cstr20cstr

I was just thinking; I attended a university and college where almost all my liberal arts "professors" preached Socialism and Communism, and how "greedy" the "right-wing" Capitalist U.S. was.

Yet, last year, 2 of the richest Americans, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, committed themselves to donate most of their wealth to worthy causes. Additionally, there's that word that leftists don't like to mention "philanthropy", where other rich people donate billions to the poor and worthy causes. For example :
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...onations_x.htm
And America as a whole donates more to the UN and other nations than any other nation.

Now my point is, how much money do pro-Communist "professors" donate to the poor and worthy causes (excluding left-wing activist donations) ?

Addititionally, pro-Communist "professors" preach the most greedy form of government there could be. Socialist and Communist governments seek to take the land, resources, and wealth from the people, and give it all to THEMSELVES.

So that's my point of their GREAT hypocracy. Anyone see a flaw in this ?

bry623

None at all, professors have what they want: fresh sponge like minds ready to abosorb whatever they put into them.

cstr20cstr

Glad to say, my mind wasn't a sponge when it came to their political brainwashing attempts.

bry623

You and me both. I majored in U.S. History in college and only got one B in all of the classes that I took. I walked out on a lecture when the prof talked baout how homosexuality was more excepted during the renaissance and we need to make it just as acceptable today. Nothing wrong with people fallign in love with the person of their choosing or anything, but I wasn't paying for an editorial.

cstr20cstr

Anyone by chance have any numbers or figures on how much pro-Communist "professors" donate to the poor and charity ?
I'm sure they donate money to left-wing radical organizations, but how about the poor ?

yustr

Just so you know - the TSF liberal standard bearer (yours truly) went to the most conservative of the CA state universities. In fact it was the only one Gov. Ronny would come to - he gave the commencement address there almost every year he was Governor. I never felt obliged to walk out of a class even when professors were saying how great nuclear power was or how we should all go get jobs at large defense firms, or that liberal arts were for people to dumb to become engineers. So it works both ways.

What universities are supposed to do is instill the curiosity to want to acquire knowledge and to provide you the tools to do so. Sadly, it doesn’t appear that that’s the case.

And cstr: do you happen to know how much university presidents and regents gave to Republicans? Didn't think so...

bruiser

yustr, what is the answer to the question about much university presidents and regents give to Republicans? I'd like to know, and you seem to know the answer.

bry623

I doubt he knows as he was making a counter point to cstr. A better question would be how many profs would admit their comnuistic ways?

Nik00117

Commuism is a failed system.

I know poeple talk of the flithly rich, and the greedy poeple etc etc etc.

And I can't help but wonder, did those people earn it or steal it?

Normally they earned it. You earn it you get it, its not handed to you.

40sondacurb

how do you expect someone to answer that? Why not just ask how many people have they driven to ask a really bad question. I know it's at least one, but there's no way of knowing the answer.

Zazula

Some people around here have absolutely NO idea what communism is; they simply define it as "whatever is not conservative (in our sense)". This is outrageous (and ridiculous). If you're going to use political terminology, then you'd better know what you're talking about. I'm sick and tired of Americans describing the whole Europe as "communistic", whatever links to social provisions as "communistic", all those prosperous, hyper-developed countries (like Scandinavian ones etc) as "communistic".

cstr20cstr

Sounds like you're the one who's stereotyping..
Where did I ever say "Communism is anything that's not conservative" ?

I was talking about pro-Communist professors; and you're trying to spin my point.

cstr20cstr

I doubt much if anything, seeing how universities have a propensity for hireing hard-left "professors".

cstr20cstr

It's interesting how people left of center are quick to try changing the subject, or creating counterpoints, rather than admitting this possible hypocracy exists.....

40sondacurb

It's also interesting how they're not making threads trying to get people to admit whether something is possible rather than making an actual argument for whatever the hell they're trying to say.

Hey cstr20cstr is it possible Bush believes in abortion? Is it possible Regan didn't actually want to cut taxes? Is it possible Gingrich believes in big government?

Gee I sure showed you's republicans, there's all kinds of possible shtuff you righty's may or may not be doing. Give me a Pulitzer!

cstr20cstr

As a matter of fact, it is possible Bush believes in abortion, in cases of rape or a woman's life is in danger.

As a matter of fact Reagan didn't cut all taxes, so I guess there's some he preferred.

As a matter of fact, it is possible Newt wanted some big government, after all, the military is a part of government.

As a matter of fact, it is possible Bush lied about the Iraq war, but I'd like to see some hard facts proving it.

At least I'm willing to admit these things.

You see, I'm more of center-right. I'll attack BOTH sides if they're doing something wrong. On the other hand, radical leftists are NOT willing to admit something like the topic of this thread.
Instead they either try changing the subject, try turning the tables, or avoid it all together.

mikeber

The original poster brings examples of individuals. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (and possibly others) donate money because they want to. The argument between capitalism and communism is about principles. There are thousands of self declared communists who may be bad, selfish people, but that would not change the argument. There are also millions of poor capitalists. So what?
The question is about sharing wealth in society. Why there are so large gaps in income (gaps that are only getting wider with time).
Is it OK to keep the minimum wage at $5 or $7, while executives (such as in the example of Ford) are getting paid $28 million for 4 months of work, at companies that are not profitable?
The college professor may be greedy, cheap, selfish and self centered, yet he can still have an opinion.

40sondacurb

You see that's where we disagree, because I don't think you'll find anyone who won't admit to this, anything's possible!

I tried so hard to avoid the cliche but you're just not getting it. Is it possible your commie pinko teacher is hypocrite? Who gives a flying TWIBAT because you don't have anything to prove whether he is or isn't.

Attacking both sides is a poor substitute for backing up your TWIBAT.

cstr20cstr

That's true. But you miss the whole point of the thread. These radical left-wing professors are HYPOCRITICAL in their opinions.
They preach how "selfish" and "greedy" rich Capitalists are; when in fact that's a stereotype as proven already. And yet, pro-Communist "professors" aren't (probably in most cases) donating to the poor a lot themselves.

cstr20cstr

It really gets under your nerve this hypocracy is pointed out; and leftists are not willing to admit it. Pro-Communist "professors" preach how "greedy" "right-wing" Capitalists are, even though rich Capitalists donate BILLIONS to the poor and worthy causes yearly, and how much do pro-Communist "professors" donate to the poor ? if anything ?

As far as I know, the only thing pro-Communist "professors" donate to the poor (and their students) is class warfare, jealousy, half-truths, lies, and hatred.