campus wits need watching

Submitted by Terijo (United States), Dec 29, 2002 at 09:23

It is outrageous that with 98% of college faculty/administration being democrat (no, make that VERY liberal democrat) that they stand up en masse and defiantly pretend to be 'dissenters'.

I can remember classes (when I was being led toward socialism/very left wing politics, etc, myself) where when a conservative student opened his mouth, the rest of us, including the professor, shut it for him - and felt very righteous about it, too. I now think we were all telling our mommies and daddies (in the guise of this hapless, powerless student; the true dissenter) to 'shut up'. Including the professors.

I suppose oppressors never see themselves as oppressors.

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