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Originally posted by bryanthompson
You would agree that on a fundamental level, learning institutions should be completely fair, and allow all opinions and questions, right?
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Everyone agrees on that. And academics do too, until some renegade professor at the institution starts raising issues that don't jibe with the academic mainstream (liberal) thought. Students? They can be batted aside like flies, dismissed outright. Their education is not complete.
My wife is a college professor. Economics PhD with highest honors from a top-5 school. I have seen first hand how this works. She is moderate/right leaning, and automatically classified as a "stupid redneck, beer-can thrower, yadda yadda yadda" until it's learned that she's an academic. Then it's a blank stare and "how could you possibly think
that? Aren't you...you know,
educated?
On the campus, this elitism is so entrenched that the desire to air all views is deemed achieved when the views and opinions of 95% of the faculty have been communicated.
And naturally, to us moderate/right-leaners, that view of fairness is just wrong. Note that I didn't say that view is stupid, unlike...well, you know.