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You know because you know everyone on this thread saying it’s a right wing echo chamber is right wing according to you
originally posted by: SeenItBelieveIt
a reply to: Grambler
You just can't help yourself can you. Triggered by an emoji, and one I use to mockingly because certain right-wing posters always use them, glad you agree that they actually convey a lack of confidence and desperation for each post to be liked.
You know because you know everyone on this thread saying it’s a right wing echo chamber is right wing according to you
Where did I say this? Yet another fake assumption in a failing thread.
this thread turned into a right wing echo chamber.
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I just did a quick count and couldn't find a single left wing supporter, confirms its a right wing echo chamber.
originally posted by: Grambler
And because right wing views are severely underrepresnted in academia, the media, the entertainment industry, and now increasingly in silicon valley, we must smear any place they may want to voice their opinions as right wing echo chambers.
If we compare figures 1 and 2, we see that the professoriate was changing while the electorate as a whole was not. Professors were more liberal than the country in 1990, but only by about 11 percentage points. By 2013, the gap had tripled; it is now more than 30 points. It seems reasonable to conclude that it is academics who shifted, as there is no equivalent movement among the masses whatsoever.
The people who shape the minds of America’s students have long leaned left, on average. But students who entered college before 1990 could count on the fact that their professors did not all vote the same way or hold the same views on the controversial issues of the day. Students who arrived after 2005 could make no such assumption. For example, Figure 3 is from Jon Haidt’s recent post plotting new data on the policy views of social psychologists, on nine culture war issues (such as abortion and gay marriage).
Only one social psychologist, out of a sample of 327, had views that were right of center. This graph is incompatible with Krugman’s hypothesis that professors didn’t change their views, they just changed their labels.
I’d like to end this post on a personal note. I joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College in 2010. When I told my friends from graduate school about my new job, they warned me to keep my head down and avoid discussing political topics with other faculty. This suggestion course, was hard to follow as I was explicitly hired to teach American politics at Sarah Lawrence College, a college which happens to be one of our nation’s most well-known progressive and politically active institutions. I will never forget my second day of teaching at the College where I was called a right-wing wingnut. That accusation was made without any hesitation when I pointed out that an empirical trend suggested a very different policy outcome than what was being discussed around a lunch table. I teach and have long-followed the Daniel Patrick Moynihan mantra of “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” It is important to follow this both intellectually and pedagogically and I continue to push this idea regularly in the face of dissent.
This is what happens when viewpoint diversity disappears and orthodoxy reigns. When faculty in the social sciences can no longer have open discussions among themselves about political issues because dissent from the progressive stance is treated as treason, then what kind of political extremism and intolerance will we breed among our students? The answer, unfortunately, became clear in the demands that students issued on campus after campus last Fall, and in the cruelty and aggression some of them showed to anyone they deemed to be an opponent.
Orthodoxy is fundamentally incompatible with the mission of a university. Increasing viewpoint diversity should be at the top of every college president’s priority list.
originally posted by: SeenItBelieveIt
a reply to: Grambler
LOL!
So your proof is me mocking your fake count and pulling numbers out of the air?
You really are reaching now.
I just did a quick count and couldn't find a single left wing supporter, confirms its a right wing echo chamber.
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: SeenItBelieveIt
This thread is comedy gold! So, in summary you and the rest of the left-leaning members will not relent until Grambler admits this thread and ATS in general is a right wing echo chamber. Absolutely priceless!
originally posted by: JDmOKI
a reply to: TinySickTears
Go try to be even slightly right leaning on reddit and come back and tell me if ats is toxic to the left.
originally posted by: JDmOKI
a reply to: TinySickTears
Go try to be even slightly right leaning on reddit and come back and tell me if ats is toxic to the left.
originally posted by: TinySickTears
a reply to: Grambler
If not a chamber there are definitely people pushing their agenda.
We got a thread titled Notre Dame was almost definitely not an accident.
No body to the post at all and still getting a star.
Hilarious