Reply #49: conservative "viewpoints"

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have to be backed up by facts in order to be valid. I spent several years in academia. I failed both liberal and conservative students who were sloppy in their work. Idealogues of either stripe were often so narcissistic that they failed to do the WORK needed to support a claim.

The university where I worked had some of the best libraries in the world. The law library was open to all, the archives were open to all. If students simply relied on information culled from the main library or from magazines and opinions, their grades were reduced. They had to show some initiative in gathering data.

I can't even begin to imagine what kind of crap is turned out by students these days who rely solely on internet sources that are themselves constructed of speculative arguments and discredited "facts".

The first thing every totalitarian government does, whether left or right, is destroy the intelligensia--that way, you don't have pesky things like science and philosophy getting in your way.

If you don't like a certain class or a particular professor's take on a subject, then switch. Capitalism works in the university as well.