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sir drinks-a-lot said:
Not buying it.
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I don't give a **** what you buy or don't buy. It's the truth.
The opinions of people like you mean as much to me as the gum I stepped on.


Hers isn't the only story either. If you want, you can even look it up your own damn self instead of gloating about someone else's misfortune.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Schools and colleges 'indoctrinate', whereas being taught by your parents at home to uncritically accept all of their own personal beliefs is 'education'.
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In some mystic alternative universe only. Here it is ****-headed to believe.
 
Only in 'Murcia.

Personally I am so pleased to see the next generation being politically active, and passionate
 
To add some relevant points to the OP:
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/20...esidential-field-in-donations-from-educators/

You could say Hillary Clinton is a teacher’s pet.
As students return to class from summer break, their teachers, professors and school administrators are following a historical pattern: Those in education tend to give more to Democrats than Republicans. Individuals in the field donated $64.5 million during the last presidential election cycle, and more than three-quarters of their contributions went to Democratic candidates.
In the 2016 cycle so far, Clinton is the clear favorite for academics who have given to presidential hopefuls. The former Secretary of State had received about $1.2 million from the education industry as of June 30 out of a total fundraising haul of $47.5 million, making educators her fifth-largest donor. (No. 1? Lawyers and law firms, with $4.6 million.)
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s for Republicans in the presidential race, they’re not so well-loved by educators, it seems.
Obama’s two Republican opponents trailed far behind the president in terms of donations from the industry in 2008 and 2012: John McCain and Mitt Romney received $1.8 million and $4 million, respectively.
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It's a 2015 article so it dates back to the primaries but it's relevant to some of what the OP is getting at.

I can state anecdotally that my professors are by vast majority hard core to the left and made no bones about sending myself scathing criticisms for making counterarguments about Clinton. And like many here, they are currently making no bones about being pissed off about the results or about insulting the half of the electorate that propelled Trump. So none of the article actually surprises me.

In fact, i recalls the day Obama took the oath of office our university pretty much paused all classes to broadcast the inauguration. Needless to say, part of the reason was that history was in the making as the first African American POTUS, but given the melodrama that educational institutions are laying out already I'm fairly certain they have other ideas in mind on the day Trump takes the oath.

The donation trends would certainly back up quite a bit of the notions that point out a lack of political diversity in the education system.
 
Grizzly Bear said:
The donation trends would certainly back up quite a bit of the notions that point out a lack of political diversity in the education system.
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The lack of self-awareness about the implications of this tilt are what amuse me. What exactly do universities expect to happen under a Republican administration when they prove themselves implacably hostile to Republicans? Do they really think there won't be any implications for government funding?
 
Ziggurat said:
What exactly do universities expect to happen under a Republican administration when they prove themselves implacably hostile to Republicans?
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A government that doesn't punish them out of spite and vindictiveness?
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
Not buying it.
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Tough, it's happening. My black SiL and the Muslim woman in line behind her were hassled the whole time they were in line to vote. In Minnesota. SiL's daughter was given a bus pass at her middle school. Bus pass back to Africa.
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If you don't think the ugly and the nasty is happening right NOW, you're (the generic you) not watching the news or following not following the news online.
 
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3point14 said:
It sounds to me as if the OP believes that the entire US education system is designed to indoctrinate students rather than to educate them.
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The entire US public ed system is based on a Prussian system which Prussians adopted around 1807 after Napoleon wiped them at Jena. That system was not intended to produce self-reliant people; it was meant to produce cannon fodder and bricks in the wall.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=11375
 
NoahFence said:
You queers are going back in the closet now.
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Donald Trump is offering queers more or less the same deal they have in Russia.

They WILL be protected to the full extent of the law. But it is unlikely they will be allowed to go on trying to recruit and proselytize or conduct techniques of gayety classes in public schools.

The demmunists on the other hand, in their manic drive to import new voting blocks (since nobody with any brains or talent in our own country can be counted on to go on voting for them in perpetuity), are attempting to bring in vast hordes and swarms of people whose known policies towards gays is to simply kill them.

The good news is that increasing numbers of gay people are now figuring this out.

What happened in this election is that the internet itself came of age; people with real information actually became a voting majority.
 
icebear said:
The entire US public ed system is based on a Prussian system which Prussians adopted around 1807 after Napoleon wiped them at Jena. That system was not intended to produce self-reliant people; it was meant to produce cannon fodder and bricks in the wall.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=11375
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Oh for **** sake shut the hell up with your propaganda noise.

And have a nice day.
 
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icebear said:
They WILL be protected to the full extent of the law. But it is unlikely they will be allowed to go on trying to recruit and proselytize or conduct techniques of gayety classes in public schools.
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I agree that it's very unlikely, given that none of them have ever done this.
 
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