Study: Majority of censorship at colleges directed at the left

oregonblitzkrieg said:

How stupid do you think your audience is here?

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

BearsWiin said:

Baseman said:

oregonblitzkrieg 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 said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

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 said:

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 said:

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.