Liberal Press Bias - Page 5

On December 07 2008 05:03 Savio wrote:


I imagine you sitting at your Professor's feet gazing up into his wizened eyes as he says these exact words.

On December 07 2008 05:10 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
Does it mention anything about the stratification of wealth between charity-giving democrats and charity-giving republicans?

Because the data I've seen suggests that more liberals give to charity in less amounts, while percentage-wise, less republicans give to charity in larger amounts.

On December 07 2008 05:08 Savio wrote:



I love when people try to say the being liberal means you "really care" and that conservatives don't. Especially because when you look at the data you see the opposite:

Do a google search on whether Republicans or Democrats give more to charity. You will find that it is Republicans. Democrats are pretty generous with tax money taken by coercion, while Republicans tend to be more generous with their own money.

http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm

Excerpt:

"In Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (Basic Books), Arthur C. Brooks finds that religious conservatives are far more charitable than secular liberals, and that those who support the idea that government should redistribute income are among the least likely to dig into their own wallets to help others."

"If liberals persist in their antipathy to religion," Mr. Brooks writes, "the Democrats will become not only the party of secularism, but also the party of uncharity."



And a map of the most generous state in the Union with red being "more generous":




Here is the outcome of the 2004 Presidential race:


Source: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/11/generosity_inde.html

According to this, 28 of the 29 "most generous" states are Red States that voted for President Bush (including all 25 of the "most generous" states)

While 17 of the 21 "least generous" states are Blue States that voted for Senator Kerry (including all 7 of the "least generous" states)




So, what were you just saying about liberals being "more caring" than conservatives?

On December 07 2008 05:13 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
I think it's good that we have this debate. I mean, imagine if you were one of the only liberals on TL.net - wouldn't you make these types of posts?

On December 07 2008 05:10 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
Does it mention anything about the stratification of wealth between charity-giving democrats and charity-giving republicans?

Because the data I've seen suggests that more liberals give to charity in less amounts, while percentage-wise, less conservatives give to charity in larger amounts.

On December 07 2008 05:14 dronebabo wrote:

amen

lol @ liberals being more concerned with the welfare of others
please

On December 07 2008 05:03 Savio wrote:


I imagine you sitting at your Professor's feet gazing up into his wizened eyes as he says these exact words.

On December 07 2008 05:10 Sadist wrote:



Please.

Ive had my views on my own way before i even played starcraft.

All it takes is a little thought and a realization that you and your family and your friends arent the fucking only people in the universe. There are other people out there that are different and your ideas and ideals arent always right. If you actually question what your god damn parents or relatives or church or whatever the fuck turned you into a social conservative told you, youd see how retarded it is. People like that just want to maintain the status-quo because they are comfortable.

PS I'm an Mechanical Engineering major, and The old guard is conservative(because they are whitebread and have money), but nobody my age whos actually grown up in a diverse environment(ie probably around "coloreds" according to you) believes conservatism is worth a damn.

So essentially Jeff Cohen is complaining that liberals are not as liberal as he is.

On December 07 2008 05:24 fusionsdf wrote:


lolol

I'm not in polisci, and none of my professors talk about modern politics

I'm sure its like that for most college/university students. And I dont blindly believe my teachers either,

Your arguement holds no weight. If you wanted to say that polisci students or maybe even history students were liberal because of college indoctrination, you might have a basis

but I dont know about you, I think it would be pretty weird if my professor was all like:

"Ok students today we are going to learn about assembly programming! First though I would like to say that Bush is satan and any conservatives you meet are demon spawn. Ok back to the lesson. So assembly is pretty difficult, but its really not all that...Whats that johnny, the conservative bastards are evil and dont care about anyone? We'll I'm afraid I agree completely with that. They sure a selfish bastards!"

HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO BLIND?!

On December 07 2008 05:21 Savio wrote:


What data do you have?

On December 07 2008 05:28 Savio wrote:



You're right. Its more the humanities where you see the leftist ideas being pushed. There is obviously more reasons why young college students tend to become liberal. One may be that it is farther from "traditional" or "status quo" as we have heard so it is a lot "cooler". Another may be that college students pay almost no tax and are more likely to be recieving help from the government than giving back to government so low taxes are not important but high government spending is.