Posted on 04/06/2017 7:14:42 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Even lifelong men and women on the Left are becoming concerned about the oppressive political climate on American college campuses. Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist and professor of ethical leadership at the New York University's Stern School of Business, spoke about the roots of campus rage in light of the mob and "heckler’s veto" at Middlebury College and the University California-Berkeley. The Wall Street Journal published the interview, conducted by Bari Weiss, entitled, “The Cultural Roots of Campus Rage.”
Haidt warned about this "new religion" of "true believers" in ideology. These believers "have reoriented their lives around the fight against evil," Haidt said, and these believers are "very intimidating." So much so, "they’ve been given the heckler's veto, and are often granted it by an administration who won’t stand up to them either."
Haidt is a "longtime liberal," noted Weiss, and admitted that he "had never encountered conservative ideas" until a decade ago. He now calls himself a centrist. He founded the Heterodox Academy in 2015, which is composed of "a politically diverse group of social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and other scholars" about "viewpoint diversity" and the lack of it at colleges. Haidt pointed out, "When a system loses all of its diversity, weird things begin to happen."
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It’s not up to me, and that’s probably a good thing.
But
If it were then...
Too eff’d bad boyo. You and your destructionist ilk made this mess. Choke on it.
And no. I don’t believe the come to Jesus from these types anymore. Now they’re just afraid of the repercussions. Once the pressure’s off, they’ll revert to form and it all starts over again.
My buddy teaching at a Big 10 school is installing on his own dime a surveillance system in his office. He’s a rarity - a socially conservative, Christian, libertarian academic in a field that is 95% hard left, and he sees the writing on the wall. It’s so easy for the snowflakes to fake something up on people who make them uncomfortable. They see it as virtuous to destroy careers in order to “purify” the academy.
After all, it is all for the better good and the end justifies the means.
Then they’ll charge him for recording without the snowflakes’ permission.
Probably. Being recorded will make them feel not safe somehow.
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