Dat Liberal Academia

From Aaron Swartz, via Oliver Willis, this is absolutely fucking dead-on brilliant.

A shocking recent study has discovered that only 13% of Stanford professors are Republicans. The authors compare this to the 51% of 2004 voters who selected a Republican for President and argue this is “evidence of discrimination” and that “academic Republicans are being eradicated by academic Democrats”.

Scary as this is, my preliminary research has discovered some even more shocking facts. I have found that only 1% of Stanford professors believe in telepathy (defined as “communication between minds without using the traditional five senses”), compared with 36% of the general population. And less than half a percent believe “people on this earth are sometimes possessed by the devil”, compared with 49% of those outside the ivory tower. And while 25% of Americans believe in astrology (“the position of the stars and planets can affect people’s lives”), I could only find one Stanford professor who would agree.

Isn't it funny? Liberals accept the fact that certain professions tend to attract, or some would say require, those with a more conservative mindset -- you don't hear Democrats whining, "I sent my son into the Marines and now he's being indoctrinated by the right" -- while conservatives continue their thousand-year moan over the liberal nature of college campuses.

Get over it, you fucking cry babies.