Harvard grads warned: The suppression of conservative views in academia is a new McCarthyism, says … Mike Bloomberg

From Hot Air:

“It is just a modern form of McCarthyism,” Bloomberg said of university “censorship” of conservatives. “Think about the irony: In the 1950s, the right wing was attempting to repress left wing ideas. Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species.”

“And that is probably nowhere more true than it is here in the Ivy League,” declared Bloomberg…

“In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data, 96% of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees went to Barack Obama,” he said. “There was more disagreement among the old Soviet politburo than there is among Ivy League donors.”…

“Neither party has a monopoly of truth or God on its side. When 96% of Ivy League donors prefer one candidate to another, you really have to wonder whether students are being exposed to the diversity of views that a great university should offer,” Bloomberg continued, occasionally being interrupted by moderate applause.

If you’re wondering why this guy would go to bat for conservatives in a venue like this, it’s probably because Bloomy understands that he’s not liberal enough for true believers in the perfect progressive society. Yes, he wants to ban guns and supports gay marriage and believes in climate change and defended the Ground Zero mosque (all of which he was careful to remind the audience of today in defending the right to dissent), but he’s also one of the world’s richest people and an ally of Wall Street, a bad thing to be now that the left’s decided that income inequality is America’s Most Important Challenge.

This is a variant of Crony Capitalism. Bloomberg is smart enough to predict his money will eventually in the sights of the tax and spend liberal, who populate academia and Congress. Like all Rich men, who MADE their fortune, he wants to KEEP his money.