It is simply cruel to post this without giving the slightest hint as to where these centrist professors can be found. My friends in academia have cut contact after I mildly criticized Pritzker on FB. I’d love to meet a few centrist profs who can survive an occasional criticism of Pritzker.
“Formerly centrist types”. Says it all. Academic living in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
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“these centrist professors”
Who apparently can’t count since they don’t seem to understand the number discrepancy between university professors and those who are angry at them……
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They had polls for ten years telling them they were the majority, and they don’t personally know anybody who admits any conservative views out loud (because they’ve made their professional and personal environments so hostile) so this is a convincing model of reality for them. It’s why they still believe that if they boycott something, it’ll make a difference, and that it is right and good to cut off friends and family who don’t agree with them. That only makes sense if you also believe that people like you are the overwhelming majority: most people basically agree with you, so anybody who doesn’t is some kind of aberration.
It still hasn’t registered that the polls were wrong all that time. Polling companies skew left, and they tell their leftie bosses what they want to hear. If you want your polls to reflect any kind of objective truth… it helps if you hire people who value that.
This is why Trump freaks them out so much. They honestly still believe they are a majority (except maybe the ones doing the massive vote fraud: they’re realists), so they can’t figure out how we ended up with Trump. Does not compute.
“they don’t personally know anybody who admits any conservative views out loud…they can’t figure out how we ended up with Trump”
Like the quote attributed to Pauline Kael: “I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”
(Actually that’s not quite what she said but it’s a fairly accurate summary).
LOL, some people simply cannot or will not measure, and there is sweet bugger all that we do about it ;-D
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wondering
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I had dinner with a bunch of librarians the other day and let me tell you, the Right is not prepared for them!
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Dunno about that.
I have seen a lot of discussion, and even planning, in the last couple years about reviving the private subscription library. The consensus is: whatever’s coming out of the library degree programs the last twenty years has deliberately ruined public libraries for all library purposes: they are now repositories of gross left propaganda, and day-rooms for the fent-zombie hordes. For at least the last three years, the only reason I’ve gone there was to raid the little store where they sell off the discards: it’s where all the good books are. Last time I was there, I picked up a volume of Grimm illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in pristine condition, for a dollar.
This is a shame, because public libraries are also repositories of publicly-accessible local history documents, legal documents, census records, etc. that will become inaccessible to the public, once the new librarians have accomplished their apparent goal: getting the library system defunded and shut down, because nobody uses it anymore and it’s now an unsafe public nuisance.
It’s funny, back in the day when I worked at the public library, I really, truly believed in the whole library mission of democratizing access to information and culture, Information wants to be free etc. That was back when librarians were heroically resisting the Patriot Act. I don’t want to think about what they’ve done to the place since: it was such a great library.
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I think I shared this before but I have a colleague who is conducting research into why all librarians are gay or queer. If a right-winger said all librarians are gay, we’d never hear the end of it. But the colleague is a self-described Communist so it’s fine.
This is off-topic but I find it extraordinary how easy it is for people to say they are Communists or Socialists right in front of me. Everybody’s historical experience and trauma count except ours. We are not entitled even to simple politeness. Once on campus people put up a picture of hammer and sickle. I wasn’t having a good day, so I freaked out, ripped it off and tore it to pieces. There was one colleague who did apologize but the rest just stood there and pouted. These are the same people who would go to pieces over the Confederate flag even though there are no people who actually experienced slavery or the American civil war.
And I’m totally with you on raiding the discards store. I snagged some veritable treasures that way.
My town has four branches of the Pine’s Library System (Georgia’s Library). Of those, there are two that I have gone to regularly since I was about six years old.
One of the two which I no longer visit is the Central Branch and well quite frankly I have no idea how bad it currently is as I stopped going to it years ago. The other branch used to be a hidden building, never more than a dozen people there, with three very, very old slow computers. It was extremely quiet and I loved it dearly.
They moved that branch onto a major road and into a bigger building, they added more and newer computers a couple of dozen of them, expanded well everything really.
I still go to that branch, but here is what I see. The books I used to read are …. not well organized and are well in bad shape frankly, with no new copies and no new additions. The library is constantly filled with layabouts and homeless individuals. And quite frankly it is no longer a place of peace.
Methylethyl is quite correct, most of the new additions are almost all leftist propaganda or quite frankly abominations worth only burning.
These days, I typically go in, grab what I am looking for and leave. Oh I doubt anyone in the building would try to rob me. Well not inside anyway, but I no longer feel comfortable sitting in a chair and reading for a bit before leaving.
If that branch has gotten that bad, I can only imagine how bad the Central Branch has become, seeing as it was located at the heart of the city.
Well, it appears that most of us are well read. Despite my efforts to give them away, my wife’s and my own rather eclectic collections still amounts to many thousands of books and journals. And fortunately, the city’s new library is just across from the cop shop (RCMP office), so there are no derelicts moving in.
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