Conservatives who loathe liberalism at universities

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Re: Conservatives who loathe liberalism at universities

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Perhaps a slight hyperbolization. If we track education and liberalism, the result is a positive slope - liberalism and education are positively correlated. We get a negative slope when tracking education and conservatism. There's a good reason for that.

The conclusion is that the cure for conservatism is greater education. While there are certainly educated conservatives, after a certain threshold the conservatism seems to drop off.



What we have here, of course, are nothing more than the vague, self satisfied musings of a bigot who, as much of his posting history makes clear, has little if any idea of what "intellect" really is or what "education" really means and implies.

I frankly don't think Buffalo has much of a coherent or organized understanding of just what modern conservatism is, or what it believes, beyond the typical cartoon conceptualization common to vast numbers of leftists holding views similar to his.

It is, indeed, one of the great blessings of the conservative mind and temperament that we tend to devour and seek a substantial working knowledge of the views of our opponents, while most leftists, as was recently demonstrated here on another thread, would rather burn books they disagree with, if only symbolically, than read them.

It is, alas, all of a piece.
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Re: Conservatives who loathe liberalism at universities

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Wow, Droopy. This is kinda like getting up in the morning and going outside for the newspaper, only to find that every structure in the village has been tagged with graffiti.
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Re: Conservatives who loathe liberalism at universities

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Morley wrote:Wow, Droopy. This is kinda like getting up in the morning and going outside for the newspaper, only to find that every structure in the village has been tagged with graffiti.


At least Buffalo has fun house mirror to look into.
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Re: Conservatives who loathe liberalism at universities

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Blixa wrote:
Morley wrote:Wow, Droopy. This is kinda like getting up in the morning and going outside for the newspaper, only to find that every structure in the village has been tagged with graffiti.


At least Buffalo has fun house mirror to look into.



At this point, I'm quite used to the idea of leftists getting together in a glass bubble to vent their prejudices and fears against what they term, "conservatism."

I also understand that they don't like it when someone comes by and and starts throwing rocks at the fragile shell from within which they posture.
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