Dear God, how does one become a "college professor" and remain this much of a total douchebag?
by jdcarmine
Aug 02 2008
9:50 AM
Wonderful! I am a college professor and this is even more stunning when comparing liberals and conservatives. For example, last semester none of my liberal students had even the foggiest notion where Iran was relative to Israel and none could find the West Bank on a map. None knew where China and Russia were relative to the Middle East. But...All the conservative students knew these basic facts which made it easier for conservatives to discuss the significance of the Iraq war whereas the liberals could only spew platitudes about it.
Hey, I know ... let's examine the empirical evidence, shall we? Survey says:
The frequency of Americans’ misperceptions varies significantly depending on their source of news. The percentage of respondents who had one or more of the three misperceptions listed above is shown below.
Well, how about that? Liberals smart, conservatives stupid. How utterly unsurprising. I suggest any of jdcarmine's students demand their money back. They've clearly been ripped off.
13 comments:
Do college professors normally spew platitudes like "spew platitudes"?
"where Iran was relative to Israel.... where China and Russia were relative to the Middle East."
"relative to"?! this clown's a prof like i'm a war president.
KEvron
jdcarmine sounds like it could be this guy.
From profile:
Married three times. Divorced twice. Three children: one teen, one toddler, one infant. PhD SUNY Stony Brook, 1988. Have taught philosophy for 28 years to over 6,000 students from 3rd grade through graduate school. Ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Pittsburgh as endorsed Republican candidate in 2001.
Ie. Bitter, angry, loony.
Good catch, Ti-Guy, because I was about to say that I suspected jdcarmine wasn't even actually a college professor.
I was wrong. He is, or was, a college professor, albeit a very, very dishonest college professor.
He's all over the web, ranting about liberals and Democrats.
Apparently, he's a professor at Carlow University in Pittsburg.
What's amazing is how badly he writes.
"What's amazing is how badly he writes."
relative to how badly he lies....
KEvron
Information disease. It's a wide spread and crippling affliction.
Got it! BT's can't get NPR. CBC didn't even make the list. But I believe you can get Fox in Canada.
How does he know what his students' political views are? Did he ask them? Because that's a really unethical thing for an academic to do.
That, Chet, was precisely why I first doubted he actually was an academic.
Obviously, this is complete bullshit. Quite aside from the fact that numerous polls dispel the contentions made, no respectable academic of any kind would categorize his students as “liberal” and “conservative” camps — the whole notion is totally absurd.
Oh my. Just a bit defensive boys and girls perhaps??? Why don't you just try my little experiment yourselves? Do you know the map of the Middle East, like, say, where is Yemen relative to Oman? What ARE the Golan Heights, I don't know just little things like that.
James opines:
"What ARE the Golan Heights, I don't know just little things like that."
I'm sure you don't, James; I'm sure you don't.
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