Harvard Discriminates Against Republican s?

“Conservatives have long complained about the small number of Republicans on the faculty at Harvard.

My best guess is that this is the result of differences in innate ability.

You don't have white men in the NBA, you don't have Jewish farmers and you don't have Republican professors at Harvard. (I know there are Jewish farmers on the kibbutzim, but there are also Republicans in the Business School.)

The facts are indisputable: In the 2004 election, Harvard employees gave more than $1 million to the Democrats and only about $43,000 to the Republicans. That's 96 percent Democratic.

So why do so few Republicans excel on the Harvard faculty--home over the years to forty-one Nobel laureates?

Scientists say there are definite differences between our brains. Republican brains tend to be better at creative accounting, while Democrats are better at postmodern theory.

Some Republican groups say there are no innate differences. For them, it all comes down to bias and discrimination. If we teach young Republicans just the way we teach young Democrats, and give them the same opportunities, they can succeed.

But other Republicans have been willing to concede that Republicans may be hard-wired to earn gigantic salaries for doing essentially nothing. Republicans may simply lack the drive to try to meet the eighty-hour workweeks demanded of top Shakespeare scholars.

Of course there are other factors, such as socialization.

Republicans are brought up by parents who value insider trading but not gender studies, corporate welfare but not postcolonial theory.

Now Republicans have succeeded at raising the issue of their exclusion from the Harvard faculty. But that very success could create new problems. Other groups will sense Harvard's vulnerability to outside pressure. Where will it stop? What will Harvard do if it faces a campaign claiming the school has to hire more women?

- Jon Wiener”

“MOOOOOOOOOHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!”

“Let's see ... The top money makers are Republicans (big business folks), yet the top scholars (he claims) are Democrats.

That tells me that they have a problem with "application". A fancy degree doesn't mean squat if you can't apply what you learned. Sounds like if the Republicans truly are not as gifted, they must work a lot harder and be better at using common sense. The Democrats are apparently a bunch of slackers.

(I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat)”

“That's an interesting statistic (if it's true) about the political donations. The rest of the article I hope was meant to be humorous. Hard to tell with low-brow liberal humor, though.”

“Hey, it's a dirty job and someone's got to do it!”

“Maybe they WERE normal people when they arrived but the aliens in Harvard took them out at night and reprogrammed them ala Stepford Wives and turned them into Demoncrats.

There was an incredibly bad movie where this happened in a high school - maybe it is a true story LOL.

Perhaps a study should be made to see how long it takes to morph a Republican into a Democrat in a Harvard environment.

Sheesh!! how some creatures will camoflage themselves to just to survive.

We need a Letterman 10 reasons why on this -”

“In 2000, the Republicans had a choice between controlling Harvard or controlling the U.S. House, Senate, and Presidency. The Republicans chose the later.

In 2004, the Democrats had the choice, and they chose the former.

Thank God.”

“LOL! Good one, prosecutor.”