pretense of critical thought, the contempt for those without a “higher” education, the mockery of common sense – it all led to the sobering spectacle of rich, quasi educated, Democratic presidents cynically succeeding at making themselves look competent enough to capture the hearts of a slumbering electorate.
Meanwhile China and India are pouring billions into university development. And the West wonders why it’s losing economic ground…
Blabulican.
So what government teat do you fatten at?
Blabulican.
So what government teat do you fatten at?
Grant: heh. Cute try. But hey – stick with “common sense”, we’ll stick with education. No problem.
No, balbulican, the enshrinement of ignorance is fairly simple to expose; but it’s just not only where you see it. If 96% of professional academics support one political/philosophical/economic worldview, it indicates the presence of a cult. That freedom of thought and freedom of speech come under increasing attack in the very places they should be cherished, should cause alarm. It does cause alarm among wise and educated people, whether left-leaning or right-leaning.
When an idea is labeled “racist,” “sexist,” “homophobic,” or whatever the offence du jour, out of hand, without sustained argument against same idea, one is left not with knowledge and wisdom, but a cultish group-think. I believe there is plenty of empirical evidence to show that this is the case in many North American academic institutions at this time.
Excellent. By all means, flee them. Bluff common sense is all anyone really needs.
balbulican: do you mean Common Sense as in Thomas Reid or something less nuanced?
Considerably less nuanced, Scott. I have great respect for common sense grounded in honest observation and critical thought, schooled or unschooled. I have somewhat less respect for “common sense” when the term is used to exalt reiteration of a tribal bias.
Balbulican: heh. Cute try. But hey – stick with cookie cutter education, we’ll stick with what brought humanity to the dance. No problem.
Grant: I like Wilde’s definition of “parody” – a repetition of form with inferior content.
Balbulican: And I like Gasteyer’s – “parody is a celebration of a person’s specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery”. I wouldn’t go so far as to mock you. However, it is an interesting contrast; being endearingly entertained by how boringly derivitave you can be. 🙂
Bye-bye Balbulican, don’t forget to turn the lights out on the way out. 🙂