A friend sits in a London Park having a picnic with other graduates from the prestigious UK
University they have all just graduated from
She know she shouldn't say this but she risks it to test the water and the tut tutting and sympathetic
faces say it all. You have expressed a view which is not acceptably leftist and liberal.
"You actually admire that person? but he is so right wing!."
"So?...what's so terrible about that?"
So this young lady has been sent into the cold, she is now shunned, not invited to this
this dinner party, or the next picnic in the Park.
And her admiration for someone who is not termed a 'liberal' was quite mild. If she had been more honest with her view she would have risked complete social death.
The prestigious UK university these young people have merged from is today a stultifying conformist institution in its leftist sentiments of such a bent that they smack of Soviet era thinking
In the Universities the standard version, the leftist liberal line, is policed rigorously. And the only accredited language in which students are allowed to speak is full of well-rehearsed evasions and apologias and exculpatory frameworks. It is an Orwell speak dish served up by silver tongued
waiters.
If we care to look at our cousins across the pond the leftist bent in the academies has been well verified
Recent studies have confirmed that American universities have become bigoted and biased against the expression of conservative views. One new study documents bias against the expression of conservative views among social and personality psychologists, including those at universities:
Professor David Gelernter’s new book America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats) addresses the history behind the transformation of many universities to a system biased in favor of liberal views. He describes how leftist intellectuals were brought into the universities, and how the previous guardians of conservatism in these places bowed out. Gelernter observes that such views spread elsewhere from their new home in the university, including to the mainstream media.
Gelernter believes that the old conservative guard voluntarily stepped aside:
This makes one want to look at the genesis of the 'left' and its reportedly fascistic embryo.
'sent to Coventry' (ostracised) by her fellow Graduates.
But how has this phenomenon of leftist stealth occurred?
Could it be that Conservatives, believing in a free exchange of views and in public debate, welcomed liberals into the universities, the media, and into other organizations as well.
Then, Liberals, hostile to a free exchange of views and hostile to public debate, then drove conservatives out.
This appears to explain how our universities and media first became not merely inclusive of liberal views, but also subsequently exclusive of conservative views.
Moreover the leftist bent is not exclusive to the Universities but it is rampant in the Media
where reporters are afraid of being fired should they report facts supportive of conservative views,. thus creating a “Zombie Media,” the BBC in the UK is a perfect example which is of such a liberal leftist bent that it drives people of a more discursive view into outrage as its media hacks
spout views inimical to the BBC's Charter.
Listen to the views of academics and media types and if you want to see bigotry and bias in action then disagree with them.
Professor David Gelernter’s new book America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats) addresses the history behind the transformation of many universities to a system biased in favor of liberal views. He describes how leftist intellectuals were brought into the universities, and how the previous guardians of conservatism in these places bowed out. Gelernter observes that such views spread elsewhere from their new home in the university, including to the mainstream media.
Gelernter believes that the old conservative guard voluntarily stepped aside:
University they have all just graduated from
She know she shouldn't say this but she risks it to test the water and the tut tutting and sympathetic
faces say it all. You have expressed a view which is not acceptably leftist and liberal.
"You actually admire that person? but he is so right wing!."
"So?...what's so terrible about that?"
So this young lady has been sent into the cold, she is now shunned, not invited to this
this dinner party, or the next picnic in the Park.
And her admiration for someone who is not termed a 'liberal' was quite mild. If she had been more honest with her view she would have risked complete social death.
The prestigious UK university these young people have merged from is today a stultifying conformist institution in its leftist sentiments of such a bent that they smack of Soviet era thinking
In the Universities the standard version, the leftist liberal line, is policed rigorously. And the only accredited language in which students are allowed to speak is full of well-rehearsed evasions and apologias and exculpatory frameworks. It is an Orwell speak dish served up by silver tongued
waiters.
If we care to look at our cousins across the pond the leftist bent in the academies has been well verified
Recent studies have confirmed that American universities have become bigoted and biased against the expression of conservative views. One new study documents bias against the expression of conservative views among social and personality psychologists, including those at universities:
We find that respondents significantly underestimate the proportion of conservatives among their colleagues. … that conservatives fear negative consequences of revealing their political beliefs to their colleagues. Finally, we find that conservatives are right to do so. In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues. The more liberal respondents are, the more willing they are to discriminate.Also note this passage, from the 2009 book The Politically Correct University:
Substantial anecdotal and quantitative evidence indicates that there is a decided leftist bent to colleges and universities, particularly the most prestigious institutions … Moreover, as several of the following contributions discuss, this political imbalance likely stems from practices within the academy that discourage conservatives from pursuing academic careers. … We maintain that the relative absence of conservative, libertarian, and neoliberal thinkers and thought from the academy is in part caused by discriminatory academic personnel practices.And read this passage from “A Crisis of Competence,” a 2012 report for the Regents of the University of California by the California Association of Scholars:
This report is concerned with the corruption of the University of California by activist politics. … The condition we investigate is now a well-documented pathology of the modern university. … According to a recent (2007) Zogby poll, a majority (58%) of the public now believes that the problem of faculty political bias is a very serious one.These are the very institutions that were to promote freedom of speech. How were they taken control of in the first place, to the point where the documented intolerance could be permitted?
