According to this recent gem from "Fox and Friends" resident hack - Tucker Carlson. Having an education is "likely to skew your political views" and turn you into a liberal.
But all is not lost - frightened conservative students out there. The argument offered in this clip is fucking absurd. The host asks Tucker for the evidence, albeit following the insipid "I agree with whatever comes out of my panellists mouth as long as its fits the chosen narrative" Fox News interview technique. Tucker's laboured response to this simple question deliberately trys to confuse two distinct issues.
On the one hand he says, "alot of college kids don't know even basic civics". Fine, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the assertion that education makes you liberal. Later he says "then you ask them about their social values and the study shows they become more liberal after four years in college -We know that."
He doesnt at any point actually offer us the evidence for this and admits himself he doesnt know anything about the methodology of the study. I bet a quid this is on the Daily Show on monday.
Oh and enjoy the pre-clip advertizment as well (if it remains the same), it really takes anthropomorphism for the purpose of banal product endorsments to a whole new level..
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4016232/college-skews-political-spectrum
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But no Chris! Carlson is right! Of course people get more liberal after college. And why? Because college is an institution for education, and education is about transmission of facts, and the fact is that the Left is better than the Right.
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Well, I wouldn't get too excited about people becoming more liberal in college. A few years back, when I was in undergrad and the world was still young, some study said that people's views mostly did not change in college despite their professor's excessive liberalness, although they did become more temperant/tolerant of other's views. Inevitably, though, when you aren't an ignorant f*cktard anymore, its hard to support something like the John Birch Society.
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