Religious Tolerance at Cornell

Myarmin
Mon, 12 May 2008 20:02:26 +0000

You’re always going to meet closed-minded people, both liberal and conservative, and they’ll say a lot of stupid things.

I can’t say that I’m that politically informed, but I can say that I’ve met quite a few conservatives here who know what they’re talking about and have strong reasons for believing what they believe. But at the same time they can totally see other sides of the issue as well. They choose their positions after considering as many aspects of the issue as they can. A lot of them are also very open and fairly non-judgmental, and having come from my high school (which, I think, has a fair number of blindly conservative and liberal people), this was very eye-opening.

So, in my experience, Cornellians are fairly accepting. Just saying, it really depends on who you discuss politics with.