Oh, fer crying out loud! When I was in college (1983-87), anybody to the right of the Sandinistas was stifled, sneered at, shouted down, etc.
When I wrote a few conservative things for the school paper, I had humorless feminutty types literally getting up in my face and screeching about me being "a murderer of women and children" because I wrote in support of our bombing of Libya -- but I also had a few people quietly seek me out to thank me for saying out loud what they were afraid to say.
It's about time that these hardcore leftist professors learn the reality that leftism does NOT equal "intellectual openness." They need to understand that it's an ideology, not The Truth.
Oh, fer crying out loud! When I was in college (1983-87), anybody to the right of the Sandinistas was stifled, sneered at, shouted down, etc
It in fact the left who enforces leftist orthodoxy on college campuses. I was once purged out of a class for writing a paper on Margaret Thatcher (EARLY 90'S). Deviate a little from the liberal sermons and fail to parrot leftist ideology and you will find it affecting your grade. The left is literally behind every attempt to stifle free speech, from "speech codes" to "political correctness".