The student-run independent The Wake Report has published a story that has gone national about a psychology professor who taught her students that conservatives are “guilty, anxious, and unable to handle stress well as children.” Conversely, liberals are generally “resourceful, independent, self-reliant, and confident as children.” Assistant professor S. Mason Garrison expressed surprise that students “interpreted” the description as “negative” and caused “discomfort.” Apparently, many would take being called “guilty” and “unable to handle stress” as comforting and positive.
What is most striking about the controversy is the astonishment that Professor Garrison expresses about the reaction of conservatives to her online Personality course description as “guilty, anxious, and unable to handle stress well as children.” After changing the language, Garrison told the student reporters:
“I apologize if my statements were interpreted as negatively characterizing conservative students. I was unaware that my comments had caused any feelings of marginalization, and I sincerely regret any harm or discomfort they may have caused.”
It strains credulity to suggest that the disparaging terms were just a matter of interpretation as “negatively characterizing conservative students.”
The response of Department of Psychology Chair Christy Buchanan to The Report was little better. Buchanan stated
“[s]ometimes misunderstandings occur in the course of human interactions, including those that occur in the classroom. I trust that both the department’s and Dr. Garrison’s responsiveness to the concerns brought forth in the current situation demonstrates the department values of and commitment to creating a safe and inclusive experience for all students.”
Buchanan also ignores the obvious bias, and false characterization of conservatives, including many students at Wake Forest. Rather than deal with such political prejudice, Buchanan adopts the same implausible suggestion that this was a “misunderstanding” and matter of interpretation.
It is a common pattern. When faculty on the left say controversial statements they tend to be ignored or rationalized. When conservative faculty make such statements, there is often a very different response from investigations to suspensions to even terminations.
I do not believe that Garrison should be terminated or sanctioned. However, it would be helpful if she or someone at the school would acknowledge the obvious rather than insult not just the sensibilities but the intelligence of conservative students and faculty.
It is also worth noting that the student reporters identified the source that Garrison cited for this clearly dubious claim as an article in the American Journal of Political Science titled Correlation not causation: the relationship between personality traits and political ideologies. However, the study appears to refute the very point made by Professor Garrison. The authors find that “personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes.” Indeed, the summary of their paper states:
“These findings cast doubt on the assumed causal relationship between personality and politics. Here we test the causal relationship between personality traits and political attitudes using a direction of causation structural model on a genetically informative sample. The results suggest that personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes; rather, the correlation between the two is a function of an innate common underlying genetic factor.”
Thus, not only does Garrison show obvious prejudice in describing conservatives on her slides, but she appeared to distort the actual findings of the report due to a possible confirmation bias confirming her own preconceptions.
I think the good professor forgot to add:
“Conservatives are also racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and generally wicked nazis”.
S@@tlibs, did I forget something? Please advise.
And if we are as bad as you alledge, surely you would have no objection to secession?
I do not want to understand, dialogue or reconcile with these people, I want a DIVORCE.
antonio
We are no longer a serious society.
cionnath,
The scary part is when they can get people to accept the absurd, they can get them to commit atrocities.
Conservative???
Liberal is the diametric opposite of an American.
What the —- do you think the American Founders and Framers were, disciples of Karl Marx? Do you know what country you’re in? The Constitution and Bill of Rights are the very definition of conservative.
Communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) are the direct and mortal enemies of the American thesis of Freedom Through Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans and America.
Start here. Who the —- would allow an 18-year-old to do anything that matters? Who the —- would allow an 18-year-old to do something as important as vote? Who the —- would allow dependents and parasites on the public dole and affirmative action to vote. Who would allow enemies to immigrate into America? Most certainly not the conservative American Founders and Framers.
The singular American failure has been and continues to be the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court, which has completely failed to support the words, meaning and intent of the Constitution and Bill of Rights since 1860, a duty it swore an oath to fulfill. American freedom persisted for a mere 71 years.
Unlike George, I strongly support the expansion of freedom, liberty, and voting rights since 1860 with the adoption of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, and 26th amendments to the Constitution.
Like Karl Marx’s BFF and Comrade General Secretary “Crazy Abe” Lincoln, you disparage hate, deny and subvert the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
You are a direct and mortal enemy of the American thesis, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans and America.
Secession was and remains fully constitutional and you have not and cannot produce any prohibition of secession in the Constitution – meaning everything Lincoln did after his initial crime was and remains similarly illicit, illegal, illegitimate and unconstitutional to this day.
