College Republicans to identify liberal professors at the University of Toledo

[Are_grits_groceries]

UT College Republicans are compiling a list of liberal professors who they claimed have a bias against conservative students.

The list will include professors who students say have let their political views interfere with the way they interact with students in the classroom.

UT College Republicans President Matt Rubin, a junior majoring in political science and public administration, said the list is not an attempt to bash professors who have liberal ideas, but instead, it is an attempt to speak out for students who may have been victims of the bias, which was then reflected in their grade.

“We’ve been portrayed in the media, as well as comments from people in the community including College Democrats, saying that we’re creating a blacklist in order to smear the names of professors and that’s not true,” Rubin said. “We’re giving a voice to the students that have been harassed because of their political beliefs. It’s the same thing as bashing a student because they’re gay.”

Rubin said the list of liberal professors is important because of the many complaints he received from students at UT College Republicans meetings, concerning professors who made unnecessary political comments, including anti-Bush statements.

http://www.independentcollegian.com/news/college-republicans-to-identify-liberal-professors-1.1849825

Yay, a blacklist based on what criteria??

[WCGreen]

1. Oh My God...

The poor little republicans are feeling soooo sorry for themselves.

This is the same shit they tried to pull off in the early 90's.

It's just another excuse for them to use when they flunk a class.

Maybe we should weight their grades or given them special care to over come their privileged backgrounds...

[Buzz Clik]

6. Que David Horowitz. Time to dust off his "Academic Bill of Rights" speech and hit the college tour.

[Xenotime]

2. I have been saying it for years but nobody listens...

It's time to start outing these thugs.

[malaise]

3. The Professors should make it easy for them and

Wear Liberal and Proud Tee shirts.

Too many students don't realize that there is no bias but that knowledge is produced after inferences and generalizations are made based on empirical evidence. I'm betting that those College Republicans only produce their opinions. Fuck them.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. You destroy the liberal arts by destroying its professors.

One can only imagine the claim of bias as some professor attempts to share the virtues of Voltaire, Dickens, and More.

[Buzz Clik]

5. Next up: painting "Liberaldemokraten!" on the front door of the professors' homes.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. To defend them for a moment: what if being Republican isn't a choice, but a brain-damage thing?

Shouldn't republicans then be protected under the people with disabilities act, or at the least the equal opportunity laws?

Should colleges maybe begin having special departments for their "special" students, where they are taught at a slower pace and perhaps in a way that doesn't crash down reality on them, but serves up a bit of their dysfunctional myopic view of reality so as not to explode their brains?

[bridgit]

9. Yes, organic brain disorder there's something very wrong with the way they interpret the world...

around them and the data from it - they are, however, eliminating their own reasonable options as if, and so I see a large butterfly net in their future

[mwb970]

20. Is it a physical or mental illness then?

Clearly, today's version of republicanism is pathological. I have always assumed that crazy conservatism, like hyper-religiosity, is a mental illness that afflicts less-intelligent people with an authoritarian nature. Could there instead be an actual physical difference in their brains? Perhaps they are more like an inferior species than mere defective humans.

I will never, ever understand conservatives.

:shrug:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

28. Drew Westen, a political psychologist from Emory University, thinks so.

Read his book called "The Political Brain." In it, he argues that there is a psychological, mental disposition related to political ideology. It's also hereditary, according to him.

A fascinating book.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. There have been some good studies on terror management, too -

conservatives tend to spend much of their energy devoted to terror management - that is, doing things to alleviate fears, and for the conservative, fear comes from ambiguity, lack of closure, newness, difference, duality in thinking (stuff like, "some people prefer pie, some prefer cake, and that doesn't mean that either one is inherently better than the other"), people who think/act differently (xenophobia and homophobia fit in here), and so on.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

40. John Dean's "Broken Government" and "Conservatives Without Conscience" goes

into great detail about the authoritarian nature of the modern neoconservative movement. Fear is the key variable for understanding how the process works, and the Republican Party has been brilliant at use fear to keep their sheeple in line.

[Odin2005]

31. As someone with a REAL developmental disability (Asperger's), that is a real stupid, insulting post.

[bridgit]

8. pft, more like pre-school republicans well fuck them too!

[YOY]

10. "It’s the same thing as bashing a student because they’re gay."

Um...no. It's not. It's not even close. It's not even some medium distance. It's a stretch and a half.

If this is the same kind of logic they show in class then I do not feel sorry for them.

[blogslut]

11. Translation:

My professor doesn't agree with Rush Limbaugh or my preacher.

[formercia]

23. He gave me a 45 on my anti-evolution paper

then took off 65 points for spelling. They didn't do that at the fundie prep school my parents paid $15K a year for me to attend.

[Dawgs]

12. Toledo is a working class dem town. I think they'd be disappointed if the profs weren't liberal.

Bring it on.

[ima_sinnic]

13. oh boo-hoo, a professor disagreed with me

the comments under the article are great--until the resident morons show up.

[mwb970]

22. You can always tell when a wingnut blogger has spotted an article like this.

All of a sudden the comments after the article turn into a swirl of right-wing crap and nuttery, as if a horde of jabbering monkeys had been set loose on it all at once. It's kind of comical, actually.

[SpiralHawk]

14. The Homelander Totalitarian Academic Pogrom commences

"Down with those who don't think like us. Whine." - Republicon Homelanders

[Epiphany4z]

15. all Liberal professors must wear a scarlet L

jeeze republicans would just dissolve if they couldn't play the victim. How much further can the persecution complex go.......

