This goes beyond liberal professors discriminating against convervative students; as I'm sure it's been pointed out in one of all the posts I didn't read, if the majority of professors were conservative, they would discriminate against liberal students. No, the real problem is that there's an idiotic amount of useless hostility between both sides, useless because, as the posters in this forum know better than anyone, adults are so stubborn that it's impossible to get them to change their views after they've stated them, even if logic dictates they should. There's a tremendous amount of debate in this forum... I wonder how many people have actually changed any of their views by taking part in them. I get the feeling most of the time there's debate just for debate's sake posing as worthwhile debate.
This hostily runs deep and it's hard to overcome it even when we're trying to do it: for example, I've just been stupidly hostile by implying conservatives are not intelligent enough to be professors in my last post, because I ideologically sympathize more with liberals and therefore automatically believe them to be smarter. But, you know, at least I admit it.
Has it ever happened to you that you suddenly dislike a person after you've found out what their political ideas are? I have, and I think it's a stupid reaction and it shouldn't ever happen. Most of the time I've been proven wrong. If I dislike a person it should be because they're low as human beings, not because of something as trivial as what side do they lean to. Assuming things about other people, like, say, assuming someone belongs to a certain idealogy because of something non-critical (or not critical enough) of that ideology they've said, and then choose to ironically ignore the evidence a four year old should be able to see to continue to classify this person, going to such extremes as using them as examples in other discussions, is something I consider not precisely idiotic but low and unworthy of a human being, and I'd despise that person even if we agreed ideologically for doing that.
