Can anyone suggest schools where Republicans are welcome?
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Anonymous
Good luck finding a "non brainwashed groupie" school in Europe! I spent my junior year in probably the most staid European country, and there were actual COMMUNISTS (gasp!) and ANARCHISTS (gasp!!) in every single class I took. Not the type of lefty that you guys incorrectly dismiss as "commies," but the real deal. Come to think of it, I can't remember a single conservative student in my classes there. But anyway. If you and your DH are confusing social issues (redistribution, choice, affirmative action) with "political marketing," then you've got bigger problems. There are different types of issues in politics. Some are purely economic (does lowering taxes increase economic output -- oh wait, Mitch McConnell killed that study). Others are outside of economics, like affirmative action, or whether there is moral value (apart from economic consequences) in taxing the rich to give to the poor. In these types of issues, you decide between moral consequences and economic consequences, and this is totally different from simple "political marketing." I say this as economist from a top-3 business school. |
Anonymous
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Did your top-3 business school include the following tomes in its curriculum?
The Little Red Hen The Ant and the Grasshopper These are great books on economics. Recommend that everyone read them and consider....... |
Anonymous
How old are you, 12? |
Anonymous
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No, 13:19, I am not 12.
I am old enough to know that redistribution creates a class that either does not want to work, or does not believe that it is capable of working. Again, go read the two books I suggested. There is a lot of truth in them. Of course, we need to help people who cannot help themselves. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
What's wrong with you? OP asked where Republicans might feel welcome. Not for a debate on what they think and read. |
Anonymous
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This article may be of interest
http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/news/1916/missing_diversity.html • At the University of Colorado-a public university in a Republican state-94% of the liberal arts faculty whose party registrations could be established were Democrats and only 4% percent Republicans. Out of 85 professors of English who registered to vote, zero were Republicans. Out of 39 professors of history-one. Out of 28 political scientists-two. How Republican is Colorado? Its governor, two Senators and four out of six congressmen are Republican. There are 200,000 more registered Republicans in Colorado than there are Democrats. But at the state-funded, University of Colorado, Republicans are a fringe group. • At Brown University, 94.7% of the professors whose political affiliations showed up in primary registrations last year were Democrats, only 5.3% were Republicans. Only three Republicans could be found on the Brown liberal arts faculty. Zero in the English Department, zero in the History Department, zero in the Political Science Department, zero in the Africana Studies Department, and zero in the Sociology Department. • At the University of New Mexico, 89% of the professors were Democrats, 7% Republicans and 4% Greens. Of 200 professors, ten were Republicans, but zero in the Political Science Department, zero in the History Department, zero in the Journalism Department and only one each in the Sociology, English, Women's Studies and African American Studies Departments. • At the University of California, Santa Barbara, 97% of the professors were Democrats. 1.5% Greens and an equal 1.5% Republicans. Only one Republican professor could be found. • At the University of California, Berkeley, of the 195 professors whose affiliations showed up, 85% were Democrats, 8% Republicans, 4% Greens and 3% American Independent Party, Peace and Freedom Party and Reform Party voters. Out of 54 professors in the History Department, only one Republican could be found, out of 28 Sociology professors zero, out of 57 English professors zero, out of 16 Women's Studies professors zero, out of nine African American Studies professors zero, out of six Journalism professors zero. • At the University of California, Los Angeles, of the 157 professors whose political affiliations showed up 93% were Democrats, only 6.5% were Republicans. • At the University of North Carolina, the Daily Tar Heel conducted its own survey of eight departments and found that, of the professors registered with a major political party, 91% were Democrats while only 9% were Republicans. In an ideological universe in which university administrators claim that "diversity" is their priority, these are striking facts. How can students get a good education, if they're only being told half the story? The answer is, they can't. |
Anonymous
| ^^^Guess Republicans should be encouraged to be educators then. Oh, wait, there's not enough money in it. Never mind. |
Anonymous
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^^^Guess Republicans should be encouraged to be educators then. Oh, wait, there's not enough money in it. Never mind. Have you checked out the pay and benefits of college professors lately? These are not your father's college professors. |
Anonymous
| They're still not paid much considering most have PhD's. Also, most faculties are now comprised of adjuncts. They are paid very little. |
Anonymous
That was my thought. The problem is obvious: Republicans aren't going in to teaching. Why do some of the Republicans here think that is? Time to stop whining about East Coast liberal college elites and storm the ivory tower, guys! Maybe the problem is the Republican bias against "eggheads" and "educated elite"? With your party heaping scorn like that on our famed institutions of higher learning, combined with the low pay, an investment banking job probably looks like a better bet. |
Anonymous
| Ole Miss, SMU, Rice U , Vanderbilt , UGA |
Anonymous
I wonder if it's becuase Republicans don't want to work as professors or because the liberals in the school don't want to hire (or promote) conservatives? I don't know how colleges hire and promote professors - but this seems to be an area where affirmative action might be needed to break down barriers and establish diverstity. |
Anonymous
Colorado is a swing state and, like Wisconsin is increasing leaning to the left. They just passed a bill that legalized marijuana in Colorado. If you are truly looking for republican colleges, you have to stick the Mid-West: Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, etc. True red states that are decades away from becoming a swing state. |
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Education, by definition, attracts Democrats, because Democrats value education. The GOP believes education is "elitist."
So, OP, if you're a true Republican, you shouldn't be sending your kid to college at all. |