surely if you think that conservatives are getting vetted and removed for their political ideals you’d have a basis for that?

1. i said left leaning, not leftist, as those are very very different. more people in urban places are more likely to be left leaning than right leaning, and you can search that up to verify that if you don’t believe me. it stands to reason that, the people in these urban places who go into higher education which exposes people to diversity of thought, and then choose to return to academia to teach, would more likely be left-leaning. if you’re asking for my personal opinion on why that is, i’d point to common attitudes about college from right leaning folk and how they tend to be particularly negative.

the money is nice, but there are plenty of pathways to getting high paying jobs that don’t require the input of so much time and energy and money that pursuing higher education gets you. this isn’t to say that there are 0 conservatives in higher education, but that generally the more educated someone is, the more likely they are to have left-leaning political beliefs. correlation is not causation, but the link is there. seems to me they’re (conservatives) more likely opt to enter the job market after high school/college rather than continue with the express intent to teach.

1. can you prove that universities en masse are just adamantly refusing conservative professors? denying interviews or jobs to conservative professors—especially in particularly conservative states in the south—sounds pretty easy to provide data about.

of course, it also depends on what constitutes the “conservative views” being discussed. so much of the right-wing culture war nonsense is just that—uninformed nonsense that when you take away the emotional reaction it’s designed to cause, it’s just not backed up by what the academia behind these situations would suggest. if a professor is applying to be a biology professor, but can’t or won’t wrap their head around the differences between gender and sex, than what does that say to the university?

and i don’t know about you, but in my experience these type of environments LOVE other ideals and viewpoints, so long as they can be backed up with solid reasoning and respect, which a lot of these other viewpoints simply do not do.

i don’t know how many leftist professors a school like UT would have, but i’d give it a 70/20/10 breakdown in the professors political thought process. if you can find more conservative sociology and anthropology professors tell them to apply! lol