Why are so many teachers and professors liberal

It all starts with Education.. They have one..😷

Typically liberals, as youths, are the anti-social, non-athletic, over parented, over complimented, over pushed and under-loved children.

They participate less in group activities and have a less balanced connection to aspects of heroism, fortitude, strength, faith, group reliance, leadership, social dynamics, discovery, innovation, curiousity, family, success and failure.

Thus, the lack of balance and lack of a "place in society" make them ideal to gravitate to jobs (like teaching) where they can live inside a bubble of self-assurance and smugness that they actually are not unbalanced ... that it is really the successful, innovative, brave, athletic, hardworking, attractive, family oriented, God loving patriots that are unbalanced.

They aren't liberal in the classic sense of the word. Most are authoritarian conformists today, they have a dogma and do not want it challenged. Back in the day they fought against the establishment and now they are the establishment.

If your pay check comes from the state you support a big state

It started out as a genuine and sincere attempt to address some of the obvious and clear racial, gender, and class inequalities that were apparent after the civil rights movements of the 60-70's.

At some point, by my reckoning in the 90's, it turned ugly and sour and became anti white, and anti white male propaganda, unmoored from the real world.

Now they promote such ideals as a way to get minorities to attend these schools, and indoctrinate them into that way of thinking.

I agree and then impose their beliefs on students.

Where I lived they made good money for only working a few months of the year and a lot of vacation time.

Liberal used to mean "free thinking". Today it means conformity.

I think it might be dependent on the subject matter but I think people who like to teach tend to have certain trends of values and are high in things like trait openness which makes them open-minded. I assume you might mean left as the US tends to associate libertarian and left as one thing. Academia tends to find new ways of looking at things also which would follow that hypothesis of academics and teachers being more left-leaning value-wise.

Maybe it is the "safer" side if they had to pick one.

Sure people get offended no matter what but the goal in some cases is to offend the fewest amount.

too stupid to get a real job? 🤔

Higher IQ on average. The higher your IQ the more likely u are 2b atheist and progressive.

The Union dictates their beliefs

Open to ideas and learning.

I had a social studies teacher who was proud of himself for writing a protest song against Bush and read it out loud to the class.

I guess they are in a profession that suggests people who are invested in have more potential rather than people who live in fear of change.

Yeah it's like why are a lot conservatives often uneducated and poor as shit or really really rich. I mean even the middle class conservatives are often just glorified tradies.

Thats actually a good question

The unbiased answer is that acedemia tends to be a place where alternative ideas to the status quo have more room to breath. Also acedemics being in the buisiness of ideas over the buisiness of well, buisiness don't have as much tying them to the status quo.