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Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators

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Seems 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?

One cold, capitalist argument is to attract and retain black students, women students, and LGBTQIA students, have them do their best work, and have them graduate and succeed in life and donate back to the university.

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#13

Tell 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.

Are you using the argument that because current conservative policy is to deny the existence of man made climate change that every other conservative position is unscientific?

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#15

It’s funny that the pundit writing this says the example liberation event is lopsided, when it seems perfectly mainstream to me.

Further, having worked in university systems, diversity offices and administrators are not highly funded. Almost all their activities are student led and organized; they usually just provide administrative guidance for student initiatives.

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#16
post #2

Seems 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?

The bureaucracy always expands to consume all available resources. This is basically a law of nature.

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#17
politically lopsided

When the fuck did equal rights for minorities, women, and GLBTQ become "politically lopsided". We're talking about human rights here. There is no legitimate "other side" to this argument, just hate.

This article is concern trolling 101.

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#18

Tell 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.

Weird, since typically the issue is seen in reverse where leftist views don't hold up to statistics and logic. Check out some of Ben Shapiro's talks, or Crowder's 'Change my mind' series

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#19
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I 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…

1. There may be biological reasons why people with conservative psychology are better suited for other jobs than University administrator.

4. By the literal meanings of the words, justice for women is progressive, not conservative. Giving women civil rights wss please.

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#20

Tell me again. What is his issue?

that the only diversity that administrators care about is diversity of (largely) indelible characteristics (skin color, sexual orientation, etc), instead of diversity of thought.

I'd much rather go to a school where everyone looked the same but thought different, than a school where everyone looked different but thought the same.

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