UI Republicans have launched their annual Conservative Coming Out Week- and so far, there have been no reports of faculty members responding with a hearty 'Fuck You, Republicans' as a certain member of the professoriate did last year... however, last years profanity might well be giving way to a nice juicy piece of litigation that's been swirling quietly throughout the legal realms of the interwebs.
Basically, a former grad of the UI Law School Teresa Wagner is suing a Dean at the Law School alleging that she was passed over for several teaching positions due to her Conservative activism and beliefs, bringing once again into the forefront the tiresome Conservative saw about overly liberal academia.
While I'll concede that diversity of thought is something that you should want to foster in a place of education, higher, lower or anywhere in between, it's worth noting that the ongoing idiotic levels of liberalism in academia have been a boon to the Right- because the more liberal they are, the higher the amount of people who find themselves convinced that it's bullshit will be. Now this doesn't necessarily mean they're going to wind up Republican (a passing glance at what passes for modern Conservative thought convinced me that they were full of shit as well) but the supposed spoon feeding is becoming a lot less effective than it used to be. (And does anyone else find it ironic that Conservatives want affirmative action for themselves but have a problem with affirmative action for minorities? Hmmmmm...)
Look, it's no secret the professoriate at this University is cloyingly liberal. It's no secret that a lot of the suburbanites happily eat up the bullshit that they spoon out. And at the end of the day, from where I'm sitting it shouldn't matter what people believe as long as they know why they believe what they believe and can defend what they believe. It's the 'why' that's most important of all...
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