Political Scientists say No to Keiko

A group of leading Peruvian and foreign political scientists signed a statement this week to say they believe Keiko Fujimori would be the worst option as leader of Peru. The full statement reads:

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Unfortunately, a well known and accepted (decades old) statistical fact is that, universities are overrun and dominated by far-left Marxists and socialists. It is akin to walking into any mainstream media organization and trying to find a conservative. That may be where the term “needle in a haystack” originated. At least now they have provided us with a list of some of their names. These people are not simple minded enough to actually believe the absurdity of these, unfounded in fact and unsupportable, assumptions and accusations they communally publicize in this statement. But it was nice of them to come out of the closet, and spread their bias opinions, for this occasion.

My only criticism is that they do not, like most liberal-progressive elements, declare their political bias in such statements. I don’t believe it is because they are dishonest. I think it can be explained by realizing that these far-left zealots are so removed, pompous and delusional that they believe they are mainstream. Even though, when their ideas are aired in a free democratic society, they are rejected overwhelmingly. Time and time again. But, it is shameful that these presumably well educated people wouldn’t at least be capable of comprehending that such blanket unsubstantiated statements are the foundation of dogmatic intolerance.

The Hall of Shame:

Rolando Ames, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Julio Cotler, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Henry Pease, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Francisco Miró Quesada, Diario El Comercio
Martín Tanaka, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Carlos Alza, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Rosa Alayza, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Mariana Alvarado, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Jorge Aragón, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Omar Awapara, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Rodrigo Barrenechea, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Fabiola Bazo
Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University
Maxwell Cameron, University of British Columbia
Julio F. Carrión, University of Delaware
Catherine Conaghan, Queen’s University
John Crabtree, Oxford University
Eduardo Dargent, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Henry Dietz, University of Texas at Austin
Joanna Drzewieniecki,
Graciela Ducantenzeiler, Université de Montréal
Romeo Grompone, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Carlos Indacochea, The George Washington University
Farid Kahatt, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Charles Kenney, University of Oklahoma
Denise Ledgard, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Steven Levitsky, Harvard University
Cynthia McClintock, The George Washington University
Andrés Mejía Acosta, University of Sussex
Carlos Meléndez, University of Notre Dame
Cynthia Milton, Université de Montréal
Paula Muñoz, University of Texas at Austin
Philip Oxhorn, Mc Gill University
Simón Pachano, FLACSO (Quito)
Luis Pásara, Universidad de Salamanca
Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University
María Ana Rodríguez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Eduardo Romero, Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington
Mariela Szwarcberg, University of Chicago
Carlos Torres Vitolas, London School of Economics
Jorge Valladares, University of Essex
Sofia Vera, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Alberto Vergara, Université de Montréal

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