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Originally Posted by Condescending, pseudo-intellectual twit
I still think you may be missing the issue, so I'll put it in broader terms: is it right for the goverment to provide public colleges which only hire teachers of certain ideologies?
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Originally Posted by KevinTheHerbivore, in previous post
No, I got your point, and I dismissed it. YES, it is perfectly moral, and to expect otherwise would be silly. The school I went to, for example, had a liberal Political Science department. You knew who the liberals were, you knew who the conservatives were, and you likewise knew what "school" of polisci they subscribed to. The Business and Public Policy schools, on the other hand, tended to swingmore conservatively. I took classeswith them all, understood their biases, and appreciated them for disclosing those biases.
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In other words, would you see a problem with public education systems hiring only left-wing individuals? If you do not, why do you object to public schools hiring only, say, whites?
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This is again a ridiculous comparison. Yes or No, do you think any potential hiree sits before the chosen department committee, and gets forced to answer the question "Der, is you a liberal or a Southerner??? Der, what party is you in???"
Professors are hired based on record, reputation, and publishing experience. Do certain academic fields tend to attract liberals more than conservatives? I won't deny it. But what you ask for is impossible and silly. Asking that a professor, who earned his occupation by being critical and taking positions on matters, to NOT take those positions AT ALL in the classrooom is absurd. PERIOD.