Professor pushing politics. Report or leave it alone?

[Anonymous]

In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone?

[Anonymous]

Economics in particular is a strange subject as it is very partisan. There are different schools and they are overtly liberal or conservative.

I'd make a mental note of it and leave it alone.

[Anonymous]

Are you at George Mason?

That entire department is funded by the Koch Brothers. They are paid to repeat that drivel ad nauseam.

[Anonymous]

$10 says he spends multiple classes covering the Laffer Curve.

Any legit econ program will spend one-half of one graduate level class discussing the mechanics of Laffer. It's also now considered to be a de-bunked theory.

[Anonymous]

He probably wants to provoke. I’d probably ignore and mention on his end of term evaluation that his irrelevant political comments were a distraction and took away from focus on the material. If he’s actively hostile to women, say, then I’d go to the admin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone?

I'm sure you've seen your fair share of liberal/leftist professors. What did you do in that case?

[Anonymous]

report to whom? for what?

he has academic freedom. or at least he should.

--raging leftist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you at George Mason?

That entire department is funded by the Koch Brothers. They are paid to repeat that drivel ad nauseam.

Totally false. Go and see. Besides, OP said she was in an MBA program, not econ. Here's the MBA faculty at George Mason. BTW, all students should be exposed to all sides of the argument in all fields. Most universities fail at this. You won't succeed in the job market if you don't understand all sides of an issue. http://business.gmu.edu/mba-programs/faculty/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He probably wants to provoke. I’d probably ignore and mention on his end of term evaluation that his irrelevant political comments were a distraction and took away from focus on the material. If he’s actively hostile to women, say, then I’d go to the admin.

Put it in his evaluation at the end of the semester. Don’t bring it up to him now. If it’s really distracting you can contact the head of the department or the dean and ask them to speak to the prof on your behalf but keep your name confidential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone?

I'm sure you've seen your fair share of liberal/leftist professors. What did you do in that case?

smile and nod?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone?

I'm sure you've seen your fair share of liberal/leftist professors. What did you do in that case?

Believe it or not, the vast majority of liberal-leaning professors don't make blatantly partisan political statements, don't denigrate individual politicians, and don't push radical views about government. It's not germane to the material.

In my experience, most conservatives get triggered by liberal-leaning professors when the class begins the economic or historical analysis of economic and political decisions made by leaders/parties. But, at that point, you're examining historical records and the record is very poor for conservative leaders. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone?

I'm sure you've seen your fair share of liberal/leftist professors. What did you do in that case?

Believe it or not, the vast majority of liberal-leaning professors don't make blatantly partisan political statements, don't denigrate individual politicians, and don't push radical views about government. It's not germane to the material.

In my experience, most conservatives get triggered by liberal-leaning professors when the class begins the economic or historical analysis of economic and political decisions made by leaders/parties. But, at that point, you're examining historical records and the record is very poor for conservative leaders. Sad.

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Yeah. I'll choose NOT.

[Anonymous]

Are you at George Mason?

That entire department is funded by the Koch Brothers. They are paid to repeat that drivel ad nauseam

George Mason, the university as a whole, suffers severely from this. It's terrible PR. Terrible for George Mason's national reputation and bad for Northern Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone?

I'm sure you've seen your fair share of liberal/leftist professors. What did you do in that case?

Believe it or not, the vast majority of liberal-leaning professors don't make blatantly partisan political statements, don't denigrate individual politicians, and don't push radical views about government. It's not germane to the material.

In my experience, most conservatives get triggered by liberal-leaning professors when the class begins the economic or historical analysis of economic and political decisions made by leaders/parties. But, at that point, you're examining historical records and the record is very poor for conservative leaders. Sad.

Or they made blatantly partisan political statements that you wholeheartedly agreed with so didn't even notice?

[Anonymous]

What are you going to report? He's arguing in favor of capitalism and against regulation, which history has proven works??? You will look like an idiot. Stop judging from a snowflake perspective and you might actually learn something