A Liberal Professor Starts To Learn Why People Want To Open Up

He was all in favor of continuing the lockdown, until suddenly his college announced that the raises professors were expecting would not be given, plus money put into the retirement fund would not be given, either. He was livid. Ending the lockdown isn’t, it seems, about helping billionaires who lost one percent of their wealth get it back. It turns out it’s about helping ordinary people. And of course, he is lucky to be getting a salary at all, but I think that is something he will never figure out.

He also is whining about the contract being broken. But he and others have wanted to break the tacit contract that was made about the lockdown, that it was only being done to flatten the curve and that then we would be free. Instead, he and others have wanted to keep it going until it is safe to open up. Which may be never. He urged that that contract be broken, but now he’s whining about another contract that is being broken, and the only reason he is angry is because this time he is being hurt. I say to him, “Go ahead and sue and see how far you get, because there is probably some clause in there you didn’t notice that lets them do this. So, suck it up.”

Comments

[Harland]

I tried sharing this, only to be shouted down because there is no attribution. No source, just "liberal said this."

You sure he's actually a liberal? I doubt it. Liberals believe in freedom of speech. They might disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Leftists, on the other hand, freely use censorship as a weapon of first resort. Their own positions are so weak that if people are allowed to point out the many problems, they would collapse.

http://liberalismunrelinquished.net

The left hijacked the label liberal, something they have never been. After they ruined and destroyed the meaning they moved on to "progressive".

Left or Liberal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlIjMJBSnRE

What is a Classical Liberal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsba-dNApvw

[John Pepple]

No need to rely on me. Check out this link, whose content is roughly the same:

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/05/15/if-it-saves-just-one-life-journos-sound-alarm-as-coronavirus-related-layoff-wave-starts-to-hit-media-outlets/

It’s about liberals (or progressives, if you wish) whining because the economic effects of the lockdown have finally hit them. In this case, it is journalists, but I suspect that we will be hearing soon enough in venues like the Chronicle of Higher Education about liberal or leftist professors who are complaining bitterly about reductions in their salaries, when they should be cheering at still having a job.

As for how I know he’s a liberal and not a leftist, he’s a friend of many years. If he is a leftist, he is certainly not as far left as I used to be. I would just as soon drop him as a friend, because he and our other liberal friends always want to inject politics into our conversations, but my wife says we need to keep our liberal friends because we have so few other friends.