What you are saying is that all that need happen is for the next conservative president to nullify the Constitution, declare martial law, seize all power, suspend habeas corpus, and arbitrarily amend the Constitution through the liberal application of brute, kinetic, military force, with a gun to America’s head, causing the deaths of a million Americans and committing the same physical and constitutional atrocities that “Crazy Abe” Lincoln did.
That would de facto restore conservative, constitutional America, wouldn’t it.
I am somehow a “direct and mortal enemy to the American thesis, the Constitution” etc when you are the one who actually opposes several amendments to the Constitution adopted after 1860.
Comrade, your “Reconstruction Amendments” are the first step by Lincoln et al. toward Karl Marx’s “RECONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIAL WORLD.” I don’t find amending the Constitution with a gun to America’s head, while the nation is under the duress of brutal, post-war, military occupation, tyranny and oppression in the section of the Constitution that describes the amendment process, while the “president” is grossly derelict and subversive in his refusal to enforce extant immigration law, leaving a three million man standing enemy army on the ground in America and allowing its members to vote. How many Union soldiers would have simply stayed home if Lincoln hadn’t put conscription “enforcers” out on their trails. The reason you’re defending it is that it is so blatantly illicit, illegal, illegitimate and unconstitutional, it needs defending. Even Chief Justice Taney told Lincoln he was unconstitutional. Lincoln acted directly for Karl Marx and Karl Marx said so (read Karl, Lincoln’s BFF, at 6:18 PM).
Your comrade, “Crazy Abe,” threw the baby out with the bathwater. He threw the U.S. Constitution out with reprehensible slavery. No one disagreed that slavery had to be abolished but it had to be done legally – not by killing a million Americans. In a society of laws, laws must be obeyed. Slavery was initiated by law and it had to be terminated by law. And extant immigration law must have been adhered to. Who doubts that the overwhelming desire of normal abductees is immediate repatriation? They just wanna go home.
You state that “no one disagreed that slavery had to be abolished”. Certainly the states of the Confederacy disagreed.
RECONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIAL WORLD
“They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.”
– Karl Marx, Letter to Lincoln, 1864
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BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL EPA DICTATES PRODUCT PRODUCTION AND PURCHASES
Where is the Supreme Court? Biden and EPA must be immediately struck down by Judicial Review regarding the unconstitutional denial of freedom, the free markets and unconstitutional regulation of free markets. Biden and Congress, the executive and legislative branches, have NO power to deny free markets to Americans or to regulate product marketing or purchases. The EPA is unconstitutional and the EPA enjoys no constitutional basis. EPA rules carry no constitutional weight or force.
Americans enjoy the rights and freedoms of “the pursuit of happiness,” endeavor and free enterprise per the 9th Amendment. Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure only.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax ONLY for debt, defense and “…general Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual welfare, specific welfare, particular welfare, favor or charity. The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY money, the “flow” of commerce, and land and naval Forces. Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property is not qualified by the Constitution and is, therefore, absolute, allowing Congress no power to claim or exercise dominion over private property, the sole exception being the power to “take” private property for public use. If the right to private property is not absolute, there is no private property, and all property is public.
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“Biden proposes toughest auto emissions rules yet to dramatically boost EV sales”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed new tailpipe emissions limits that could require as much as 67% of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. by 2032 to be all-electric.
The proposed limits would surpass President Joe Biden’s previous commitment to have EVs make up roughly 50% of cars sold by 2030 and accelerate the country’s clean energy transition. EV sales accounted for only 5.8% of all the 13.8 million new vehicles sold in the country last year, an increase from 3.1% the year before, according to Kelley Blue Book data.
– CNBC
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Marbury v. Madison
“A Law repugnant to the Constitution is void.” With these words written by Chief Justice Marshall, the Supreme Court for the first time declared unconstitutional a law passed by Congress and signed by the President. Nothing stated in the Constitution gave the Court this specific power. Marshall, however, believed that the Supreme Court should have a role equal to those of the other two branches of government.
– National Archives
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9th Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Woke psychology professors are …..
In the same cited article in AJPS: “It has also been suggested that conservatism should be associated with high levels of anxiety, a major component of the personality trait Neuroticism. This link, however, has eluded empirical validation (Eaves and Eysenck 1974; Fromm 1947; Kline and Cooper 1984; Ray 1972; Wilson 1973; Wilson and Brazendale 1973). Intriguingly, the empirical link between ideology and Neuroticism suggests the relationship is actually between certain facets of liberalism and Neuroticism (Gerber et al. 2010; Van Hiel, Pandelaere, and Duriez 2004; Verhulst, Hatemi, and Martin 2010). These empirical relationships have been replicated across time and in different political contexts.”
