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Date Posted: 06:32:02 10/15/03 Wed
Author: Josh
Subject: Re: To propose a theory
In reply to: Tim Koch 's message, "Re: To propose a theory" on 22:37:03 10/14/03 Tue

it was great - thanks for the input

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[> [> Re: To propose a theory -- Brad Gerdin, 23:20:20 10/18/03 Sat

Can you believe it, this is the first time I've ever posted on the forum? Crazy isn't it?? Well, Steve pointed out this question of Josh's and it really got me thinking. I'm in a politics course right now so we've been talking a lot about this stuff and I just read a book that talks specificly about this question. I thought Josh would like to hear it. The book by the way is called Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza.

"Consider Harvard's black studies program. Its spectrum of opinions ranges from liberal to radical-left. There are no conservatives in the department. Is this because there are no conservative academics good enough for Harvard? Not at all. Thomas Sowell at the Hoover Institution has arguably produced more original work than half of Harvard's black studies department. Some of the liberals at Harvard are utterly mediocre figures who would be teaching at a community colleges if they weren't liberal and they weren't black. Sowell, too, is an African American, but he is the wrong kind of African American. Despite his prodigious scholarship, he falls outside the range of acceptable opinion in those quarters.

So part of the reason for the liberal bias in academia-especially in the humanities and social sciences-is that the academy reflects a temperamental and ideological self-selection at work. But there is a second reason why professors, as a group, tend to be liberal. They have a visceral hostility to capitalisn, one of the reasons why so many once found themselves attracted to Marxism (and some are still). Not that they find Marx's theories about surplus value or his predictions about the future to be particularly convincing. They turn to Marxism as a vehicle for expressing their animus toward capitalism."

(That last comment was mainly for Josh to show you how messed up some liberals acutally are.)

Anyway, I think that sums up your question pretty well. The thing is that most liberals go into academia type of feilds while most conservatives go into more business type of feilds. I can't really explain it, it's just what happens.

And following off of Tim's statement, I do think that there are either liberals or conservatives. People aren't always way right or way left. There is a lot of middle ground. That is where most of the people in today's world are. You can hold some liberals ideals and some conservative ideals. Frankly, that is where I am at. I see myself as a moderate conservative if you want a specific classifacation. And if you want to chat, I'll tell you where I see you at. I hope this helps you out.


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