Current Events > Elite Colleges Are Making It Easy For Conservatives To Dislike Them

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First is the obvious progressive tilt in universities, especially elite universities. At Harvard, for example, undergraduate students overwhelmingly identify as progressive or liberal and the faculty overwhelmingly gives to the Democratic Party. Even Harvard Law School, which has a handful of conservative scholars and a new conservative dean, is on the left end of law school faculties, which are themselves more progressive than the legal profession.

Second, the distinctive progressive ideology of elite universities is relentlessly critical of, to the point of being intolerant of, traditions and moral values widely seen as legitimate in the outside world. As a result, elite universities have narrowed the range of acceptable views within their walls.

Third is the rise of anti-conservative "mobs," "shout-downs" and "illiberal behavior" on campus, as New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt describes it. Conservative speakers of various stripes are being harassed and excluded with increasing frequency. "Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas," noted former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg at a Harvard address a few years ago. Harvard is actually somewhat better on these issues than many universities it hasn't had anti-conservative mobs, and it has been relatively respectful of conservative speakers. But even at Harvard, the pervasive progressive orthodoxy chills conservatives' speech in the classroom and hallways.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Third is the rise of anti-conservative "mobs," "shout-downs" and "illiberal behavior" on campus, as New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt describes it. Conservative speakers of various stripes are being harassed and excluded with increasing frequency. "Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas,"

shocker

does the left not realize that they are being viewed in the same way conservatives of the 80s and 90s were?
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So liberals like their echo chamber and have established their own safe space.
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Note how blogs like this always refuse to elucidate on the behaviors and ideas it describes as traditional or conservative because of how easy it is to write them off at any mention of specifics.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

https://tinyurl.com/yd7mwf95

First is the obvious progressive tilt in universities, especially elite universities. At Harvard, for example, undergraduate students overwhelmingly identify as progressive or liberal and the faculty overwhelmingly gives to the Democratic Party. Even Harvard Law School, which has a handful of conservative scholars and a new conservative dean, is on the left end of law school faculties, which are themselves more progressive than the legal profession.

Second, the distinctive progressive ideology of elite universities is relentlessly critical of, to the point of being intolerant of, traditions and moral values widely seen as legitimate in the outside world. As a result, elite universities have narrowed the range of acceptable views within their walls.

Third is the rise of anti-conservative "mobs," "shout-downs" and "illiberal behavior" on campus, as New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt describes it. Conservative speakers of various stripes are being harassed and excluded with increasing frequency. "Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas," noted former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg at a Harvard address a few years ago. Harvard is actually somewhat better on these issues than many universities it hasn't had anti-conservative mobs, and it has been relatively respectful of conservative speakers. But even at Harvard, the pervasive progressive orthodoxy chills conservatives' speech in the classroom and hallways.

And why should they care? And why do you care?