One thing I have always liked about DougPetch.com is that Doug is an unabashed champion of the little guy, or the little blog. A constant theme over at DougPetch is how often ideas that get big play on the larger blogs already had a hearing on one or more of the small-fries. (For good examples see this and this.)
Well, this small-fry was interested to read today's opinion piece by Cathy Young in the Boston Globe: A left-wing witch-hunt on campus
THE NOTION of left-wing political bias in the universities is widely pooh-poohed on the left as so much right-wing propaganda -- a smokescreen for an attempt to push a conservative agenda on college campuses. Sure, conservative professors may be a rare breed; but that, we are told, is only because the academy is all about intellectual openness, tolerance of disagreement, robust and untrammeled debate, and all those other intrinsically liberal values that conservatives presumably just don't get.
For a rather dramatic test of this proposition, one need look no further than Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, which is currently in the grip of a witch-hunt that would do the late Joe McCarthy proud -- except that it's directed by a leftist mob.
A valid take on those whose idea of "due process" is a Stalinist show-trial. Then again, I would say that because I have said almost exactly the same before. (See last Wednesday's McCarthyism In Reverse) Now, I'm not saying that Ms. Young is ripping me off. I am saying that blogs like this one, or any of my favorites listed on the right, can give you top quality complaining right up there with any of the large urban dailies.
Isn't that what its all about?
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