Liberal Bias in Higher Ed?
The Radical Right Wing Kook Fringe (RRWKF) whines and complains incessantly about the supposed bias in higher education (RRWKF math anyone? 2+2=20500) and I haven’t really seen anyone with the guts to say what is obvious: the RRWKF and their progeny are just, well, not very bright.
There, it has been said.
Thus they are NOT generally able to obtain advanced degrees from legitimate universities, and are thus unqualified to join the faculty of legitimate colleges and universities. This obviously excludes education jokes like Falwell’s “Liberty University,” Pat Robertson’s “Regent University,” Oral Roberts University, Bob Jones university, and similar pseudo-universities and colleges which provide the illusion of an education and a degree to people who are otherwise unqualified to enter real institutions of higher education. You know, the ones that have standards for admission…
The simple fact is that intelligent people, and thus people with Ph.D.s, are generally able to discern fact from fantasy, reality from fairy tales, and thus tend generally to be Liberal and Democrats. There are obvious exceptions (e.g. a Ph.D. is no guarantee, some of the dumbest people I have met have had Ph.D.s, and then you have Condoleeza Rice, but she is a whole story unto herself) but in general this is just a fact.
The best example of this of course is that the shrieking fools who comprise the RRWKF in the media are very clearly some combination of dumb, mentally ill and delusional, junkies, or all of these (e.g. Rush Limbaugh). When faced with those pesky facts which disprove their absurd statements and beliefs, their only alternative is to fall back to yelling louder, interrupting those who would dare to point out their folly, and repeating that their fantasies trump reality. They subscribe en masse to the Nixonian notion of the Big Lie: if you repeat a lie often enough and loudly enough, no matter how ridiculous or easily disprovable by a simple review of the facts, then eventually the Big Lie is internalized by some people who just don’t pay attention or don’t care.
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