I think it is better to report the ratio of faculty that are liberal vs conservative. At my top ten grad school it was 95 to 5. At my slac it is 80 to 20.
Advice for a Conservative PhD student
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If you are conservative in a non absurd or fascist way
This is already starting to get old.I don’t think they know that many conservative academics.
I would say most conservative academics are pretty different from your average Trump voter. For example, conservative academics don’t say dumb stuff like “the 2020 election was stolen!”
Romney is closer to your average conservative academic than Trump.Accurate. This overall thread is rightie self pity fantasy. Liberal political science faculty have an average ideology around Joe Biden and conservative political science faculty (who are a lot more numerous than the rightie gradflakes and non academics on this thread think) have an ideology on average around Mitt Romney. Schisms between us are almost entirely uncorrelated with partisanship, instead we fracture along theoretical and methodological lines.
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Schisms between us are almost entirely uncorrelated with partisanship, instead we fracture along theoretical and methodological lines.
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this true. But it also true that the party breakdown is somewhere between 80-20 and 90-10. In a one party state, there are no schisms! -
C'mon, to all the liberals here saying that there are good discussions with a conservative as long as they are not "fascist": do you not notice how many things are simply stated in a way that presupposes that everyone agrees with them? The important thing is that the *premises* are hardline, so there is no real discussion of precisely the things that many reasonable people disagree on. the debate is set to be liberal identitarian to begin with, so if there is a real debate, it automatically questions the orthodoxy, which immediately makes the person debating an apostate. As a liberal in a classical sense, I would advise young scholars to keep their views to themselves, esp now that even Chomsky is attacked as not sufficiently"progressive".
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I am a conservative PhD student surprised at the open political biases of virtually all my professors. They openly express their support for the liberal order while condemning and mocking the conservative order in class.
How should a conservatives student navigate this landmine?Do good work, be kind to others, be a thoughtful teacher.
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thing is, you are seeing more of the crazy ones because the "regular conservatives" mostly keep their mouths shut. they do this because they know that if they say they think colonization in some cases, in some ways helped people that doofuses like you will think they secretly believe colonization is "a perfect thing" as you put it and that they must believe this because they are rayssist.
If you are a regular conservative, it is fine but if you are crazy, I do not think you will be getting a job.
There is a person in the program I am in who believes racism is fake. This person argues there should be racism for the improvement of AA people. This person believes colonization is a perfect thing because it helped the development of underdeveloped countries.
This person is also very dismissive. When you are docile and want to argue a point purely on research and its merits, this person does not engage with you. Basically, you either agree with this person or you are completely out of your mind.
This person also says these things to professors, including the ones in his subfield who will probably be his advisors. On several occasions, he called a professor stupid to the professor's face. -
To think that a few years ago I tried to sound the alarm here about what had happened at Yale to the Christakises and at Evergreen State to Brett Weinstein. I argued that if undergrads are intolerant, screaming ideologues, it wouldn't be long until grad students and junior professors are, too. Well. Here we are. The only remaining question is: will nonconservative, moderate, liberal, and progressive (as opposed to woke) faculty do anything about it?
Is nothing to be done?
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^^^ I’m progressive, perhaps far left, but not woke. My emotional sympathy on these issues is often with conservatives. I like vigorous debate and I don’t think academia should be subject to moral policing. But, no, I won’t do anything about it. The emotional and perhaps professional costs would be too high.
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I don't see the problem. Sure, the ratio skews liberal in academia, but every department I've been at has had both liberals and conservatives. Most people are aware of one another's political ideologies, and it's simply not an issue. Now, to be clear, I'm talking about liberals (left) versus conservatives (right). If by "conservative" you actually mean "rabid Trump supporter," then yeah, your colleagues will probably think you're a dumbaśś -- both the liberals and the conservatives. You're on your own there.
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I don't see the problem. Sure, the ratio skews liberal in academia, but every department I've been at has had both liberals and conservatives. Most people are aware of one another's political ideologies, and it's simply not an issue.
Yeah, it's surely not an issue that 90% of academics these days are hold left-wing views. What could ever be the problem with that in terms of conducting objective research and teaching?
The last sentence is completely delusional.
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This person believes colonization is a perfect thing because it helped the development of underdeveloped countries.
Why do you think that's wrong? Didn't most countries in Africa and Asia have much better government under colonial rule, less corrupt and less persecution of minority ethnic groups and religions?
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If you are religious that is fine, few will hold that against you if you love your neighbour like Jesus taught you to do. You'll find that some of your peers are also religious - in their own faiths - and hold similar views, even if they do not wear them on their sleeves.
Do not insult people who do not agree with you. Treat others as you would want to be treated.Like this?
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!"
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If you are religious that is fine, few will hold that against you if you love your neighbour like Jesus taught you to do. You'll find that some of your peers are also religious - in their own faiths - and hold similar views, even if they do not wear them on their sleeves.
Do not insult people who do not agree with you. Treat others as you would want to be treated.
Like this?
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!"
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"The robots are suggesting that this post looks like a post that is typically deleted on PSR and will likely violate the moderation policy. Please reconsider the language you use.")Ermagerd ... Senshurship agunst wyt crusteeyuns !
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What a rid3iculous thread. What the people posting here consider "conservatives" I would consider the hard Left. There's a certain historical amnesia that liberals live in where every 5 years the Overton window has to be reframed and a bunch of stuff has to be forgotten. Maybe amnesia isn't the right word, it's a more general cognitive pathology.
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I’m progressive, perhaps far left, but not woke. My emotional sympathy on these issues is often with conservatives. I like vigorous debate and I don’t think academia should be subject to moral policing. But, no, I won’t do anything about it. The emotional and perhaps professional costs would be too high.
You are a co/w@rd!