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Propaganda Debunking

Al Carroll

(113 posts)

23. Lubbock as a liberal oasis?

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2014, 07:10 PM

Apr 2014

Texas Tech is in Lubbock. This is about as conservative a town as you can find, mostly fundamentalists. The Mormons there are actually liberals by comparison.

The idea that a professor would need to battle these naïve liberal students is ludicrous. Likely the professor might be the only in the class NOT to believe Obama is a commie.

But yes, no economist, historian, sociologist, etc would have this complete lack of understanding of the most basic terms.

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This professor should be fired for being a complete idiot. The President is NOT a socialist, but lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #1

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After the first exam their would have been an uproar and the prof likely fired. yellowcanine Apr 2014 #21

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Welcome to DU. merrily Apr 2014 #28

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