Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators
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#2Seems that the problem is the existence of departments like the "Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement".
It's a school. Why are these needed? To pad tuition?
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#3 It’s funny that the pundit writing this says the example liberation event is lopsided, when it seems perfectly mainstream to me.
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#4Tell me again. What is his issue?
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#5Tell me again. What is his issue?
I think it’s the old canard where conservatives don’t realize that the reason their viewpoints are not represented on campus is because they don’t hold up to intellectual scrutiny.
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#6Oh man, so true. Where I am it's like a permanent Pride parade.
That said, is this really a big issue? Employees, often public employees, at traditionally liberal institutions, many of whom are humanities PhDs themselves are liberal... Popes are often Catholic and wear funny hats... I'm not clear this is a huge threat to Western civilization.
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#7Seems that the problem is the existence of departments like the "Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement". It's a school. Why are these needed? To pad tuition?
Aren't the sports teams and the residences and the fraternities more of a problem?
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#8I have a few questions:
1. Why aren't there very many conservative administrators? Are they not interested in these sorts of jobs, or is there discrimination/bias in the hiring process?
2. Why does having such events threaten the free and open exchange of ideas? Shouldn't it be quite the opposite? Incoming conservative students are being exposed to viewpoints they haven't heard before; isn't that a good thing?
3. Why aren't conservatives organizing similar events? The only group I can think of is Turning Point USA, which is hardly acting as a serious ideological advocate for conservative viewpoints.
4. The author calls "justice for women" a progressive cause. Does he believe conservatives are not interested in justice for women? Should conservatives run events about injustice for women to provide ideological balance, and if they do, is that good for society?
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#9It's unfortunate that HN only shows the domain name of a source. Sources like NYT and other newspapers have News and Opinion directories, which quote different reputations.
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#10The topics discussed are about as political as “slavery is wrong.”
Edit-Just to add a quote, the author describes the following as being liberally “lopsided.”
“The conference would touch on such progressive topics as liberation spaces on campus, Black Lives Matter and justice for women as well as for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and allied people.”
This has no place on HN, as it’s clearly political and not what this sites about.