Why do many universities try to brainwash students with political liberalism points of view?

Question

Why are Conservative points of view frowned upon and belittled by university faculty?

Answer 1

Because universities are filled with teachers that are victims of society. Those who can't, teach - and those who can't are also jealous of those who can. Liberals are not open-minded as they claim to be. They are only open to those that agree with them.......believe me, I am a conservative with a degree in THEATRE......not an easy thing to do. Plus, I went to school at CU Boulder for a few semesters (which was as much as I could stand of that liberal horse s***).

Answer 2

Political view points change as society and needs change. Today women in the US vote with men side by side. African American are making strides ( Rice, Powell). I am sure somebody raised the same question you have a hundred years ago. Remember some guy even dared raised the point the the earth may be round?

The university is a forum for our young people to examine what is now and what can be in the future without fear of reprisal. Some day, these forward thinking young people are going to be the driving force of our nation. On the other hand, China hung on to the old Confucious teachings for centries and suffered the consequence. It is only recently they recognize that old virtues may be our herritage but society must adapt to new ideas in order to evolve.

Answer 3

Universities have done this since the beginning of Universities. Then Most of the students get out into real life and realize what dickheads those idiot professors really were. Academia is more concerned about their tenure than anything else. The competition is so tough, because the stakes are so low.

Answer 4

Liberals have infiltrated and taken over education in this country at ALL levels. They have to push their ideology on young minds in order for it to succeed.

Too bad for them that when MOST people reach a certain age they realize that the liberal ideology is just hollow socialist America hating crap.

I mean look at Johnslat's response. They can throw all kinds of "facts" and figures at you to prove their point. They just can't seem to open their eyes and actually see what is going on.

Hey Johnslat - Take a stroll on ANY college campus in the United States. OOps your entire rant has just been mooted.

Sorry

Answer 5

you relatively have confidence that uk college teachers have extremist left-wing perspectives? Goodness knows what universities you're linked with, yet i will promise you that those i be responsive to roughly (I incredibly have contacts with an historic foundation, a pink-brick, a Sixties 'new' college and between the present crop of ex-tech faculties and so on) have the popular combination of remarkable-wing, centrist, left-wing, apolitical. in case you haven't any longer understood the theory that equality skill equality, despite if we are conversing center classification/working classification, black/white, adult males/women, immediately/gay, then you relatively have not relatively grasped what the Labour social gathering became shaped for. and that i deeply resent you implying that concern-free Labour supporters, despite if working classification or no longer by utilising self-definition, do no longer care relating to the area of ethnic minorities and immigrants. be careful who you insult.

Answer 6

The answer to that is simple, and quite obvious to most. University communities and faculty enjoy high concentrations of extremely intelligent, well-educated people.

Just maybe you should try listening to them with an open mind?

Answer 7

Because universities are about open minds, not narrow ones.
Playing follow the leader is a kids game, not one played at the university level.

Answer 8

If they taught the conservative point of view in class it would only last 5 minutes. Read the bible, do whatever the president tells you to do no matter what, don't think for yourself. Class dismissed.

Answer 9

Well, it seems that only Conservatives are brainwashable, since they are the ones doing the complaining. Weak minded fools... you will unlearn the power of the dark side!

Answer 10

Well, I could be a wise guy and give an answer like this:

Because well-educated people such as university faculty members are much too smart to buy into "conservative points of view"

But you're begging the question to begin with. Do you have any PROOF that universities have a "liberal bias?"

"Lies, damned lies and the myth of academic "liberal" bias.
I have no idea how I missed this but a delightful "American Prospect" article from back in December of 2002 puts the lie to the standard right-wing wanker party line of massively disproportionate (for you wankers, "really, like, large") liberal representation on academic faculties.

As we all know (and by "know" I mean that the right-wing wankerverse has lied about it for years), the ideological composition of your average academic faculty is ridiculously skewed to the left. And we "know" this because, of course, the right have carefully and methodically documented this, via meticulous and scrupulously fair surveys and sampling.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I still crack me up.

Apparently, as with almost everything else emanating from the right these days (and, yes, I'm looking at you, Prof. Reisman), this claim is pure myth, as author Martin Plissner explains:

As often happens in Washington, the matter began at a think tank. The right-of-center American Enterprise Institute (AEI), in the August cover story of its American Enterprise magazine, claimed documentation beyond dispute of the left-wing hammerlock on American faculties. AE's editor-in-chief, William Zinsmeister, in league with David Horowitz (best known for his ads in college newspapers calling on black Americans to show "gratitude" for all that white Americans have done for them) of the conservative Center for the Study of Popular Culture, sent student volunteers to boards of election to search out the party registrations of 1,843 college teachers at 21 institutions. For the cover story, Democrats, Greens and "Working Family" registrants were lumped under "L" for "parties of the left"; Republicans and Libertarians, meanwhile, were filed under "R" for "parties of the right." (Independents, who would seem under Zinsmeister's labeling scheme to merit a "C" for "centrist," were ignored.) The overall ratio of L's to R's reflected in the story's bar graphs was dramatic: 11-to-1...

At none of the campuses -- which ran the gamut from Harvard, Brown, Stanford and Cornell universities to 10 state schools and a smattering of smaller colleges -- did the parties of the left prevail by a ratio of less than 6-to-1. At 86 percent liberal on the Zinsmeister scale, the University of Texas at Austin (on whose board appointees of George W. Bush still reign) trailed by only a tad the University of California, Berkeley (91 percent liberal).


Wow! Proof positive of overwhelming ideological bias in academia! Yes, that certainly is the smoking gun, isn't it? But wait! What's this?

The findings look pretty compelling -- but not when you look at them closely. In the University of Texas sample, for example, 28 of the 94 teachers came from women's studies -- not exactly a highlight of any school's core curriculum or a likely cross section of its faculty. At the same time, none of the 94 was from the university's huge schools of engineering, business, law or medicine -- or from any of the sciences. At Cornell University, it's the same story: 166 L's by the AE bar graphs, and only 6 R's. But not one faculty member in the entire sample taught in the engineering, business, medicine or law schools, or in any of the sciences. Thirty-three, on the other hand, were in women's studies -- more than any subject, save for English.

Oh. But surely that was an anomaly. Perhaps (as Republicans love to suggest these days) the result of an "over-zealous" assistant? Sadly, no.

The methodology employed is similarly slapdash at the other chosen campuses. Harvard's faculty of more than 2,000 is represented by 52 members from just three academic disciplines, all in the social sciences. More than half of the University of California, Los Angeles sample comes from just two disciplines: history and, once again, women's studies.

So, ridiculously-biased sampling. How thoroughly ... Horowitzian. But it does give one pause for a simple thought: If conservatives are dishonest in relation to simple statistics, would you want one as a professor?