Diversity at the university
Political diversity, that is:
There are more than ten Democrats for every one Republican among elite professors at America’s top liberal arts colleges, a new study found. Worse, Democrats outnumber Republicans by 70 to 1 in religion departments, and that wasn’t the worst disparity.
Mitchell Langbert, an associate professor of business management at Brooklyn College, examined the party affiliations of 8,688 tenure-track, Ph.D.-holding professors at 51 of the top 60 liberal arts colleges in U.S. News and World Report’s 2017 rankings, and found that there were 10.4 times as many Democrats as Republicans. This sample proved far from complete, since 37.8 percent of professors are either not registered to vote or not registered with a specific party, but the study did show a rough litmus test of political opinion at top colleges…
Worse, 39 percent of the colleges he surveyed had not one Republican on the faculty. The political registration in the remaining 61 percent proved slightly more than zero but nevertheless “absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation and in favor of Democratic affiliation.” At Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. ”” ranked number 1 by U.S. News and World Report ”” Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 132 to one.
“Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference,” Langbert reported.
It didn’t used to be that way. But that’s the way it is now, and the trend really got going in the 1990s. A little while ago I saw a video in which Jonathan Haidt described the reasons:
Here’s another excellent Haidt video on the subject of universities’ lack of diversity of political thought:
And should there be a right-of center member of the faculty…then:
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/who-is-jordan-peterson-favorite-figure-of-the-alt-right-1221615171523
Twould appear that “Character Assassination” is the name of the game.
And anyone can be a target.
Barry Meislin: I’m going to Denver tomorrow night to hear Dr. Peterson. It’s as close to a pilgrimage as I’ll ever get. If I get a chance, I’ll ask him for his response to this.
The Left does not realize that their deranged attempts at character assassination are not only futile, they make the rest of us stronger.
“…stronger.”
I certainly hope you’re right. (And I wish I could be as certain about it as you….)
Enjoy very much that lecture!
See what happens when people actually work at purging their enemies? It works.
But the problem is the backlash.
They have to be able to control that.
And to control that, they have to become ever more ruthless.
It may work in an autocracy/thuggocracy.
But one hopes that it won’t gain much traction here, in spite of everything.
The DS has planned it so that the backlash will go on white professors, black nobles like Jackson, SJWhores, and various other Republican establishment sorts.
The backlash won’t reach the DS since it is designed to peter out in inter factional civil war. When the US is in CW2, people won’t have the energy to invade Canada or Mexico or fight the Deep State or the Islamic Jihad any more. That may be intentional.
It has worked before in the US of A. I don’t see any reason why the DS is weak or incompetent enough to fail to work it again here. I linked the Kansas border war and other things preceding CW1, in the newer thread. There’s the citation and evidence.
I am so grateful that I never belonged to a tribe. I went to a small Catholic school, but my neighborhood friends and family were of many different religions. I believed Cronkite on Viet Nam, but I had Christmas dinner with an aunt and uncle whose son was serving there. I couldn’t go over to the rabid protester side. My friends in college were from all sorts of backgrounds. Then when I moved to Philly and worked for the welfare department, I worked with all sorts of black colleagues who exposed me to far more than the Leonard Bernstein crew ever saw. I was attracted to feminism, but I couldn’t stand it when they acted as though my aunts and great aunts were oppressed idiots because they were homemakers.
Even today, when I visit other countries, I like to visit local grocery stores to see what the average people buy and eat. I have always been much more interested in learning about others than in fitting in to a group.
And right on cue:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/the-media-can-be-ideologically-diverse-without-conservatives.html
That’s an amazing article.
It’s pure parody…
Except it isn’t.
Absolutely amazing.
What seems to be happening on too many university campuses and other bastions of liberal thought is that all these supremely intelligent, sensitive, caring people are having a collective “Pauline Kael” moment (AKA, a Pauline Kael panic attack, a P. K. breakdown).
They “don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon”—er, Trump.
And therefore, it’s inconceivable that Nixon—er, Trump—could have been elected.
