Republicans Outnumbered in Academia, Studies Find

An article published in the NYT identifies an apparent problem with the outcome of these studies; namely, that conservative faculty (seeking tenure) are subject to discrimination and students are subject to a biased education. How do we know this discrimination and bias is occurring? We don't, but it must be occurring given the overwhelming number of Democrat academics. Such implied causation is disturbing.

The final paragraph of the article, which quotes a disgruntled (Conservative) student, is a case in point:

"I'm glad to get the liberal perspective, but it would be nice to get the other side, too," said Kelly Coyne, the editor of [a Conservative student] magazine and a senior majoring in political science. "I'm really having a hard time finding courses my last year. I don't want to spend another semester listening to lectures about victims of American oppression."

So what is the lesson? There are many, but one that is particularly apt is that many "faith-based" Conservatives operate on the perverted premise that if one disapproves of what the facts teach us (e.g., it might be the case that many important events in our history involve oppression), then a solution is to blame the teacher, and accuse the teacher of a political agenda. It could be bias, or in the infamous words of Colonel Nathan Jessep, it could be that those faith-based pinheads can't handle the truth. There is an interesting irony in quoting Colonel Jessep, which one can only appreciate by reading entire the quote.