This thread is just the latest instance here of the "universities are bastions of leftist/commie thought and ought either to be burned to the ground, or at the very least, ought to have one really conservative prof for every really liberal prof (terms to be defined by us)".
This argument is advanced by folks who have never studied at university, or have studied very little, or who are activist conservative or Republicans such as the folks in the links up above. How, if so many have never been near a university, do they come to believe this, and forward it wielding the same terms and notions and cliches? A recently published email from Michael Scanlon, formerly Tom DeLay's chief aide provides a very transparent window onto how this all gets done.
Quote: "The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."
Whether a phone-tree of activist christians, or whether a linked group of rightwing internet sites for those not particularly religious, the tricks are the same. Deceive the "wackos" so they will behave in ways that serve your purpose.
It will be a source of great joy when some of you folks get a handle on how - and how much - you are being manipulated by people like Scanlon, DeLay, Abramoff, Horowitz, etc.
