The liberal bias is well-known, but rarely discussed by academics. Universities, just like the press, should be havens for rigorous and relentless truth-seekers.
Unfortunately, the universities and the press have been hijacked by those who pursue knowledge with an open mind, as long as the viewpoint reflects the agenda.
In Universities, there are certain opinions one cannot have without being marginalized. If one dares to question the "scientific consensus" of man-made global warming, if one is pro-life, or if one simply asks the question, "What if there is a God?", he or she is quietly, but forcefully, shunned.
As cynically stated in a recent article at ChicagoNow,
"Progressives are all for diversity, especially on college campuses, except when diversity requires a variety of views. Namely, if you're conservative, don't apply for a faculty job or expect a promotion."
In an article soon to be published in the peer-reviewed journal, "Perspectives on Psychological Science," Psychologists Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers only confirm what any conservative academic knows too well, there is discrimination against conservatives on campus. The only "shocking" thing about this study is only that it is allowed to be published.
A Washington Times article discusses this unsurprising finding in the field of social psychology which determined,
"In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues."
The survey questions were "blatant," so the researchers were surprised that the academics were so open about their discrimination. They said, "Usually you have to be pretty tricky to get people to say they'd discriminate against minorities." One respondent wrote in that if department members "could figure out who was a conservative, they would be sure not to hire them."
Conservatives on campus, including the students, are well aware of the liberal bias and simply keep their mouths shut. If they ask questions from their conservative perspective, they are mocked and vilified... so they learn. The brilliant documentary "Expelled" spells it out—if one goes against the consensus, one can say goodbye to academia.
Watch the Trailer for "Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed" by Ben Stein:
The article continues to say, "As offensive as it may seem to many social psychologists," Mr. Inbar and Mr. Lammers write, "believing that abortion is murder does not mean that one cannot do excellent research."
How generous of them.
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Probably saying that there is nothing here, even though this post is new but it is not exhaustive.
Example. Pontoon. Derives from Latin Pont (Bridge). So a pontoon is a bridge of some kind, in this case a floating bridge. The meaning has morphed some over the years, but the idea of a bridge is still there.
We give The Romans far too much credit.
Example: Carpenter (polysyllabic) is from Latin. Housewright (two monosyllabic words) is derived from Hebrew. Both mean the same thing, just with two different origins.
Compare Welsh and Hebrew stripped of all modernisms, and extremely often they are the same and can be mutually understood, even though when written there is no similarity at all.
Hebrew gets its name from its progenitor, Eber, thousands of years ago, making Hebrew one of the oldest languages. Other words derived from Eber include Iberia (Spain & Portugal, also a Caucasian region), Hibernia (Ireland), Hebrides (Islands), Eboracum (York), and innumerable more.
In absolute numbers more come from Latin. In actual everyday usage, relatively few stem from Latin.
But you completely left out things like this:
To Massimo Pigliucci, chairman of the philosophy department at the City University of New York-Lehman College, the problem is not that conservatives face discrimination; it’s that any hint of political bias, whether conservative or liberal, necessarily flouts the standards of objectivity to which scholarship must adhere.
“It is to be expected that people would reject papers and grant proposals that smacked of clear ideological bias,” he says. Mr. Inbar and Mr. Lammers, he says, should have examined the extent of bias against liberal-leaning papers and grant proposals. If the degree of bias against liberals and conservatives is similar, maybe the data on discrimination against conservatives would not be so alarming after all.
"Harvey Mansfield, a conservative professor of government at Harvard University, argues that the anti-conservative bias is real and pronounced. He says conservatism is “just not a respectable position to hold” in the academy, where Republicans are caricatured as Fox News enthusiasts who listen to Rush Limbaugh."
"Beyond that, conservatives represent a distinct minority on college and university campuses. A 2007 report by sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons found that 80 percent of psychology professors at elite and non-elite universities are Democrats. Other studies reveal that 5 percent to 7 percent of faculty openly identify as Republicans. By contrast, about 20 percent of the general population are liberal and 40 percent are conservative.
