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Megan McArdle lays the hard truth down in her blog.
That is right. The cultural elites just sneer at the hard working Conservative top 10% from their ivory towers and Hollywood mansions. While they are happy to take these conservatives money from them in taxes, but when it comes time to give them a place at the table, like say in biology, the conservative is shown the door. All in all conservatives are treated like they were black employees just hired to pretend you follow equal opportunity. Nothing more than blatant anti-Caucasian racism.
Essentially we have been segregated into Caucasian gated community ghettos, our children driven out of the public school system into private religious schools were they have to wear special uniforms. Our churches driven from the public square and court room. Is this the kind of America the Founding Fathers wanted? Were if a REAL American lights up a cigar and speaks his mind he would be denounced as a sexist thug and arrested for violating smoking bans?
Now the last gate out of the white ghetto has been shut; the community activists,, illegal immigrants were aided by white Quislings of the left formed a majority to force an illegal president down our throats. That is right, the White House, the special preserve of REAL Americans, guaranteed by our Constitution has been ripped away from us! The left just turned us into the new negro; force to toil in Massa Obama's board rooms or cubicles for our quota of taxes.
The walls are up my fellow wolverines, how long before we are on the plantation chain gang?
I’ve been reading the debates touched off by Julian Sanchez’s post on “a systematic trend toward “epistemic closure” in the modern conservative movement”. I’m nervous about wading in because almost anything I say is bound to offend someone I like. I’m especially sensitive—perhaps oversensitive—to the way that anything I proceed to say about conservative people outside the northeast runs the risk of sounding a lot like that fifties moderate whose work one occasionally comes across: “Of course, I just love negroes—they’re all so musical and I don’t know how I’d get my house cleaned without our Bessie. But why can’t they be a little more patient about this civil rights mess?”
Conservatives are, not to overlabor the obvious, marginalized in the cultural elite, even though they are powerful in the political elite. (At least some of the time, anyway). Obviously there's been an enormous amount of ink shed about why this is, but my experience of talking to people who might have liked to go to grad school or work in Hollywood, but went and did something else instead, is that it is simply hogwash when liberals earnestly assure me that the disparity exists mostly because conservatives are different, and maybe dumber. People didn't try because they sensed that it would be both socially isolating, and professionally dangerous, to be a conservative in institutions as overwhelmingly liberal as academia and media.
It's actually fascinating to watch the inversion of liberal and conservative positions on this one. Liberals essentially seem to be saying that hey, they don't all get together in the tenure committee and agree to deny any conservatives tenure. I believe them! But I'm not sure why they think this means that the disparity is therefore not a problem. As I wrote years ago, somewhere, I doubt many bank hiring committees in the fifties got together and voted not to hire any negro bank managers. Yet, somehow, they didn't hire any negro bank managers.
Conservatives are, not to overlabor the obvious, marginalized in the cultural elite, even though they are powerful in the political elite. (At least some of the time, anyway). Obviously there's been an enormous amount of ink shed about why this is, but my experience of talking to people who might have liked to go to grad school or work in Hollywood, but went and did something else instead, is that it is simply hogwash when liberals earnestly assure me that the disparity exists mostly because conservatives are different, and maybe dumber. People didn't try because they sensed that it would be both socially isolating, and professionally dangerous, to be a conservative in institutions as overwhelmingly liberal as academia and media.
It's actually fascinating to watch the inversion of liberal and conservative positions on this one. Liberals essentially seem to be saying that hey, they don't all get together in the tenure committee and agree to deny any conservatives tenure. I believe them! But I'm not sure why they think this means that the disparity is therefore not a problem. As I wrote years ago, somewhere, I doubt many bank hiring committees in the fifties got together and voted not to hire any negro bank managers. Yet, somehow, they didn't hire any negro bank managers.
Essentially we have been segregated into Caucasian gated community ghettos, our children driven out of the public school system into private religious schools were they have to wear special uniforms. Our churches driven from the public square and court room. Is this the kind of America the Founding Fathers wanted? Were if a REAL American lights up a cigar and speaks his mind he would be denounced as a sexist thug and arrested for violating smoking bans?
Now the last gate out of the white ghetto has been shut; the community activists,, illegal immigrants were aided by white Quislings of the left formed a majority to force an illegal president down our throats. That is right, the White House, the special preserve of REAL Americans, guaranteed by our Constitution has been ripped away from us! The left just turned us into the new negro; force to toil in Massa Obama's board rooms or cubicles for our quota of taxes.
The walls are up my fellow wolverines, how long before we are on the plantation chain gang?