[rucky]

16. Funny how they paint themselves as victims...

to justify their own discrimination.

Not ha-ha funny, though.

[Maeve]

17. It sounds like they think they are "outing" the professors

Silly little republibrats!

And I think posters with the quote I have taken as a sigline should go up everywhere.

[Gman]

18. Equating treatment of conservatives with treatment of gays?????

They'll pretty much say literally anything for the sake of convenience.

[marmar]

19. I've never encountered a less-evolved group of Cro-Magnons than College Repugs.....

..... and it was especially true during my college days at the University of Michigan because they were always running around crying how they were oppressed at leftist, commie U-M in leftist, tree-hugging, commie Ann Arbor.

[tavalon]

21. Neither young people nor Republicans as a rule are all that savvy and thoughtful about their actions

and the consequences therein. They also often have persecution complexes. Put Young and Republican together and they aren't really two tastes that go great together. You shouldn't be surprised that McCarthyism arises from such a sad combination.

[bertman]

24. After reading Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States", I think it's the other

way around. Our educational curricula have been centered around the conservative interpretation of the history of this country for decades, or a century. Whatever liberal interpretation students get in their colleges is needed to offset the years of conservative ideological brainwashing by the textbooks our children are trained with.

[bullwinkle428]

25. "It’s the same thing as bashing a student because they’re gay.”

Yes, because gangs of liberals are always running around beating up wingnuts to within an inch of their lives and leaving them to die!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

26. I am a liberal political science professor teaching a bunch of conservative

students from some of the conservative institutions around South Carolina, such as the Citadel. Well one semester, I remember asking the students if Saddam Hussein attacked us on 911.

In one of my classroom evaluations, a student accused me of liberal bias simply for raising the question.

We have been told by University officials to be especially mindful of ideological bias, and many of my colleagues and I have discussed this issue at length. We are all concerned about the intimidation from conservative students that even the perception of a liberal point of view could jeopardized our careers. It's maddening, ridiculous and so insulting. There are plenty of conservative political science professors, economists and others all across the University who are free to express their biased points of view in the classroom, but even a hint of liberalism could make our lives miserable!!! What kind of world do we live in? :puke:

The conservative students and organizations are incredibly organized on many campuses. Conservative think tanks and the Republican Party itself has stepped in, provided large sums of money to specifically target liberals--or perceive liberals--on campus.

I am a black female so there is an automatic assumption that I am also a liberal. And it's true! Thus, I try to be especially careful in the classroom. But the problem with the conservatives is that they are so dogmatic and indoctrinated by their ideology that facts and figures are useless. Contrary to all evidence--even from Bush and Cheney themselves--Saddam attacked us on 911 and he had weapons of mass destruction. To even suggest otherwise means that you are a liberal, commie, pinko!!

[barbtries]

29. i feel for you

and deplore the way they've turned "liberal" into a dirty word.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

41. What? I have turned liberal into a dirty word. Sweeheart have you seen my username?

I love being a liberal, but I also want to keep my job.

I have not turned "liberal" into a dirty word. That was done by society.

[barbtries]

44. hell i wasn't blaming it on you!

where the hell did that come from.

[2Design]

37. It is difficult and they do slate teachers to eliminate them n/t

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

43. I know. And yet, we are blamed for turning "liberal" into a dirty word?

That's news to me! We're trying to fight the good fight while keeping our jobs...and it's a losing battle, too!

[hedgehog]

27. The professors are making the mistake of believing they are there to make people think.

Obviously, they are there to provide a cover for four years of binge drinking and casual sexuality broken by occasional trips for Spring Break before the children of the entitled class go to work at the jobs awaiting them.

[Odin2005]

30. Reality has a liberal bias, morans.

[Hepburn]

32. Could it be that conservatives are just plain stupid and...

...not college material?

:hi:

[Liberal In Texas]

33. Witch hunters and junior McCarthyites.

In their world anyone not spouting Bible-thumping fascist corporatism is an enemy. Apparently anyone who doesn't buy the RW propaganda isn't to be tolerated and certainly not holding down a job as an academic.

[madmom]

35. My son is a student there, I'll have to ask him about this.

[Festivito]

36. How many liberal professors do they hail as unbiased? NONE?

I bet they are nothing but buffoons.

[NashVegas]

38. Maybe It's Time For Profs and Teachers To Rig Some Video / Audio of Their Own

In order to identify these pathetic whiners.

[Javaman]

39. So repubs are now equating their political position with being gay?

"It’s the same thing as bashing a student because they’re gay."

Wow, just wow.

So, does this mean they are regularly surrounded by homophobes and beaten up? Or called names in public? or passed over for jobs? or denied their basic rights as Americans?

Whiny little shits.

The reality is this: these little fucks just don't want to listen to opinions and facts that shatter their little fantasy world of bullshit.

life with blinders on.

[alcibiades_mystery]

42. ROFL

I remember when a conservative student told me at the end of a semester that he was happy to finally have a conservative professor. He near collapsed when I told him I was a Marxist.

:rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

45. There is not one whit of doubt that these FUCKING LITTLE ASSHOLES earned any scorn they may feel

Has anyone ever met a PLEASANT young college repubican?

Anyone?

Beuler?