Thursday, July 03, 2008

The Sooner, The Better

The leftist professors who dominated our universities since the late 1960s are fading away into retirement. And that is making our schools less ideological according to this NY Times article (yes, I know).

In general, information on professors’ political and ideological leanings tends to be scarce. But a new study of the social and political views of American professors by Neil Gross at the University of British Columbia and Solon Simmons at George Mason University found that the notion of a generational divide is more than a glancing impression. “Self-described liberals are most common within the ranks of those professors aged 50-64, who were teenagers or young adults in the 1960s,” they wrote, making up just under 50 percent. At the same time, the youngest group, ages 26 to 35, contains the highest percentage of moderates, some 60 percent, and the lowest percentage of liberals, just under a third.

When it comes to those who consider themselves “liberal activists,” 17.2 percent of the 50-64 age group take up the banner compared with only 1.3 percent of professors 35 and younger.

I hate it when leftisst call themselves liberal, They aren’t even remotely liberal. But, whatever…

Of course, these professors have taught the ones coming up. So plenty of young professors got their world view from these crazy lefties. People like “America is Evil” Noam Chomsky or main hater extreme Andrea Dworkin. But I suspect the baby boomer professors are uniquely more self righteous than the younger ones because of the nature of the times they grew up in. In the early 60s, political leaders were assasinated, race riots were common, terrorists were Americans, the racial divide was very real. There’s a lot less reason to be so angry today, even though we could point to other injustices. Mainly ones created by the logic of these same leftist professors. Many of the loony memes we have today like “we’re killing the planet” or “dead white males” are inventions of these people.

The sooner they go away, the less we have to deal with their crazy talk.