<p>For one thing, many liberals would find working alongside a conservative Christian “bothersome.” Don’t deny I’m wrong on this. It’s wrong to say “group A is more tolerant than group B,” it makes more sense to say “group A is tolerant of things group B doesn’t like, and group B is tolerant of things group A doesn’t like.”</p>
<p>Examples of things that liberals may be uncomfortable studying:</p>
<p>1) any aspect of history that doesn’t fit the left-wing narrative, such as the more thorough history of slavery (and who really stopped it), or the real history of the people who populated North America before Europeans came, the rampant and deliberate racism of labor unions and the involvement of unions, socialists, and communists in getting Apartheid started. It wasn’t until after the fall of the Soviet Union and revealed archives made it impossible to deny communist atrocities that many leftist academicians were willing to concede they were wrong about the USSR.
2) studies that reveal politically incorrect truths are often attacked and buried <em>by academics</em>, such as the Duke study on graduation rates and choice of major by race.</p>
<p>Read Higher Superstitions (written by two leftist professors) about their problems with leftist humanities professors attacks on science.</p>
<p>Another important note: what we’re talking about are the trends of today, not how things have always been. As recently as the 80s, there was FAR more political diversity in universities than there is now. Go look at the statistics, they are pretty interesting. Also, until about the 80s or 70s or so, it was “conservatives” who had the highest opinion of science versus “liberals.” The modern notion that conservatives are anti-science and liberals are pro-science is a pretty new one. There is some pretty interesting history here.</p>