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Is There Political Bias at Colleges and Universities?
By Matt Margolis | December 22, 2002
Acco rding to a professional survey of Ivy League schools, only 3% of the professors considered themselves to be Republicans. [i] Liberal professors have an outrageous monopoly of the sociology, economics, history, journalism, and political science departments at top schools like Harvard, Penn State, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. [ii]
We must also consider who has the most politically powerful influence on the American public education system, The National Education Association (NEA), the country’s largest union and most powerful political lobby, which clearly has a liberal agenda. [iii]
The NEA is against the moment of silence, mandatory and/or random drug testing, school choice, home schooling, as well as measures for teacher accountability. But, the NEA does support abortion, socialized medicine, tax-funded education for convicts, bilingual education, and even racist policies like affirmative action. [iv]
The Federal Government’s National Standards of U.S. History also showcases liberal bias. The Standards make 19 references to the Ku Klux Klan, but only mentions George Washington once, and completely ignores such American innovators like Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers. [v]
This past year, the top schools in this country chose liberal political figures and entertainers as Commencement speakers, while completely ignoring prominent conservatives. [vi] Conservative speakers, when they are chosen, usually meet protest, as did Laura Bush at UCLA this year. Yet, few protests ever occurred at schools that had convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to be the keynote speaker at their schools. [vii]
Higher education is also a battleground for liberals to paint conservatives in the worst possible light. To read the descriptions of courses being offered at universities is like reading anti-conservative propaganda pamphlet. Many courses are fixated on sex, homosexuality, Afro-centrism, or the advantages of Marxism. These courses are anti- Western culture, the United States, capitalism, and Judeo-Christian values. Courses discussing conservatism show their bias by equated the right wing with white supremacy, the KKK, and Nazism. [viii]
So, is there political bias at colleges and universities? Is there really any room for doubt?
[i]Horowitz, David, “Frontpage magazine.com” [url]http://www.frontpagemag.com/content/read.asp?ID=11[/url] November 2002
[ii] Sorokin, Ellen, “’One-party campuses’ – The Washington Times” [url]http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20020905-94412890.htm[/url]
[iii] “NEA Hot Topics Index” [url]http://www.nea.org/topics[/url] November 2002
[iv] Kaiser, Kent, “NEA Resolutions Show Liberal Agenda” [url]http://www.mfc.org/pfn/97-10/nea.html[/url] November 2002
[v] Flynn, Daniel Why the Left Hates America. California: Prima Publishing, 2002.
[vi] Walsh, Katherine, “UCLA has a lot of gall turning away Laura Bush” [url]http://www.ccchronicle.com/back/2002-02-25/opinions3.html[/url] November 2002
[vii] Flynn, Daniel “Cop Killer Commencement” [url]http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2000/may_2000_1.html[/url] October 2002
[viii] “Comedy & Tragedy” [url]http://www.yaf.org/publications/c&t.html[/url] November 2002
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September 2nd, 2004 at 1:32 pm
I don’t know if there is political bias in my school, but there is hostility against religious morals. In 1 English class, the professor had students read a paragraph or two about Mary Wollstonecraft, an early feminist who was against marriage for women and believed women should have kids without the benfit of the girl being married to the father first. I didn’t thin it was propaganda then, but now I see that it is. The point was to indoctrinate the students, not just to teach them good English skills. Also at Kingsborough Community College, I took a Sex Education class as, to fulfill my requirement for the semester and just to see what they taught. The professor teaching the class was teaching one day that research from a scientist stated that “people are born gay”. I was trying to point out that the scientist in question is a homosexual to begin with, therefore he’s biased as a result of that, and that there is no proof of any “gay gene”. He wouldn’t listen to me at all. In fact, he gave me a B for the class, in sted of the A that I deserved. That is bias, all right. I would like to know what my rights as a student are on campus, though, and challenge a professor next time I’m up against one of their ilk again.
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