The left-leaning university

The guest is no doubt right. He agrees that professors on the left, regardless of how they describe or label themselves, far outweigh those on the right. He denies that this bias finds its way meaningfully into the classroom, either in the form of indoctrination or in terms of punishing or censoring students who do not toe the party line in terms of repeating the professor's bias in their papers or in essay answers on exams.

I went to UCLA in the Seventies. That was only a few years after the asinine burning of the Bank of America in Santa Barbara. The Equal Rights for Blacks movement was in full swing, Roe vs Wade had occurred in 1973, one year before I entered the school, students were still plucking grapes out of their fruit salads, Ford was still Nixon's "hand-picked, unelected successor", the heart-breaking evacuation of Saigon was yet to happen, and feminism, though it had been around for more than a decade, was flexing its ugly, hormone-drenched muscles and growing stronger every day.

I took science classes as a pre-med student. Under UCLA's pathetic attempt to prop up their academic reputation by making these classes "weed-out classes" ("we get rid of the less-capable students so med schools don't have to"), they swamped us with numbers. Thus, we learned to use our calculators without learning anything about biology, chemistry, or physics. As well, our teachers barely spoke in sentences, thus there was little room for politics in the classroom. I opted to take biology at the Cal State U, where we got a double dose of Green Movement. I think this counts.

We had a chemistry professor who was utterly incoherent and incapable of teaching us chemistry. And by that I mean she was even worse than the other chem professors. She'd get five minutes into her lesson and would have lost almost everyone, even those of us who were listening and trying to learn. We dreaded her classes. The chem department decided, based on her student reviews, that she shouldn't be re-hired. The feminists put up a howl: the only reason, they said, that she wasn't going to get tenure was sexism. They waged a mud-flinging, tarring campaign in which thousands of accusations of primitivism, persecution, discrimination, bias, discrimination, ignorance, and discrimination were thrown at the staff, the students who underrated her, the administration, you name it, their tongues were unleashed and their venom poured forth unabated. I believe the administration, after some bullying from our alcoholic chancellor, gave in and kept her on. What the students got out of this was a thorough indocrtination in all the more idiotic cliches of the feminist movement, and a demonstration of the success of using those cliches. They were told the feminists were right, and events proved them out.

In my history classes I got told that America was crap. In my political science classes, believe it or not, I was left alone. Math and music history and art history were left alone, but my language classes featured professors thoroughly steeped in the attitudes of Eurpoe: America is a bunch of ignorant heathen (except for the natives Americans, of course) who were too stupid to read or know what was God's good truth.

Late in my career I tried to switch to Quantitative Psychology. I took a dozen core psych courses. These had been handed over to the feminist studies students. Yes, every day the professor came into the lecture hall, announced that he wouldn't be teaching because the femiinist studies girls were taking over the class, and for the rest of our time, they indoctrinated us in feminist propaganda. They quoted studies, they showed examples, they brought in slogans that reinforced the "men and women are only different because of social conditioning" line. When I left college I could have quoted so many examples of little boys with cauterized penises who were raised as girls and through parental conditioning the boys thought they were girls, felt like girls, giggled like girls, named their cars like girls, played with dolls like girls. We were positive that there was no difference between boys and girls.

That has got to count.

Outside my pre-med classes, there were the history classes where we learned that