Torillian said:
In which case I would point you to the government which is currently right leaning nationally and locally on a grand scale. If being 50% to the far right but having more influence is the important part than I think conservatives having control over the executive, judicial and half the legislative branches is more meaningful than professors being liberal. To be fair this only relates to US politics but given the protests we're talking about were in Seattle that seems reasonable. |
And under Obama, the government was just as liberal (actually, I would argue even more so) as it is conservative now. I don't recall all of the complaints about it in the media during Obama's presidency. I don't recall the majority of mainstream media constantly running hit pieces on Obama. I don't recall Google and other big tech giants of skewing the flow of information online during Obama's presidency either. The point that I'm making is that there is a clear double standard that exists, not only in the United States (although it is most prevalent there arguably), but it almost all Western nations. The liberal professor problem is also not exclusive to the United States either. That ideology has infiltrated almost all Western academia.
The far left is just as dangerous as the far right. Perhaps, even more so, due to it's insidious nature. The common misconception is that there is no extreme left, which is extraordinarily dangerous in of itself.
