being insular and not open to having their ideology challenged.
this from the liberals that maintain 90% ideological control of Harvard and absolutely REFUSES to allow THEIR ideology to ever be challenged.
reading the article, this seems more about forcing conservatives on campus to be more open, making them much easier targets for hate, faculty retaliation, and DEI-victim targeting.
The problem is not the existence of conservative thought on our campus, nor the sense of community the spaces offer. There's nothing wrong with tweed jackets, crackling fire, and spirited debates.
Rather, the issue is the insularity. Conservatism, like any ideology, grows dull the less it is challenged. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences should seek to cultivate spaces that instead invite conservative students to engage openly with those who disagree. Likewise, conservative students in these organizations should step out of the shadows and into the broader intellectual life of the university.
Article is: Harvard's Conservatives Have to Stop Hiding
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/11/18/editorial-harvard-conservatives-underground-humanities/
this from the liberals that maintain 90% ideological control of Harvard and absolutely REFUSES to allow THEIR ideology to ever be challenged.
reading the article, this seems more about forcing conservatives on campus to be more open, making them much easier targets for hate, faculty retaliation, and DEI-victim targeting.
OMG, the Harvard Crimson, which likely has exactly zero conservative employees, and whose students are at a school where 90% of the students and over 90% of the faculty are progressives and Democrats, think that their *conservative* classmates are insular. And the example they… pic.twitter.com/vepANvTDoa
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) November 18, 2024
The problem is not the existence of conservative thought on our campus, nor the sense of community the spaces offer. There's nothing wrong with tweed jackets, crackling fire, and spirited debates.
Rather, the issue is the insularity. Conservatism, like any ideology, grows dull the less it is challenged. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences should seek to cultivate spaces that instead invite conservative students to engage openly with those who disagree. Likewise, conservative students in these organizations should step out of the shadows and into the broader intellectual life of the university.
Article is: Harvard's Conservatives Have to Stop Hiding
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/11/18/editorial-harvard-conservatives-underground-humanities/
