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> Seems like right-wing speech will be the most free there. It's insane to me that "we won't mandate ideological orthodoxy" is some how a right-wing idea.
It isn't a right wing idea. Instead, it is plainly obvious what a university that says this actually means.
>“I had one Texas mom email me who said she was crying at the possible opportunity for her children, and a very successful businessman who said, ‘my children may now have a place to go to school.” Not a single university in the world is acceptable for their families? Are they looking for an education or a club to join?
A lot of people have been fooled into believing that traditional universities are places that brainwash their children to become marxists. These people are then unwilling to send their children to these institutions and instead seek out places like Liberty that market themselves as alternatives. Liberty bills itself as explicitly conservative. This one markets itself as focusing on "free speech", but that means somet…
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Do you find the Yale Trap House email [1] "extremely hateful or racist"? What about physicist Dorian Abbot's views on Affirmative action? 1. https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-yale-law-student-sent-a-ligh...
I find their definition of "trap house" to be entertaining. >Once associated with inner city crack dens, "trap house" has also become generic slang for any place where young people can score beer. Seems like they pulled that from urban dictionary [1] and changed a few words to make it more "professional". > Originally used to describe a crack house in a shady neighborhood, the word has since been abused by high schoo…
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A lot of people have been fooled into believing that traditional universities are places that brainwash their children to become marxists. These people are then unwilling to send their children to these institutions and instead seek out places like Liberty that market themselves as alternatives. Liberty bills itself as explicitly conservative. This one markets itself as focusing on "free speech", but that means somet…
Well don't keep it a secret. What does it mean to the target audience?
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It isn't a right wing idea. Instead, it is plainly obvious what a university that says this actually means.
And what might that be? I've seen a lot of comments from you in this thread with similarly vague references, but you seem averse to saying exactly what ideology you expect this university to espouse.
This means conservative belief systems about labor, colonialism, race, gender, and sexuality.
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A lot of people have been fooled into believing that traditional universities are places that brainwash their children to become marxists. These people are then unwilling to send their children to these institutions and instead seek out places like Liberty that market themselves as alternatives. Liberty bills itself as explicitly conservative. This one markets itself as focusing on "free speech", but that means somet…
Well don't keep it a secret. What does it mean to the target audience?
>“I had one Texas mom email me who said she was crying at the possible opportunity for her children, and a very successful businessman who said, ‘my children may now have a place to go to school.” Not a single university in the world is acceptable for their families? Are they looking for an education or a club to join?
I imagine the prospect of not having to author Maoist style diversity statements and other indignities will be quite a draw. Universities have become inhospitable and intolerant places for even politically moderate folks. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/mathematician...
I imagine the prospect of not having to author Maoist style diversity statements and other indignities will be quite a draw. Universities have become inhospitable and intolerant places for even politically moderate folks. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/mathematician...
To keep the parent comment honest, the word "Mao" doesn't appear once in this article; and in fact, near the top they use McCarthyism as an example of the type of "indignity" spoken of. Why a phenomenon identified in western society in the article needs to be made into some jab at maoists is beyond me though.
Thanks for flagging that McCarthy mention though because this type of illiberalism can certainly come from either direction