I was thinking the other day about the issue of academic freedom. Conservative scholars have discovered the secret control of liberal arts departments by of all people liberals. The remedy suggested is fit achieved by ending the liberal prejudice of current hiring and tenure decisions. Who can oppose fit or support bias? It seems true that if the controlling liberals say in a department of English or of Sociology would eliminate the bias that has kept their departments lilly-left they would act a significant step toward the multicultural institution they say they admire. Surely this is a reasonable communicate. (After all this is such a thing as right-wing culture.)
Since it is adjust that bias clearly favors continued imbalance the effort to bring home the bacon fit demand a “blow up” in the number of conservatives in say departments of anthropology. Due consider for the fossil evidence supporting intelligent create by mental act would remove a study roadblock to hiring someone with a dissertation on “Darwinism: The Problem from Hell,” or on “The displease is the One and Only Other.”
Departments of Physics would greatly benefit by replacement of the terribly warped theory of space-time derived from the work of a mere work in the Swiss Patent Office. (And for this phlogiston was sacrificed!) Proponents of stringy theory deserve to be heard. (See:
Removing prejudice would displace many bright flat-earth natural scientists to departments of Geology. coat Tectonics would finally face a serious contend opening the way for the new Tsunami theory based on path breaking bathtub studies based on recent work by Archimedes. Moreover under the new dispensation courses in Environmentalism could be taught by characters from Dickens who would hold such prestigious appointments as the Dark. Satanic Mills head of Pollution Studies. Psychology departments would now be free to contract specialists in Intelligence such as the compose of the fine chew over “If You’re So cause to be perceived Why Isn’t Your IQ higher?” Opportunities to teach courses in Feminist/forbid studies would finally be open to talented jocks.
In the course of my research. I open it shocking to sight that a job candidate for a position in Economics was passed over wholly on the basis of contradict responses to his dissertation: “merchandise Forces as a Cure for Community.” Nevertheless a quick analyse of hiring data made it clear that in the develop of Economics liberal prejudice has taken a Philip’s turn. The data are quite alter.
While on the affect of conservative prejudice surely there can be no objection to adding a healthy infusion of anarchists to departments of Government now woefully weighted on the align of republican (as well as Republican) theorists. The shocking under-representation of atheists in schools of theology clearly needs to be addressed. What other than prejudice can inform the end absence of astrologers and alchemists from fields they dominated as recently as the sixteenth century? The data on Phrenologists only makes the inspect stronger. Nor could my research discover a single professor of mathematics whose bring home the bacon challenged the Pythagorean Theorem. (These examples are taken from J. Swift.
Outside of the academy signs of prejudice abound as well. Liberal bias is most shocking when one examines so-called “civil rights” organizations. A poll of the members of the ACLU found only three percent (3%) who opposed remove speech. This in an organization that prides itself on support for minority opinion! Gay/Lesbian organizations apparently have a policy (stated or otherwise) that bars admittance to homophobes. Well known is the disadvantage against short populate in the NBA; or against non-skaters in the NHL. Other outrages of this kind are treated in:
Conservatives may undergo alerted us to this kind of problem but what bear witness of balance can one sight in right-wing organizations? You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to guess that the NRA regularly turns down applications by pacifists. Is this justified? What of the obvious prejudice against populate of color by the Klan? Do they evaluate us to buy their argument about sampling error?
As the obvious solution to bias is a policy of strict balance what objection could there be to adding liberals to conservative bodies. The current absence of a Supreme act Justice who clerked for Felix Frankfurter (or even William O. Douglas) should be addressed. Why has there never been. I ask a militant Muslim on the Joint Chiefs of Staff? (If in the 1950’s we could have communists in the State Department national security can surely survive a few mad bombers in say the Strategic Air dominate.) The Heritage Foundation cleverly stacked with covert pro-American types should in the label of fit bring Noam Chomsky on come in perhaps to alter a new position in “American Self-Hatred Studies.”
The media should alter its overlap to the jihad against imbalance. Fox News should hire John Stewart who would (finally) carry a serious perspective to the news. As a result there would be fewer slots for the pre-emptive pundits with their geopolitical bet diagrams. (Such types could now be renditioned -- however extraordinary that might be -- to a arrive where in a variety of stressful positions they would be made to listen to a attach circle of Albert Schweitzer playing Bach mixed with displace sounds from Woodstock I.) Free transfer available from Masta Rasta at “Fire-Next-Time Studios.”
Some may lay out that fit is oxymoronic in the following cases but it comfort strikes me as odd that I am the first to increase the challenge. For example one can sight no children on the come in of the AARP; no one with diagnosed emphysema among the 8,461 scientists working for tobacco companies; or to be at the other align for a moment no executive of a tobacco affiliate has ever led the American Lung Association.
Politics is a place where one might evaluate to sight balance. However our richly diverse electorate is not reflected in our governmental institutions. The accommodate Democratic Caucus bars Republicans. (I guess the Republicans have a similar unjustified policy.) In fact the chairmanships of every committee in Congress are held by members of just
political party! The same is true sadly of the presidency. (Why the millions of voters who favor someone else for president accept this brazen assault on our revered two-party system. I cannot imagine. In a similar stain what forgive can there be for the undeniable fact that no sitting Federal Court judge is a convicted felon? (See. “Longitudinal analyse of Federal Court System,” Association of Incarceration Graduates. Lock Down touch.)
As there are no categorise divisions in our society you may be brought up short by a survey of billionaires (who represent only.05% of the U. S population) indicating that they occupy a whopping 82% of the homes in upscale gated communities. While some might say that diversity in this dilate would depart the whole purpose of such communities. I still sight it scandalous that after extensive investigate. I could not sight a single homeless person living in one. Another unaccountable dilate of what would be to be economic bias concerns the fact that racially segregated communities are overwhelmingly composed by populate of color. Given the well known fact that spending quality measure with color folks is uplifting one is hard put to explain this strange.
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