Talk is cheap

It sounds incredibly familiar:

Let me give you an example of the professional man who keeps other men down. If you work in - or are involved in - academia, you will know what I mean. There are a number of older guys, in their sixties or so, who worked with the civil rights movement and considered this their heyday. They are now full professors who pride themselves on helping women and minorities get ahead. They come into every faculty meeting harping about the need to give a step-up to the women in the department or they demand that a minority be hired for some position, meanwhile overlooking the qualified men who should also be in the running. You, the young, untenured guy in the department, often wonder why this deadwood won't step down if he cares so much - and give up his much-coveted chair to some minority. But no such luck, the guy is reveling in his position and perks, all the while demanding that men like you give up the right to theirs. You realize that if this traitor was looking to get hired as tenured faculty today, he might not stand a chance. Does this sound all too familiar?

This phenomenon is no different from the tendency of liberals to give less money away to charity than conservatives. the majority of the left-wing edifice is built on taking the personal and abstracting it away into a social issue. Rather than personally take up the charge to feed and clothe the poor, they will insist on creating a government program and paying more in taxes. That is easier than having to change budgets and then find good charities and support their efforts. It's better that they "enable someone else," usually a "professional," to do that work for them.

They may say that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, but those are cheap words when the hypocrisy is coming from someone who not only has the ability to make or break your career, but is unashamed of their own hypocrisy.