When first I heard that a University of Michigan professor had slandered Republicans, it didn’t come as a surprise since university and college faculties have long been havens for liberals, and conservative students have recently been recording their classroom propaganda.
Susan J. Douglas, a professor of communications at Michigan, decided to take her “hate” to a little-known nonprofit magazine, In These Times.* Her piece later found its way on line.
Susan J. Douglas, a professor of communications at the University of Michigan, expressed her hate for Republications in print.
“I hate Republicans. I can’t stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz , Darrell Issa or any of the legions of other blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal “personhood,” she wrote.
Her loathing was couched in a typical feminist rant regarding the question of marrying a Republican. Her brand of Republican – a moderate dating back to the 1960 and 1970s – is “now extinct,” she wrote. I say, thank goodness.
She vilified Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the GOP for smearing the Clintons and President Obama, and Republicans for their “complete repudiation” of the Democrat Party as having any legitimacy at all.
Isn’t it interesting how she has selective amnesia when it comes to the words and actions of liberal Senators Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Alan Grayson, to mention a few.
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Conservatives want to reverse the changes of the Obama administration while rejecting that “hope” is a requirement in doing so. (eubrainwashing.blogspot.com)
“The two core dimensions of conservative thought,” she says, “are resistance to change and support for inequality.” Ridiculous. We have resisted the move to socialism, and reject the thought that inequality can be solved through more handouts. I guess Douglas missed the recent report that income inequality is greatest in the most liberal states. These states have supported redistributionist policies, spending the most on transfer programs and imposing higher taxes.
Conservatives are not resistant to change. Our change removes the element of “hope” and would reverse liberal policies that have slowed private-sector growth and severely regulated businesses, factors that have hurt the upward mobility of middle-class families.
Incidentally, if you need further examples of the left-leaning thoughts of Douglas, you might want to look for her other writings: Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work is Done, and The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Undermines Women.
* In The Times is a publication that professes to bring you fearless, uncompromising journalism that challenges corporate power and makes real impact in the lives of working people and those fighting for social change.
