"ME JUST STUPID CONSERVATIVE"

There’s nothing quite like a liberal who, in a moment of weakness, actually says what he thinks instead of keeping to himself until he gets to one of those tony cocktail parties in Manhattan where everyone thinks just like him. Just one of these happy moments occurred at Duke University this week.

It seems the Duke Conservative Union published an open letter to the University president claiming a lack of diversity at Duke:

“In the advertisement, formatted as an open letter to President Nan Keohane, DCU alleged that a number of humanities departments "have become increasingly politicized over the past few decades" and, furthermore, that this politicization has had "a significant impact on the daily workings of their faculty members."
The advertisement listed the break-down of faculty members' political affiliations--Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated--for each of eight humanities departments, based on a cross-reference of Duke's departmental faculty lists with North Carolina voter registration records. According to DCU, 142 of the faculty members and deans included in the survey are registered Democrats, 28 are unaffiliated and 8 are registered Republicans.”

Of course, the liberal professors jumped all over this with every obfuscation they could come up with. But one Robert Brandon, chair of the philosophy department, got all excited and accidentally said what he believed:

“We try to hire the best, smartest people available," Brandon said of his philosophy hires. "If, as John Stuart Mill said, stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire.

"Mill's analysis may go some way towards explaining the power of the Republican party in our society and the relative scarcity of Republicans in academia. Players in the NBA tend to be taller than average. There is a good reason for this. Members of academia tend to be a bit smarter than average. There is a good reason for this too."

Oh, conservatives are stupid!! Being one myself, I didn’t have the intelligence to realize that!!

Thanks for the heads up, Professor!!

You S.O.B.