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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Labor Day Weekend 2010: Why Some People are Leftists

Joliet Junior College, Oldest Public Community College in the U.S. 

Andrew Sullivan has been running a series of posts about people’s jobs on his blog, The Daily Dish.   Today’s Dish includes the blog, “About My Job: The Community College Professor.” Here’s the first paragraph.  It’s worth reading the whole piece.  (It’s about economics and empathy and the “American Dream.”)

I believe the assumption is that instructors are the product of a liberal-biased education and then we decide to join that liberal bastion and are just going with the established flow. For those of us in the junior college ranks, however, I think there is a more concrete reason for the lean left, rather than the abstract leftism offered in certain courses we took as students.

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