Professor David Gelernter’s new book America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats) addresses the history behind the transformation of many universities to a system biased in favor of liberal views. He describes how leftist intellectuals were brought into the universities, and how the previous guardians of conservatism in these places bowed out. Gelernter observes that such views spread elsewhere from their new home in the university, including to the mainstream media.
Gelernter believes that the old conservative guard voluntarily stepped aside:
Intellectuals didn’t conspire to make the cultural revolution happen. They could not have forced the Great Reform if they had tried, because the WASP elite colleges were private institutions in the age before massive federal grants let the government sink its teeth in permanently. The reform happened because the WASP elite stepped aside. It was a remarkable event — either a heroic, self-effacing embrace of justice for its own sake, or an act of exhaustion.But perhaps he is being too kind to the intellectuals. Is it possible that indeed there was a mechanism by which leftists forced out those who didn’t agree with them?
This makes one want to look at the genesis of the 'left' and its reportedly fascistic embryo.
Among intellectuals, the left-liberal religious faithful are often not merely pious but zealous, even fanatic,Back to my young Graduate friend who now feel distinctly ' unfriended' for she has been
'sent to Coventry' (ostracised) by her fellow Graduates.
But how has this phenomenon of leftist stealth occurred?
Could it be that Conservatives, believing in a free exchange of views and in public debate, welcomed liberals into the universities, the media, and into other organizations as well.
Then, Liberals, hostile to a free exchange of views and hostile to public debate, then drove conservatives out.
This appears to explain how our universities and media first became not merely inclusive of liberal views, but also subsequently exclusive of conservative views.
Moreover the leftist bent is not exclusive to the Universities but it is rampant in the Media
where reporters are afraid of being fired should they report facts supportive of conservative views,. thus creating a “Zombie Media,” the BBC in the UK is a perfect example which is of such a liberal leftist bent that it drives people of a more discursive view into outrage as its media hacks
spout views inimical to the BBC's Charter.
Listen to the views of academics and media types and if you want to see bigotry and bias in action then disagree with them.
Also note this passage, from the 2009 book The Politically Correct University:
Substantial anecdotal and quantitative evidence indicates that there is a decided leftist bent to colleges and universities, particularly the most prestigious institutions … Moreover, as several of the following contributions discuss, this political imbalance likely stems from practices within the academy that discourage conservatives from pursuing academic careers. … We maintain that the relative absence of conservative, libertarian, and neoliberal thinkers and thought from the academy is in part caused by discriminatory academic personnel practices.And read this passage from “A Crisis of Competence,” a 2012 report for the Regents of the University of California by the California Association of Scholars:
This report is concerned with the corruption of the University of California by activist politics. … The condition we investigate is now a well-documented pathology of the modern university. … According to a recent (2007) Zogby poll, a majority (58%) of the public now believes that the problem of faculty political bias is a very serious one.These are the very institutions that were to promote freedom of speech. How were they taken control of in the first place, to the point where the documented intolerance could be permitted?
Professor David Gelernter’s new book America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats) addresses the history behind the transformation of many universities to a system biased in favor of liberal views. He describes how leftist intellectuals were brought into the universities, and how the previous guardians of conservatism in these places bowed out. Gelernter observes that such views spread elsewhere from their new home in the university, including to the mainstream media.
Gelernter believes that the old conservative guard voluntarily stepped aside:
Intellectuals didn’t conspire to make the cultural revolution happen. They could not have forced the Great Reform if they had tried, because the WASP elite colleges were private institutions in the age before massive federal grants let the government sink its teeth in permanently. The reform happened because the WASP elite stepped aside. It was a remarkable event — either a heroic, self-effacing embrace of justice for its own sake, or an act of exhaustion.But perhaps he is being too kind to the intellectuals. Is it possible that indeed there was a mechanism by which leftists forced out those who didn’t agree with them?
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