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Small group of people and woke up the next day, hundreds of responses and people were posting it in the internal chat sessions at google and microsoft and the responses i would say are not surprising, but when you put numbers against, it its pretty shocking. steve: look at the numbers on this basic workplace ideology, what do you find? >> we found that overwhelmingly, regardless if you are on the left side of the spectrum or the right, people view the technology company as leftist. steve: they a...

Small group of people and woke up the next day, hundreds of responses and people were posting it in the internal chat sessions at google and microsoft and the responses i would say are not surprising, but when you put numbers against, it its pretty shocking. steve: look at the numbers on this basic workplace ideology, what do you find? >> we found that overwhelmingly, regardless if you are on the left side of the spectrum or the right, people view the technology company as leftist. steve: they a...

From around 45% identifying as liberal in 1969 to nearly 06% in 2013. now they dont call themselves liberals. they call themselves progressives. and it could get worse. here to discuss is visiting assistant professor of economics at barry college philip magness. thank you very much for joining us this morning. first off, why this shift? we all think of higher education as liberal. why are you saying its getting more liberal? >> right. thanks again for having me. a couple things. if you look at t...

Self-identify as liberal it came at the expense -- there was a decline simultaneously not only conservatives but faculty members identify as moderates. pete: why? is that a concerted effort? >> i dont think there is any like design behind it but rather my theory is that it comes from a growth in hiring in certain fields, certain academic disciplines, mostly in the humanities and social sciences that tend to be a bit more overtly political and they tend to lean on the left in higher rates than th...

His tax bill. its replete with breaks for corporate america and for businesses like the one he owns. so if we can just hammer that home and get people to believe that the democrats are actually with them and working for them, i think its a winning strategy. >> very quickly, are there any particular places just off the top of head where the president campaigning might be backfiring? >> well, alex, i dont know how to answer that question. i think that in terms of what happened in alabama, that was...

From. i dont know if you noticed but a couple of the girls had huge, gigantic, fake wings. [laughter] to people used to fly? greg: is amazing. there are angels. thats like hot angel land. i guess. three, is cultural appropriation everywhere to check everything we do is taking from some other culture. >> yes because we live in a western civilization and thats the point of western civilization is that we have a long history of appropriating things. in ways that are nice and sometimes in ways that ...

I was working out and it was quiet night. [laughter] but its an important story. its the exact opposite of something happening at brown university. get this according to the college the school is changing its grad school application to allow students to self identify as persons of colors so to sum this up in a social justice for years world a white girl cant for the headdress of a certain culture but she can totally identify as them. it makes perfect sense. isnt that right, captain verbal? i wou...

I was working out and it was quiet night. [laughter] but its an important story. its the exact opposite of something happening at brown university. get this according to the college the school is changing its grad school application to allow students to self identify as persons of colors so to sum this up in a social justice for years world a white girl cant for the headdress of a certain culture but she can totally identify as them. it makes perfect sense. isnt that right, captain verbal? i wou...

I was working out and it was quiet night. [laughter] but its an important story. its the exact opposite of something happening at brown university. get this according to the college the school is changing its grad school application to allow students to self identify as persons of colors so to sum this up in a social justice for years world a white girl cant for the headdress of a certain culture but she can totally identify as them. it makes perfect sense. isnt that right, captain verbal? i wou...

From. i dont know if you noticed but a couple of the girls had huge, gigantic, fake wings. [laughter] to people used to fly? greg: is amazing. there are angels. thats like hot angel land. i guess. three, is cultural appropriation everywhere to check everything we do is taking from some other culture. >> yes because we live in a western civilization and thats the point of western civilization is that we have a long history of appropriating things. in ways that are nice and sometimes in ways that ...