Mr. Inbar and Mr. Lammers found that conservatives fear that revealing their political identity will have negative consequences. This is why New York University-based psychologist Jonathan Haidt, a self-described centrist, has compared the experience of being a conservative graduate student to being a closeted gay student in the 1980s."
What you have done is copy and paste and get paid for another persons work.
You have written nothing original. You are profitting from another persons hard work.
"The statistical representation of self-reported conservatives in the study may be largely moot as long as they are intimidated by a hostile, discriminatory majority. After all, a silent minority can hardly function as the kind of check on the prevailing assumptions of their liberal colleagues essential for robust academic debate.
“Because of the way the confirmation bias works,” Mr. Haidt says, referring to the pervasive psychological tendency to seek only supporting evidence for one’s beliefs, “you need people around who don’t start with the same bias. You need some non-liberals, and ideally some conservatives.”
pla·gia·rism
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noun
1.
an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
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a piece of writing or other work reflecting such unauthorized use or imitation: “These two manuscripts are clearly plagiarisms,†the editor said, tossing them angrily on the floor.
"profitting." P-r-o-f-i-t-i-n-g.
I wrote one about a former playboy model from the 70s being murdered and they put it in celebs.
That's frustrating.
A word that is often submitted in the middle of a discussion to distract from the concept that one does not wish to be a part of such discussion based on lack of understanding or agreement, so a quest begins to take the discussion in a different direction. Commonly used in political blogs. (Maybe not a true definition, but it seemed appropriate)
I am not saying there is no liberal bias, or that some professors will not penalize you if you disagree with the current trend in thinking. I experienced this myself. But the sweeping generalizations that are being made in these studies is absolute nonsense based on my experience. And it reeks of an anti-intellectual bias, just the opposite of the critical thinking these "experts" say they are championing.
remember conservative/liberal in Europe is a little more than a smidgen different than in the U.S.
Right here on Gather one of our recent conservative grads related some of what she experienced in school. If she expressed her views (at a state university) she was ridiculed by the profs and her grades reflected their displeasure. She learned to keep her mouth shut until she was off campus with groups of like-minded students.
Here's part of one:
Maloney interviews black professors who, because they question or oppose affirmative action, are often shunned by peers and considered "not really black" (a sentiment that's blatantly racist). Then there's a psychology professor, well-liked by her students and having an excellent academic record, whose colleagues found out she was a Republican (not because she brought her politics into the classroom - in fact, she was one of the few professors who didn't - but because her colleagues learned that her husband, a local businessman, belonged to some Republican commerce committee). Her department began to harass her by having her office constantly moved around and by messing up her schedule, and they informed her that she would not have been hired had they known she was a Republican. She was removed as department chair, her family received threats, and a swastika was burned on her lawn.
I cannot, for the Life of me, contain myself when I hear someone speaking of the sacrifices they make in order to put their future Children through University...
Even the "adults" are stupid, ignorant, and brainwashed..."Every Child must go to College,"and they immediately subscribe...they have no idea what they do...and neither can they be told...
1) if you don't need that piece of paper to get the job you want OR
2) if you don't need the discipline to learn what you want to learn
YOU DON'T NEED TO ATTEND A COLLEGE OR A UNIVERSITY.
If it hasn't already been posted.
Indoctrinate U
In grade school and high school I did get more conservative bias in textbooks. The texts took the approach that everything the US had ever done was absolutely great. It's hard to believe that, for example, Manifest Destiny could be taken seriously or that the US took the morally superior side in WWI.
I went to a focus group for those interested in grounded theory - I remember saying that I like the idea of being objective, ie, allowing the results to speak for themselves. One woman looked a bit horrified and said, "Well, we can never completely remove our personal agendas". I was taken aback by that, while I guess she has a point, shouldn't we at least try to be objective?
Good and Evil, no matter that you wish them away, cannot exist in the same House. Darkness hates the Light. Where you find the One, neither will the Other exist.
The theft of a Mans Freedom, both Physically and Intellectually, is an unacceptable Evil...and has no room for "compromise."
...whether in the Halls of Congress, or within the Walls of the House of Man.
A few of us sem to be picking up on a similar theme here. Liberal bigots