Simply not possible.
And therefore, RUSSIA!! COLLUSION!! Etc. (Or a Jill Stein-inspired recount, heh….)
It all kinda makes sense… (Doesn’t it? Kinda?)
Diversity…from academia to SNL:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/05/07/joe-piscopo-blasts-stormy-daniels-on-snl-joins-alums-critical-left-leaning-shows-trump-treatment.html
I am, in about a year, to retire from one of those top 60, New England private “liberal arts” colleges. I put the “liberal arts” in quotes because it stopped being such about 20 years ago, which coincides with Haidt’s timeline quite well. I was probably not counted in the R vs D survey as I am a registered I, but certainly still fit in the conservative/very left ratio. For the school I work the ratio would be closer to 160 to 5, as I know who those 5 are.
The environment is certainly toxic. EVERY college event always has to have some jibe at Trump, conservative, republicans, etc just to reinforce the orthodoxy and keep the rabble in line. I’m not a historian but I imagine it’s not all that different from the the Catholic church at the time of the Inquisition.
I’ve tried to fight the fight, to the detriment of my salary, and general feeling of well-being while at my job, but I give up. Send your kids to state schools, they are a bit better, but not by much. Send them to trade schools….anything but private liberal arts colleges….they need to die out.
Barry Meislin,
Regarding the Pauline Kael moment. I think it is an apt description, however, there is one fundamental difference. Kael fully recognized and admitted that she lived in a rarified world. The currently afflicted see themselves as living in the real world.
More’s the pity.
I’ve tried to fight the fight, to the detriment of my salary, and general feeling of well-being while at my job, but I give up.
The online world has many private tutor positions open. You might want to think about it, as your credentials would still command respect, if not an equal salary, via online private tutoring using a white board.
CapnRusty Says:
May 7th, 2018 at 10:59 am
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The Left does not realize that their deranged attempts at character assassination are not only futile, they make the rest of us stronger.
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https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/is-robert-mueller-destroying-the-democratic-party/
“Like a crackhead addicted to the next puff, Democrats and their media allies have spent most of the last sixteen months fixated on whether Trump somehow, some way, colluded with Putin. Meanwhile, a zillion issues slipped by, some important, others less so, but the Democrats barely weighed in on anything, other than to whine about Trump.
What a dumb mistake. And it was compounded by the assumption that the public agreed with them, which was true for a while, to some extent, but has now worn surpassingly thin.
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So Mueller may be, in the end, the Democrats’ best bet. But he is also their béªte noir. He is the man of supposed great moral rectitude who promised to rid them of the obvious injustice of the last election. Unfortunately, Mueller turned out to be an extreme moral narcissist who, consciously or not, led the Democratic Party down a primrose path of impeachment that could never happen and would inflate (slowly, but still…) Trump’s poll numbers while assuring him a second term and giving plenty of cannon fodder to Republican congressional candidates once embarrassed by the president. “
T Says:
May 7th, 2018 at 4:15 pm
And right on cue:
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I totally loved this graf.
Can we all say “clueless?”
“Magazines like The Atlantic, and op-ed pages like the New York Times’, have long aimed to host a dialogue that represents the major intellectual currents on both sides of aisle – while upholding fundamental principles of civility, good faith, and respect for the equal dignity of all human beings (regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender).”
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IF this is what they were aiming at, they certainly haven’t hit the target.
Maybe the NRA could help them with that.
Is Hillary in Jail yet?
I seem to remember Trum talking about that. What was that again?
Aesopfan @8:47 pm above quotes the following line from the article:
“. . . upholding fundamental principles of civility, good faith, and respect for the equal dignity of all human beings (regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender).”</b
“Race, ethnicity or gender” but not differences of ideological, political, or economic persuasion. That’s no accidental omission.
Organizations which deny basic US citizen rights should not be given special tax advantages.
The indoctrination should not get federal loans; the schools should not be recognized as non-political.
