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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html?_r=0
WE progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren't conservatives. Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of diversity that universities disregard is ideological and religious. We're fine with people who don't look like us, as long as they think like us.
O.K., that's a little harsh. But consider George Yancey, a sociologist who is black and evangelical. "Outside of academia I faced more problems as a black," he told me. "But inside academia I face more problems as a Christian, and it is not even close."
I've been thinking about this because on Facebook recently I wondered aloud whether universities stigmatize conservatives and undermine intellectual diversity. The scornful reaction from my fellow liberals proved the point.
"Much of the 'conservative' worldview consists of ideas that are known empirically to be false," said Carmi. "The truth has a liberal slant," wrote Michelle. "Why stop there?" asked Steven. "How about we make faculties more diverse by hiring idiots?"
To me, the conversation illuminated primarily liberal arrogance — the implication that conservatives don't have anything significant to add to the discussion. My Facebook followers have incredible compassion for war victims in South Sudan, for kids who have been trafficked, even for abused chickens, but no obvious empathy for conservative scholars facing discrimination.
The stakes involve not just fairness to conservatives or evangelical Christians, not just whether progressives will be true to their own values, not just the benefits that come from diversity (and diversity of thought is arguably among the most important kinds), but also the quality of education itself. When perspectives are unrepresented in discussions, when some kinds of thinkers aren't at the table, classrooms become echo chambers rather than sounding boards — and we all lose.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday August 29 2016, @02:13AM
This is deliberate. It is an indirect method of curtailing first-amendment rights by punishing, and often depriving the livelihood of, individuals exercising their first-amendment rights much in the same way that there is a deliberate effort to indirectly deprive individuals of their second-amendment rights -- banning lead bullets, banning ever-increasing classes of firearms, more stringent background checks, frog in the pot turn up the heat etc. etc.
The mistake that the people who are pushing this all are making is that they believe that the common man will believe anything that they say -- and the resurgence of right-leaning parties in Europe, as one example, proves them wrong.
The crux of the issue is control. When you deprive people of their livelihoods and prosperity, they are easier to control. When you direct the public perception such that more and more subjects are taboo, then your subjects are easier to control. When you induce learned helplessness into your subjects, they are easier to control. When you keep the people squabbling and divided, they are not banding together to address the real problem. All this divisive PC bullshit, Black Lives Matter, etc are very deliberate efforts to keep the people divided and those who subscribe to divisive ideologies are useful idiots for those who wish to control the people. Megaliberal morons and college students are especially vulnerable because they're like, so righteous, man.
Unfortunately for them, control is controlled by the need to control and the people are becoming increasingly pissed. One would surmise, based on the China-levels of mass-media disinformation in the United States, that they are in control, but nothing could be further from the truth -- they are in fact desperate and shitting their pants.
And Americans won't simply eat that shit-sandwich and roll over as the Europeans have.
(Score: 4, Informative) by ilPapa on Monday August 29 2016, @02:51AM
The guy running the campaign of Donald Trump said he doesn't want his kids to go to school with Jews, but it's "PC bullshit" that's keeping people divided.
You're a silly SOB.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday August 29 2016, @03:01AM
As a kid I went to school with Jews, and I strongly encourage all gentiles to let their kids go to school with Jews, just so they can see how annoying Jewish kids are.
It's a good life-lesson because Jews don't stop being annoying when they grow up. In fact, they get much worse.
Possibly. But that's because in my 3+ decades of life I've never encountered a Jew who wasn't also an asshole. Muslims too. I can't say the same for every other category of individual. You can hate me for being divisive against 2 classes of people, while Facebook (run by a Jew) is classifying people into over thirty genders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @03:29AM
Yeah, they know what they're doing, and we're letting them do it.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ramze on Monday August 29 2016, @05:32AM
Ever thought the common denominator was yourself? Perhaps you're an asshole, and that's why people who you act like an asshole towards are reacting badly towards you? Seems like the most likely possibility rather than "everyone that believes in these two religions and/or is descended from people indigenous to a certain region of the planet are assholes." We're talking about billions of people here. Only 16 Million Jews worldwide, but about 1.6 Billion Muslims on the earth. I gotta say, just the odds alone that ALL 1.6 Billion or so are assholes is infinitesimal compared to the odds that perhaps it's just you that's the asshole.
My own anecdotal evidence is quite the opposite of your experience. Granted, I've only known a handful of Muslims (that I know of -- many are Black Muslims who choose to hide their religion for fear of being ostracized,) but all the Jews I've met have been among the kindest, most thoughtful, and well-rounded individuals I've ever known. In fact, I'm travelling with one of my favorite friends (who happens to be Jewish) to a huge convention this coming weekend (along with several other friends), and we're going to have a hell of a lot of fun. He's even covering for another friend who can't afford to pay his share of the expenses up-front and will let the guy pay him back over time b/c he's good for it... and no, he's not charging interest. lol.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @05:33AM
> You can hate me for being divisive against 2 classes of people, while Facebook (run by a Jew) is classifying people into over thirty genders.
Yeah, you are actually being inclusive.
You combine over thirty different kinds of asshole into one person.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @07:18AM
Liberals thought they could replace Christianity with a kind of ersatz charity without God. The bit they forgot about is real Christian society doesn't put up with bullshit like rapist muslim men or usurers/banksters etc. But Liberals roll over for everything because they are ideologically loose like a two bit whore. So now the experiment has failed, time for all you liberals to find some real substance or go home.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 29 2016, @05:53PM
Christian society doesn't put up with bullshit like rapist muslim men
Yeah, if the keyword is Muslim. Rapist Christian Men get moved to a different Parish.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @01:38PM
> You combine over thirty different kinds of asshole into one person.
Are we discussing "The Donald" now?
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Monday August 29 2016, @03:01AM
Which is crazy to me. If it's good enough for the Jewish, it's good enough for me. Shit. I wish I could have gone to such a school growing up.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @04:25AM
Everyone knows it's the black schools you didn't want to go to. You know, the middle schools with the resource officers and metal detectors.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @05:31AM
> The crux of the issue is control. When you deprive people of their livelihoods and prosperity, they are easier to control.
Which is why no black people have killed you for being such a racist asshole. Centuries of deprivation have kept them weak. But you can only keep a people down for so long. BLM is going to show you that ethan-lives don't matter. You better start running while you still can. They are coming for you.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 29 2016, @01:26PM
"You better start running while you still can"
That's some silly shit right there. Why die tired? Better to make a stand, and take some of the bastards with you. Molon labe!