Is this post by Turley an example of what he calls the age of rage? Nothing from Turley when Rep Greene calls democrats pedophiles. Nothing from Turley when everyday, right-wing pod and radio broadcasters call democrats every name in the book. But heaven forbid if one teacher or anyone says anything about the right-wing, then oh boy, that’s rage from the left. Turley loves feeding the grievances and victimization that the right-wing loves to exploit.
FishCult — You’re a racist. You’re an extremist. And a fascist. And a misogynist. And a homophobe. And a pedo. And you’re in a cult.
Democrats are pedophiles.
“Suck my tongue” said Dalai Lama to a little boy who asked him for a hug.
Don’t even get us started on Joe Biden’s inappropriate behavior.
Where’s Epstein’s client list?
Where are the manifestos for the Trans mass shooters? Why are they being protected?
FishCult is Raaaaciiiiiist.
Do I have to remind you that you do not have to show your ignorance everyday? It’s well established. And thanks for taking the time to translate your message from it’s original Russian.
Is that comment xenophobic FishCult?
Yes, yes it is.
Of course, when FishWings can’t make a reasonable argument he will call you a Putin puppet. FishWings this might have worked in the past but after the demise of RussiaGate people are no longer buying the lie. Catch up. Duh uh, Duh uh Russia stooge Russia stoooge Duh Uh.
…”psychology professor who taught her students that conservatives are “guilty, anxious, and unable to handle stress well as children.”
Example No. 1? Anonymous
“FishCult — You’re a racist. You’re an extremist. And a fascist. And a misogynist. And a homophobe. And a pedo. And you’re in a cult.
Democrats are pedophiles.
“Suck my tongue” said Dalai Lama to a little boy who asked him for a hug.
Don’t even get us started on Joe Biden’s inappropriate behavior.
Where’s Epstein’s client list?
Where are the manifestos for the Trans mass shooters? Why are they being protected?
FishCult is Raaaaciiiiiist.”
Professor Garrison wasn’t wrong. Just look at the visceral reaction from Anonymous. The stress from the guilt must be overwhelming.
FishCult — Quit yer whining. Go get your daily dose of mind-control-extremist-cult-programming over there on MSNBC.
FishWings, you have openly stated that you want books depicting oral sex by children to remain on the shelves of school libraries. Due to your stance how could we not see that you are in favor of child pornography. You call their removal from school libraries a banning of books even though you know that the same books are available for purchase on Amazon. If I say that you are happy with the distribution of pornography to children means that I am calling you a pedophile then so be it. If it is not so then please inform us of your objection to such material in the schools. If you have no such objection then you are what you are and we see what you are.
TiT, clearly you’re obsessed with pornography. It seems you’re more into it than everyone else. You’re the only one who keeps mentioning it.
TiT,
Thank you for bringing up our woke leftist friends previous comments desire to groom 6 year olds with pornography and inappropriate for age drag queen shows.
Facts. Things our woke leftists friends cannot withstand.
It is like sunshine to a vampire.
He also doesn’t comment on the fact that Ashley Biden reported that Joe Biden used to shower with her.
“I apologize…and I sincerely regret any harm or discomfort they may have caused.”
What a crock of merda di cavallo!
Svelaz at 12:12 pm. Professors class future students should be made aware that she teaches that conservatives are psychologically inferior.”
Well the professor isn’t wrong. Hullbobby keeps proving her point. The whining is pure unadulterated proof. What more would you need.” So Svelaz once again proves that his is a superior mind. Instead of being concerned about discrimination he treats us to an attack. You see, to Svelaz every black conservative is psychologically impaired. Every black conservatives who has become a renowned figure in his or her field of study is psychologically impaired. Every great black athlete who is a conservatives is psychologically impaired. Every great female swimmer who doesn’t think it’s fair to have to compete against a man is psychologically impaired. Yes sir, Svelaz has it all wrapped and tied up with a lovely rainbow bow. Me thinks that Svelaz has had one to many Bud Lites this morning while deciding what kiddie porn should be allowed in K-12 schools. What does Svelaz have to offer? Hullbobby, is proof that conservatives are psychologically impaired. What a guy! Oops, I meant to say what a “them”
TiT,
Dang.
That is a lot of psychologically impaired people.
I prefer to refer to the thing called Sleezevez (in reference to your kiddie porn observation) as “it.”
