University Echo Chambers
Universities have become a liberal monoculture as conservative professors have been pushed to the brink of extinction. Many conservative ideas must be presented as outside the sphere of politically acceptable thought. An article posted back in November 2016 in the National Review, titled "Hotbeds of Groupthink: The Shrinking Viewpoint Diversity on Our Campuses", highlights this well:
"Universities such as Stanford pride themselves on taking racial and gender diversity seriously...[they] would benefit from giving viewpoint diversity similar attention and care.
A lack of ideological diversity allows entrenched orthodoxies, one-sided teaching, intolerance of alternative views, and unreliable research.
“One-sided ideological orientation leads to one-sided teaching, which leads to intolerance of alternative views,” write Langbert and Klein... “The ability to disagree requires practice, but neither students nor their professors practice balanced disagreement in universities, because faculty meetings are increasingly held in halls of mirrors.”
Critical thought requires a multitude of tongues to provide open discourse, plurality, and the exposure to conflicting and often uncomfortable perspectives. This allows for a free exchange and marketplace of ideas, rational discourse, and creative problem solving.
We have now created an environment where freedom of inquiry and expression must be served with so-called “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces”, where young people can retreat from view-points that may conflict with their own. Ideological homogeneity and emotional coddling does not prepare students for life after graduation; the real world is not full safe spaces. Tolerance for intellectual pain is necessary to developing a fuller understanding of how the world works.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441711/leftist-academia-democrats-rule-trend-increasing
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