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The problem here is that the faculty is clearly 100% liberal

Believes in an ideology which valorizes greed and selfishness

Complains when fellow believers in that ideology use their education to become fossil fuel execs, Supreme Court justices, and hedge fund managers instead of doing a teaching job which requires more effort and pays way less.

If you take someone with conservative values and you give them a quality education, they become a moderate. If you take someone with progressive values and give them an education they become ~~a socialist~~ very liberal. If you give someone with moderate values an education, they become an MBA. Education selects against conservatives because conservative politics come from ignorance and magical thinking.

I thought these guys believed that universities were run by the sinister cultural marxists? I don't even see a single percent of the faculty following that ideology though. I demand more cultural marxists in universities!

I love how it's in a circle to implicitly deny anything exists outside of liberalism

Hello fellow very liberals

The college thing always feels like such sour grapes. Conservatives have Bob Jones University, Georgetown, Bringham Young, and a whole billion dollar industry of weird little fundamentalist schools that build replicas of Noah's Ark. Yet they still want the clout of all the liberal schools. These conservatives places don't have the reputation of Harvard and Yale because their faculty is full of weird cranks. And I'm gonna guess they get fewer international students because they probably have very racist admission policies (how you can get more racist than Harvard/Yale is impressive).

I have no idea, but my gut says that conservatives who become academics either: 1) complete and utter cranks like Murray Rothbard who only got into academics to be annoying to people or 2) complete and utter cranks with sincere creationism beliefs who want to spread their particular weird evangelism

Also Harvard is a school for libs to convince them working at the CIA is actually a humanitarian project. It's like a soothing balm to wealthy liberals feel better about themselves. Conservatives don't need that, they already don't give a shit and don't need cognitive dissonance. They're already convinced imperialism is good.

The most conservative professors I had in college always worked at the engineering department too, so that could explain why Harvard's so full of libs. The chuds all work at colleges that teach oil drilling science

What a shitty chart, why did they only give respondents one answer to choose between?

federal legislation that requires diversity of thought among faculty members

I mean unironically that would be a step in the right direction because apparently right now 100% of faculty are apparently liberals

Because reality is left so academia (when allowed) skews left. But obviously, our masters can't have leftists in a capitalist country gain any power, so they settle for liberalism, which is still capitalism and therefore right wing, but not so right-wing that you consider flat Earth theory valid.

Completely ignoring the fact that this graph is 0% leftist and therefore very biased towards the very system this person worships

Anytime I see a conservative complain about college professors, I just know they have never stepped in a classroom. Like half of my (outside of the humanities) professors were basic Mitt Romney tier conservatives. Most of the "liberals" would give their lives for a conservative. Unless the professor was LGBT+ or an open ally, they never expressed anything close to a left idea.

My college let people put up fake "abortion" pics and go around with loud speakers bitching about (derogatory sexist terms here). A professor finally got ousted by posting racism on twitter, a bunch of his students and assistants complained about being weird about race, sex, etc, and he got canned. He got his spot back after a year because of tenure. Dude literally compared the nword to people calling Trump orange in class, but hey conservatives are the most oppressed. Economics and history depts were typical conservative/liberal shit. Ironically, the comp sci dept was ok, but the new head was an older tech bro who complained about women not wanting to join their dept. The best teacher they (the CS Dept) had was openly gay, he was pretty cool but strict, and he finally left for an ivy league last I heard. Him and 2 other professors were holding that place together. I bet they're going to tank everything because they won't stand up to conservatives in FL.

TLDR: Academia in America is as a rule extremely conservative.

What a bizarre way to organize the chart. It's not by size, or how conservative or liberal people reported. Is there a reason they'd arrange the sections like this?

Also, I hate "diversity of thought" as a talking point. Conservatives often say they prefer "diversity of thought" over diversity, but is a group of cis white straight dudes really going to have that wide a variety of opinions about gender than your polycule or whatever? Oddly, having people from a wide variety of backgrounds increases diversity of thought.

skill issue

looks like 100% conservative to me

Because fascism is dumb.

This can't be right because 31.8% of faculty isn't on hexbear.

Harvard's Overton window goes from right-wing who pretends to feel bad about it to right-wing who pretends to feel good about it.