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In reply to the discussion: Republicans demanding affirmative action for hiring more republican professors [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)First they want plus or minus 10 percent.
Then they will say it has to be +10 percent for the leading party (their own RepubliCON Party).
Then they will go to 100%.
It is Authoritarianism plain and simple as soon as you require party declaration and mandating party affiliation.
If RepubliCons want more Republicon professors, then they should start funding better public school education in their areas and getting serious about deep learning rather than rote learning and 'skills'.
If they succeed in creating such an unwise faculty requirement, they will make their little island state so undesirable for educated enlightened people that they will start having to pay huge bonus salaries to attract Democratic professors there. But that might just be the plan, so that they will mandate flat salary levels ('commensurate with national averages' or similar) and allow an exception if they can't attract Democratic professors, thereby leading to a top heavy imbalance of substandard Republicon professors.
I think it was the Iowa Legislature that thought it would be a good idea to legislate the value of Pi to be exactly 3 instead of 3.14159....