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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 year agowho are some academics who exemplify who you’re talking about, so I can get my head around what you’re trying to say as a specific thing that can be tested >factually, as opposed to just a generality.
I doubt you are going to know any of my college professors but the whole psychology department was conservative. But Dr. Rogers, Dr. Corvellis, and Dr. Case were all conservatives and high up in the department.
I went to school in the midwest in the late 80’s.
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Putin Says He Wants to Work With Biden, Claims ‘Shared Values’ Between Democrats and Communism
I was told for next semester I need to add more social justice to my classes. I am not tenured as I am PT. I said no, not because I am for or against social justice but because it has nothing to do with what I am teaching. I am teaching cybersecurity courses right now. We avoid politics unless it is relevant to the topic.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hm… I wouldn’t be surprised if there are individual universities where particular whole departments are conservative, then and now. Are you basing your whole statement about academia then vs now on your experience in that one department? Because that would be easily believable to me, but I’d hesitate to apply that to the whole of academia.
Again, in this case I actually do feel like I know what you’re talking about with a particular brand of left-wing-ism that’s become common in academia now that didn’t used to be, and if it’s what I’m thinking of, then I will agree with you 100% that that particular brand is a bad thing.
This is just super weird. I mean… I get that this particular article says that Putin said once that he can work with Biden and drew some parallels between Soviet history and American history.
What’s your assertion with this in terms of what it means about Biden? If you’re trying to point to this to say that Biden and Putin are aligned in any way, I think you gotta tell Biden that, because he’s more or less fighting a proxy war against Putin right now.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s anecdotal but don’t confuse conservative with republican. I bet most of them were democrats. It’s one of my complaints is we’ve become more divided. My hard science instructors were conservative. Psychology has went hard left now and it use to be more conservative. But it’s all anecdotal and I acknowledge the limits of that. I went to three schools and two leaned conservative. One I have no clue. It never came up. The second school was mainly retired military as instructors.
What does it mean about Biden? Fair question and I’ll give you a fair answer. Nothing. It’s a dig at Biden but Putin is a master at words. Putin isn’t stupid. He picked those terms carefully to stain Biden.
Biden political is all over the place but if we look at his record he’s fairly conservative. As president he’s neurotic. He’s trying to appease the left when he’s more right. Look at his crime bill in the 90’s