UpstateFarmer, Svelaz wants us to believe that groomers school is just a place where people go to learn to give haircuts. On more then one occasion he has said that because kids can just find porn on the internet that we shouldn’t be concerned about kiddie porn in schools. It’s not hard to see inside a persons mind when he leaves the door open.
TiT,
After reading some of their comments, defense of porn available to children in elementary school, drag queen shows for 6 year olds, I cannot help but think,
“What is wrong with you?”
Then I recall a comment I made in response to Ron A Hoffman about how we might have a national mental health crisis.
It fits.
UpState Farmer, thanks for the warm welcome a few days ago. Speaking of warmth, our cold snap is no longer and so we do not need you to send us your highly prized firewood. Maybe next year!
We would be happy to send you our high crime rite, ANTIFA BLM peaceful protestors and irrational university students. Let us know!
😉
Estovir,
You are welcome!
We still might be needing at least another cord or two of the firewood. I will keep some aside for you! 🙂
Ah, yeah, about that high crime rate and the like, I dont think I need that kind of warmth of the fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
However, it is turkey season here!
TiT says, “Instead of being concerned about discrimination he treats us to an attack.” Discrimination? You think describing conservatives as stressed out, guilty messes, prone to whining is discrimination? LOL!!!
Just like Hullbobby, you’re unwittingly proving the professor’s point. That you don’t get it is even funnier.
The fact that you had do resort to defaming me and hurling insults pretty much is all the proof you need of the fact that the professor wasn’t wrong in his observations. Look up Kruger Dunning syndrome.
Svelaz, you can try to white wash it all you want but you have said in the past that porn in schools is no big deal because kids can just find it on the internet. If using your own words is an attack then I stand guilty as charged. I ask you. Have you said what I say you have said or not and if so please further defend your position. You either approve of such material in schools or you do not. So if I point out what you have said in the past it’s an attack. Perhaps you should just be more honest and stand up and own what you have said instead of running and hiding behind “you just say bad things about me boo hoo hoo.”
TiT,
“Svelaz, you can try to white wash it all you want but you have said in the past that porn in schools is no big deal because kids can just find it on the internet.”
Lying about something I didn’t say is the first sign that you have no argument.
I never said it was ok to have porn in schools. You’re saying that. Not I.
Based on your twisted reasoning there’s porn in the Bible too. Church allows porn in Sunday school and teaches children it’s important to know that porn is ok as long as it’s in the Bible. Your reasoning would make that God’s honest truth. Riiiiight TiT! Right?
See how easy it is. Christians love porn as much as the next guy.
TiT,
Another epic take down of Sleezevez!
Nice!
Keep up the good work! We need to stand against this mental illness as displayed by Sleezevez and the woke leftists. We need to fight against the evil they would bring upon children as young as 6 years old. Fight against the alternative reality they try to force upon us. Fight against them with facts, common sense, civility, respectability (of which they have none), responsibility, and a healthy dose of patriotism.
At this time, I would like to thank Sleezevez and his like for opening my eyes to the kind of insanity, absurdity, down right ill-logical and ill-liberalism that has griped the Democrat party. If it was not for them, I would not ever consider to vote for any Republican in the 2024 election be it Trump or DeSantis, Haley, Gabbard, etc. !!!
As Bill Maher said, he did not leave the party, the party left him.
And just as a friendly reminder, deli meat is more appealing then Biden!
Ham sandwich, 2024!
Svelaz, my advice is to recall the civility rule and simply ignore hullbobby, etc.
I apply the same to Sleezevez.
Just scroll past.
Although, reading some of Lin’s, John Say’s take downs of it are rather entertaining.
DAvid wants the guy that comments 200 times on every issue to ignore a guy that finds it annoying. David, go watch MSNBC so you can feel good about yourself.
There’s a civility rule? Or is it a suggestion? It seems it’s more of the latter.
If the Civility Rule, referenced at the top of this page near the depiction of the conservative American Founders, were ever enforced, NUTCHACHACHA would never be allowed to appear on this blog again, ungrateful and extremely effective beneficiary of welfare and affirmative action programs that she is.
Would have been fine if the professor had also cited a few academic studies that pointed at her conclusion, but it sounds like she was just winging it.
Of course, she shouldn’t be fired or disciplined. But she has created a problem–what if kids, in response, wear MAGA hats or other emblems of the GOP or conservatism. Now they get to question the fairness of her grades.
