I find some of the comments about wanting to “take a shower” after reading the article or some of the comments pretty illustrative of the extreme liberalism that has overtaken college campuses. Most of the universities mentioned in the article do not have a conservative faculty at all; rather they are listed because they have at least one conservative faculty member in most departments. And yet some of you find even the slightest exposure to conservative thought objectionable.
Diversity czars have taken over many campuses, and if that’s what these people want, fine. But I want my children to attend a college where everyone uses proper English pronouns, where Santa is allowed to come to the Christmas party, where the food service workers wear sombreros or lederhosen on Mexican or German night in the cafeteria, and so forth. I’d like for them to be exposed to a variety of viewpoints, both liberal and conservative. I think the “safe space” movement is beyond silly, but I do want my children to be safe from the type of violent physical and verbal racial attacks of the type that Dartmouth students suffered recently while trying to study in the library.
I have two children; my son is a high school junior and a socialist. My daughter is a very conservative sophomore who absolutely loathes extremist liberals. In helping my children find the right college, I am certainly going to take their personalities and political leanings into consideration. For my son this might well be a place where there are lots of protests that he can join in with. For my daughter it means finding a place where I expect there never to be any type of lefty protest, ever.
As the article suggests, we do need true diversity within and between universities. There is a place for very liberal colleges, but we also need colleges that are equally conservative. And I would hope most schools would have a faculty mix that reflects society at large, with about a third liberal, a third conservative, and a third moderate or apolitical. There’s simply nothing radical about this notion.