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In reply to the discussion: The shocking truth: Obama's top 2012 campaign contributor [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)are usually where people engage in Liberal discussion. Nothing is off limits and very little is censored. People can express their views more openly, without being ostracized. Public Universities also have a Policy of diversity. Conservatives are very much against that type of environment. Public Universities have been very much involved in social movements within this country. I learned a lot of my ideas in a Public University and how I thought about things in this country and around the World. They are also places where you do a lot of educational research instead of taking the propaganda some want to put out. Especially that research report put out by the Heritage Foundation on the superiority of Whites versus Hispanics. Anybody with a good education would know he probably manipulated it. What he put out was just racist period. Skin color does not make someone superior period. It has nothing to do with intelligence at all. There are many factors that determine intelligence. If you go by his premise, Chinese are superior to whites because they statistically out perform them in school. But we all know it is the efforts they put into learning and has nothing to do with their skin color. We also know some individuals out perform others of all races. We also know it has something to do with the environment, such as poverty versus wealth and opportunity. A person living in poverty will have less opportunity than a person living in wealth. They need to consider why people think the Republican Party is racist. Could it be there are some well educated and smart people on the other side, like students from Public Universities? Some of the sit ins during the Civil Rights Era in North carolina was initiated and organized on college campuses. And why do you think the right keep calling Liberal Whites Elitists.