The rot starts in K-12, tho, and we need vouchers with Parental Choice to break out of the gov’t school indoctrination centers. Needs to be a higher priority, but Reps should stop supporting anti-Free Speech schools.
“Is Robert Mueller destroying the Democratic Party?”
I’ve always been of the opinion that it was Obama who, basically, destroyed it.
And then Hillary kind of kicked over what was left….
(But then, it also seems to me that had it not been for Bernie Sanders—to whom one must be eternally grateful, at least for this—and, of course, Hillary herself(!!), then the latter may have indeed achieved her Destiny…. Yes, a contradiction. One will never know….)
Be that as it may, according to this line of reasoning, there’s not much left for Mueller to trash. Even so (if I were to be perfectly honest), alas, there’s still quite a bit out there; since delusions die very slowly, especially, it would appear, when laced with intense hatred.
And there’s always the Narrative. The blessed Narrative….
What I find of particular interest is that the Democratic Party is for all intents and purposes a one-trick pony (though they play that trick exceeding well): Jonathan Gruber’s lies played to a “stupid” American public and amplified by the MSM; Ben Rhodes carefully crafted “echo chamber” (amplified by the MSM) successfully drowning out any opposition to the “deal” with Iran; and the master of them all—Obama’s perfectly modulated, velvety-voiced deception after deception, likewise amplified by a most sympathetic media.
And now the grand apotheosis—absolutely religious in its pursuit and appropriately Byzantine: the Mueller “Investigation” (though it would be more accurate to call it the Mueller “Inquisition”).
We’re currently seeing the same trick—from the exact same playbook—regarding B. Netanyahu’s latest allegations of Iranian duplicity brought on by the Mossad’s capture of innumerable, secret Iranian documents. First, it was dismissed as “nothing new” or “nothing relevant”. Then, it was labeled as an Israeli (and Trumpian, of course) “fabrication”.
Currently, “leaks” from certain “unnamed—and unsubstantiated—sources” (at least as described by “The Guardian”) have charged that the same Israeli investigative company that was hired by Harvey Weinstein(!) to spread dirt on his accusers—yes, the same—was hired by [fill in the blank] to spread dirt on Obama officials who were trying, at the time, to persuade Americans to support the so-called “JCPOA” with Iran.
Israeli company. Get it? (Maybe they should haul out a “dossier” to wave around?)
Personally, I don’t know. Maybe the allegations are true; maybe they’re not. (The company alleged to have tried to defame those Obama officials has denied the charges—but then, they would deny them, wouldn’t they….)
But, in true hardball fashion, these allegations don’t have to be true. They just have to be made and tossed out into the “arena of public opinion” (where they can be picked up by a compliant “echo chamber” and reverberate around the globe).
Yes, reverberate and echo so as to defame the JCPOA’s opponents and thus “protect” the framers and designers of the Obama Administration’s utter capitulation to the Islamic Republic of Iran from those who would try to malign it and end it (or modify it)—i.e., from the Trumpians “wedded”, as it were, to Bibi and the Zionist “war-mongers”, who were, similarly, previously, attacked by the Obama administration for expressing deep reservations about the administration’s utter capitulation to Iran
Moreover, this defensive “attack” has an added, creatively sly dimension: the Zionists are now wedded to that slimeball Harvey Weinstein (via the same compromised Israeli company that has been alleged to attack the Obama administration officials), creating the impression that those nefarious forces who are currently trying to take down the JCPOA are the same as those who supported Weinstein’s “war” on the “#meetoo” movement.
Could it be true. But doesn’t have to be.
The damage is done.
“Could it be true…” should be, “Could be true….”
Interesting post by Dr. Richard Landes (especially the responses and comments) on the current state of “the University” (with emphasis on the Humanities):
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2018/04/18/two-articles-tell-a-sad-tale-of-misguided-deconstruction-and-own-goal-behavior/
Barry Meislin,
“The Mueller Inquisition.” Accurate and a good call.
I believe it was Canadian who wrote What is the opposite of diversity? university