Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives

New study: university professors admit they would discriminate against conservatives   “ ”It’s not every day that left-leaning academics admit that they would discriminate against conservatives- in this case conservative educators Psychologists Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, based at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, surveyed a roughly representative sample of academics and scholars in social psychology and found that “In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues.” This finding surprised the researchers. The survey questions “were so blatant that I thought we’d get a much lower rate of agreement,” Mr. Inbar said. “Usually you have to be pretty tricky to get people to say they’d discriminate against minorities. One question, according to the researchers, “asked whether, in choosing between two equally qualified job candidates for one job opening, they would be inclined to vote for the more liberal candidate (i.e., over the conservative).” More than a third of the respondents said they would discriminate against the conservative candidate. One respondent wrote in that if department members “could figure out who was a conservative, they would be sure not to hire them.” But wait— Mr. Inbar, who volunteered for the Obama campaign in 2008, cautions (with an almost child-like lack of guile) that the finding reflects only what respondents said they would do — not necessarily what they actually would do in real life . Oh, that's a horse of a different color.  They only said they wouldn't hire a conservative.   ”