Liberals get served by David Gelernter:

Given the liberal craze for maneuvering women into fields where they evidently don't want to be, it was refreshing to find UCLA history professor Russell Jacoby addressing the topic of letting people do what they want. The conservative American Spectator quoted Jacoby on the oversupply of Democrats on college faculties:

"More leftists undoubtedly inhabit institutions of higher education than they do the FBI or the Pentagon or local police and fire departments. . . . But who or what says every corner of society should reflect the composition of the nation at large? Nothing has shown that higher education discriminates against conservatives, who probably apply in smaller numbers than liberals."

Exactly. Lack of balance on college faculties doesn't automatically prove bigotry.

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[Jake]

"Lack of balance on college faculties doesn't automatically prove bigotry".

If the faculty ratios of leftys to conservatives was 65% to 35%, I might agree with you.

But when the numbers are 90% to 10% or 95% to 5%, conservatives are being black listed.

[mark]

Exactly. Lack of balance on college faculties doesn't automatically prove bigotry.

It seems to be treated as so in the rest of society. Are colleges getting a free pass?