What are the students like at Emory?

el_duque
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:19:37 +0000

Neither would I. My point was that conservatives get stereotyped as such, but that’s an ignorant conclusion. Conservative thought is not “closed-minded”. Likewise liberal thought is not “open-minded”. People who equate liberal with open-minded are just taking a subtle shot at conservatives by implying that their way of thinking is ignorant. Conservatives could just as easily call conservative thought “thinking for yourself”, because, as college students, we’re constantly exposed to liberal media, liberal educators, and liberal peers. And what does that imply about liberals? But that’s not really true either. Both sides have good and evil people, smart and dumb, open and closed-minded.

So it’s one question to ask how open-minded Emory is, and a completely different one to ask how liberal the campus is. But if YOU are open-minded then that shouldn’t really matter, should it? You could either surround youself with a bunch of people that agree with you, or you could open your mind a little.