Quotes About Bias

The bias of the universities has deep historical roots. As early as the 1930s, conservatives were warning of the increasing radicalism of the college professors.

Republicans compose only 32 percent of the law school faculty, according to the study.57 No wonder most lawyers are leftists.

Polls show that while students who just finished high school believe in an active God at a rate of 77 percent, once students reach the level of postgraduate education, that rate drops to 65 percent.70 This may be due to youthful arrogance; more likely, it is due, at least in large part, to the anti-God bias of the universities.

Thomas Sowell says, "When the rule of law is seen as a bias . . . the principles of the American Constitution [have been] quietly repealed.

Leftists argue that professorial bias is irrelevant to their teaching. They say that even if a professor is liberal, he or she will undoubtedly offer a balanced view. This is blatantly false. As they do in the mainstream media, liberals dominate the "higher education" scene. And just as in the media, the liberal tilt is extremely real and extremely influential.

most professors—and not just those in the political and social science departments—don't even aspire to present a balanced perspective.

College students are attacked with bias from the moment they step on campus until the time they leave it. The effect is devastating.

The Democrats running the universities don't separate politics and teaching.

The liberal media hates Republicans, the military, and Israel.

At the university level, this perspective is commonplace – and that leads to ideological discrimination.

Calling you a racist and sexist, a bigot and a homophobe, gives them a sense of satisfaction with their status in the universe, even if they never help a single individual human being.

any other, was disgusted, and attended his preaching no more.

The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

The reflex of police officers, when making the decision whether to use force and on what scale, must not be a result of instinctive bias, but on objective and discernible factors. As the enforcers of law and order, they have to adhere to the letter of the law and minimize the taints of biases and life long social conditioning.

There are a lot of people - and time does this - who are going to be severely embarrassed for their bias and intolerance. And they're going to have to live with that; that's going to be their legacy. I refuse to have that as part of my legacy.

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

I'm not saying this is all men, but in my experience as a woman, I'm not taken as seriously in a leadership role regardless of how good I am at what I'm doing.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.

Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.