When I was in college, prior to class, we were debating abortion rights–I am an atheist, but I am very pro-life. The professor, a woman, walking in, said that men have no right to an opinion on the matter, which is offensive and sexist. I was forced to withdraw from the class. Weak.
Voodoo psychology — basically the opposite of science.
But what if it’s true?! (Even if it hurts.)
Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-the-mental-health-of-liberal
This is actually very alarming, and concerning.
As a whole, the nation does appear to be in a serious mental health crisis.
Personally I think it has to do with social media, time spent in front of screens (yes, I get the irony while I type this, however, winter season is “off season” for me), disconnection from nature/the great outdoors, exercise, the nuclear family/fatherless house holds, diet, to name a few.
The nation is having a mental breakdown, me thinks, and perhaps is suicidal judging from what I’m seeing these days. I know Xi et al must be loving it.
Mary,
Some say it is external influencers that caused voter interference in the 2016 election. I think everyone knew who they were voting for 5 minutes after the conventions concluded.
Those remaining % were not enough to swing the vote either way.
Having said that, the fall out of the 2016 election, the reaction of half of the nation, MSM, Russiagate, I dont think there was any need of any influence or interference by external actors. The DNC and MSM did a better job than any psyops job.
And they are STILL doing it!
What is the Sun Tuz saying? Dont interrupt your enemy when they are committing a grave mistake.
The whole world is looking at what is going on in America and want no part of it. Hence the pivot away from America de-dollarization. They all see it coming and are trying to make sure they dont get any of the mess on themselves.
Well, just to clear about the study: What they’re saying is that an underlying genetic factor is causing the political traits and the political views. They still maintain a relationship between two. Just not a causal one. And I don’t see that Garrison spoke in terms of causation.
That’s not to say that they used the same words Garrison did, or that these kinds of “scientific experiments” are within the bounds of psychology. I see that the authors of the study didn’t identify the “underlying genetic factor.” So, it’s a bit much.
You’re never going enough controls in place for these kinds of things in my view. A scientist in a chemistry lab
You’re never going to have enough controls in place at the outset for these kinds of things. A scientist in a chemistry lab can test two different chemicals under the “same” conditions. And even he or she is never absolutely certain they accounted for all of the variables. And in a chemistry lab, you don’t have to account for the mind as opposed to the brain. Some psychologists don’t wish to deal with such a distinction.
“Thus, not only does Garrison show obvious prejudice in describing conservatives on her slides, but she appeared to distort the actual findings of the report due to a possible confirmation bias confirming her own preconceptions.”
Professor! Say it is not so!
I am shocked a leftist professor like Garrison would distort actual findings confirming her own preconceptions!
And guilty? Of what?
Anxious? Of what?
Unable to handle stress well as children? Anyone want to point out to her it is the leftists who cannot handle stress as young adults let alone as children? Just look at their demands for “safe spaces,” or even allowing a different view point be debated. Oh! No! They cannot have that! The leftists are the ones who have meltdowns, require counseling if someone who has conservative point of view, or defends women’s rights.
Excellent point.
Woke Forest’s Grump
PSYCHOLOGY never was a science and neither was sociology. Obviously they have trouble reading as well as interpreting studies. Having read a lot of psychology and sociology in college and during my years in practice, I can say there are psychologists who are quite straight shooters (pardon the bad pun), results oriented, great psychological history takers, and show good results with their troubled patients and then there are the rest who are agenda driven, get lousy histories and make diagnoses based on their agendas and not to the benefit of the patient. This professor’s interpretation are as useful as trying to gauge your politics and / or anxiety due to whether you like cats or dogs.
This individual obviously needs remedial training on reading, interpreting statistics, and also determining the validity of the studies they choose to read. There is a lot of crap in medical and Psychological / Psychiatric literature today (not new but certainly more pervasive). The scientific scrutiny is just not very rigorous any more and agendas are the order of the day. Maybe this professor used Chat Gpt to do the literature research.
Damn it Turley, you are right. She should not be terminated for her opinions. Terminations for opinion is what they do on the left. Her means of providing for her family should not be interrupted. Interrupting a professors means of providing for his family because of his opinion is what they do on the left. However, I do believe that when reading the description of this Professors class future students should be made aware that she teaches that conservatives are psychologically inferior. A full disclosure should be required. At one time in America some people said that one group of people were psychologically inferior. The group that they were talking about were black.
“Professors class future students should be made aware that she teaches that conservatives are psychologically inferior.”
Well the professor isn’t wrong. Hullbobby keeps proving her point. The whining is pure unadulterated proof. What more would you need?