Yeah...About Graduate School...
So, most of you who follow this blog regularly know that I am working on a second master's degree. I am taking a class that deals with the ethical issues in public policy. Surprisingly, my professor is a liberal.To date, she has never presented material from a non-liberal perspective. I'm not criticizing her as an individual, I am criticizing the fact that I am paying $2000 (OUT OF POCKET---payment plans OF COURSE) to be indoctrinated.
Look, don't misunderstand the afroconservative--I am not afraid to be around smart liberals. Being around liberals who can articulate sentences other than "Democrat's care about poor people" or "We need free health care to save everyone" or (my personal favorite) "Republicans don't care about Black people" is a good thing. I welcome being around people who can articulate view points other than the aforementioned because they will only help me GROW intellectually. It gets kind of tiring mentally roughing people up with facts and DEBUNKING their typical liberal talking points.
To those simpletons, I simply ask them which political party has been controlling the inner city for the last 40 years. I also ask them which political party benefits from the issues in the Black community. Then they change the subject...as liberals usually do when their rudimentary stances are debunked.
So, needless to say, I am highly disappointed. I prayed about it, and God told me to finish the semester. So, I'm going to stick it out. Every time I leave class, I say, "Are you sure GOD? You really want me to do this?"
*sigh*
I always wonder, and I've written this before--but if the conservative perspective is so asinine, why not present both sides of the issues and let the students battle it out. Why monopolize the debate with one side? What are the liberals afraid of? Can someone tell me what the Marxists are threatened by???
One night after we watched a front line documentary about the financial meltdown of 2008, I raised my hand and I prefaced the following statement by talking about how the Clinton administration forced insurance companies to fulfill certain quotas by giving loans to people who weren't in a financial position to pay them back so I continued, "...I also find it very ironic that they had people like Barney Frank [as if he didn't have a hand to play in the debacle] discussing what happened [in the documentary] when he was on the Financial Services oversight committee since 2003." My professor then cut me off and said, "I think we should hear from someone else."
Then I sank in my seat for about 45 minutes. My professor and the students started talking about "greed" and how terrible capitalism is and how the "free markets" don't work! Then they commented on how Hank Paulson [secretary of the treasury under Bush] was such a non-intervention, free-market promoting guy but then he spear-headed the largest bail-out in the history of this country. Blah Blah Blah!
[Sidebar: Um, ah, capitalism allows for corporations to fail. Paulson and others in the Bush administration weren't supposed to interfere and bail these corporations out if the principles of free-market capitalism were applied correctly.]
Okay, back to my life in graduate school...
I didn't say anything until I couldn't take it anymore so I raised my hands and said, "Look, I believe in sensible regulation. I'm simply looking at the housing crisis from different lenses then everyone else. I believe that confiscatory regulation can cause just as much damage, if not more damage then completely unfettered markets. Let's not forget that wealth is not created by government, but wealth is created in the private sector." She simply nodded and didn't comment.
I'm going to finish out the semester. I've received an "A" on everything that I've submitted--I'm just bored out of my freaking mind. I want to be challenged. I want to learn! I want to freaking learn!! Is that too much to ask for?
Regardless of what they say-- or how they impugn conservatives-they will never get an "Amen corner" from this Nappy Head Republican. I ain't beat for that. [slang for: I'm not going to acquiesce to the liberal powers that be].
Posted by Vanessa at 11/4/2009 6:36 PM 
Categories: Academia,About ME
Tags: Liberal Academia Higher Education Bias
Categories: Academia,About ME
Tags: Liberal Academia Higher Education Bias
Love this! Brought back some memories.
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For three out of four years of college, I had an advisor who makes Hillary Clinton look moderate. The A she gave me on an essay where I argued that the Second Great Awakening was NOT masterminded by the ruling class to keep the lower classes in line had to be the most earned A she ever gave me.
I hated that woman.
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I ended up with a reaching degree. I don't teach because I can't stand the union. Of course all the teachers are Libs. I have a real job. Capitalist, Free Enterprise!
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Answer to your questions "What are the liberals afraid of? Can someone tell me what the Marxists are threatened by???"-The Truth.
One question for you, though: what are these "smart liberals" you speak of?
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One question for you, though: what are these "smart liberals" you speak of?
Lol,
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You bring up a lot of valid points about democrats, but I just don't understand how you can put so much faith in the Republican party when they are not any better. America's political system is obviously broken, but it wasn't just the democrats who broke it, the republicans had just as much to do with what we are currently experiencing, and the same distrust you have for democrats you should have for repubs. Dems tax and spend; Repubs Borrow and spend. Both give you their spin on what makes them diffrent from the other party but basically they are the same.
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I have not watched that documentry but I do work in the finance arena, and I can tell you for a fact that we did not have this melt down becuase some people took out mortgages they could not afford. The truth is a lot more complicated than that and I would not have enough space to debate this here. You really need to get out of the conservative, liberal thing and wake up to what's really going on around you. You laugh at liberals for only looking at one side yet you do the same thing. Wish I was in your class cause we would go at it, you blind faith in republican talking points is just as scary as the liberals blind faith in their talking points.
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