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2006-10-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Get educated, become Republican (despite the professors' best efforts)

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Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-09 11:29|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This shouts "REPUBLICANS SHOULD INVEST IN TAX CUTS"

Why is anyone suprised that talented people want to see less of the money they earned extorted from them by the state?

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-10-09 12:57|| 2006-10-09 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 TW - Yeah, the idea of my dough being sent to bald pony-tailed idiots does gall. But my worries over the impact college professors would have over my sons while at college went away after a few weeks. During one of the all-to infrequent calls home, I asked about the professors. My oldest stated "Their &%$#@!*&$ a$$holes Dad."

I'm so proud - (wipes tear)

Posted by GORT 2006-10-09 12:58|| 2006-10-09 12:58|| Front Page Top

#3 ~~Their~~ They're.

Sheesh

Posted by GORT 2006-10-09 13:00|| 2006-10-09 13:00|| Front Page Top

#4 &%$#@!*&$?

You have 2 characters there too many. ;-)

Posted by twobufour 2006-10-09 14:47|| 2006-10-09 14:47|| Front Page Top

#5 You spew nonsense all day to a captive audience and you will spawn two concequences (1) An ability to say what the teacher wants in order to get a good grade (2) critical thinking because at some point the nonsense will be obvious, thus making the rest of it suspect.

Critical thinking is all that I ask from our education system. Everything else is a bonus.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-10-09 16:06|| 2006-10-09 16:06|| Front Page Top

#6 I would tend to think that the real hysteric professors are in unmarketable disciplines like indian studies, sociology and similar crap.

In disciplines who lead to big bucks like engineering a) professors could be more conservative (otherwise they would be teaching a moonabat discipline) b) many of those disciplines don't lend well to indoctrination (eg maths, physics) and c) Pressure is greater both from alumni and university fpr professor really teaching instead of indoctrinating because ignorant and politicized students sell poorly in teh market and this affects univeristy's reputation and on the long term teacher's salary.

So I think the revenue effect is not so important for people becoming conservative than the vaccination effect. To take my own example after the Cambodian genocide I became very resentful against the people who had indoctrinated me and in addition were completely unrepentant of having supported the Khmer Rouge. Now I am a neocon.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-10-09 17:40|| 2006-10-09 17:40|| Front Page Top

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