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Study: Majority of censorship at colleges directed at the left

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  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    How stupid do you think your audience is here?
  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,379

    How stupid do you think your audience is here?

    This is HH. Walked right into that one, didn’t you
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    Baseman said:

    How stupid do you think your audience is here?

    This is HH. Walked right into that one, didn’t you
    Yeah, holy cow


  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    edited August 2018
    BearsWiin said:

    Baseman said:

    How stupid do you think your audience is here?

    This is HH. Walked right into that one, didn’t you
    Yeah, holy cow


    That cat is painting the corners though. If you try to pull it, you’re hitting it foul. You take his outside pitch the other way and chances are ya hit a gap.
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771

    How stupid do you think your audience is here?

    Which facts in the study do you disagree with?
  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    edited August 2018

    How stupid do you think your audience is here?

    Which facts in the study do you disagree with?
    This is all invalid imo. It's an investigation where the investigators are investigating themselves. No conflict of interest there...

    If the article is taken seriously,

    How many incidents go unreported out of fear of retribution? How many students don't speak up and air their views on campuses out of fear of social castigation in a climate where only one point of view is tolerated? They see people every day losing their careers, getting silenced on social media platforms, etc. for having the 'wrong point of view,' the wrong point of view being anything that isn't accepted leftist dogma & thought.

    It's questionable whether the study was conducted by impartial interests. It was conducted by a group at Georgetown University, a university that's so far left that students are demanding the university change its hiring practices

    The lack of conservative professors at Georgetown is leaving students unprepared for the genuine diversity – that is, the diversity of thought – that is part of the real world. Georgetown’s homogeneity, they argue, is leading to an atrophying of their skills for debate and reasoned argument. In other words, without conservatives, they have no one to test their ideas against.

    “One of the hallmarks of higher education is the opportunity to understand and grapple with a wide range of ideas,” the editorial notes. It goes on:

    Yet, Georgetown falls short on its commitment to this ideological diversity in the makeup of its instructional corps. The university must work to remedy its lack of politically conservative professors by considering a diversity of viewpoints when hiring instructors, from assistant professors to those with tenure, and by ensuring that no bias exists against conservative educators in the hiring process.


    https://nationalreview.com/2017/10/georgetown-conservative-professors-students-intellectual-diversity</
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    So, none of the facts.
  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288

    So, none of the facts.

    Umm, the facts are being called into question because of the source: a left wing biased university. Need an independent study by an investigative unit not affiliated with any university, or even better, not from the educational sector at all, composed of people from diverse backgrounds across the political spectrum.
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    It’s amazing how much scrutiny you’re willing to apply to things when they don’t agree with your preconceived notions.
  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    edited August 2018

    It’s amazing how much scrutiny you’re willing to apply to things when they don’t agree with your preconceived notions.

    I don't doubt there are instances of leftist speech being infringed on at universities, but most universities being left leaning to far left wing, the bulk of the infringements are directed at people who have viewpoints that fall outside the accepted dogma of the left. To claim that it's mostly left wing viewpoints that are being silenced is beyond the pale. It's a narrative that just doesn't fit the evidence. You don't see leftist speakers being shouted down, banned from speaking or facing blackshirt anti fascist rioters trying to shut them down. That's all left wing shit. Seems to me it's exactly the kind of shit they claim to be against.