[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"A number of conservative students told me they felt Republican ideas were frequently caricatured and rarely presented fairly. Did the dearth of conservative professors on campus and apparent marginalization of ideas on the right belie the university's commitment to providing a marketplace of ideas?"

Very common. They might not know what conservative ideas are at all. I was the only Catholic and conservative guy in a department at a supposedly Catholic university. Go figure. Liberals have weird ideas about conservatives. Some really don't have a clue. When they talk about "diversity" they don't mean ANY conservatives or Christians being included.

[Mr. Blonde]

To them diversity only means skin color. Diversity of thought is dangerous don’t you know?

[wbill]

Liberals have weird ideas about conservatives

I can't count the number of liberals that have expressed surprise that I'm a conservative "Because I'm not a Bigot".

Not kidding.

[Billthedrill]

Liberals have weird ideas about conservatives. Some really don't have a clue.

Bears repeating. This is especially poignant in the arena of "hyprocrisy," wherein it is insisted that the conservative be consistent not with his or her own actual ideas, but with the stereotypes the liberal has in his or her head, and those can be pretty wild.

That works both ways. I do know a handful of pro-life liberals who are routinely annoyed at the assumption that they support abortion clinics. The real difficulty - and on this I have to fault liberals more than conservatives - is that when you're screaming you can't do a very good job of listening.

The U of O is well-known as a liberal faculty, and it doesn't really surprise me a lot that 2 of 111 members are registered Republicans. This isn't at all accidental, it's a case of self-selection through hiring and tenure committees, and every honest observer on both sides of the political spectrum knows it. The question is, as it is with a similar political distribution in news rooms and editorial boards, does it affect the product? If the 111 say it doesn't and the 2 say that it does, that doesn't constitute a consensus against, and the pretense that it is because the minority side has nothing of value to say ought to give the majority pause if they really are as intelligent as they appear to think that they are.

One cannot really legislate a remedy if one does not want to risk the cure being worse than the disease. One can merely publish the figures and let them speak for themselves. It is ironic that this technique, elsewhere so fondly regarded by liberal social engineers, is dismissed so cavalierly in such a blatant case. And worse, that those who ask the questions, such as the author, are punished for doing so in an institution that piously invokes the principle of free inquiry and academic freedom.

[a fool in paradise]

“Diversity” is a lie. It’s about swalling the bitter pill of Political Correctness (the Liberal positions on every subject, including history, no debate or dissent tolerated).

Political Correctness has NOTHING to do with which political party is in the White House (the Left tried to make that argument in the 1980s). The term goes back decades before Reagan’s presidency.

Their intolerance for “dead white males” shows that the agenda is subvert Western Civilization.

Throw out “the bad” and usher in “the new”.

Our Constitutional form of government has been resented by the baby boomer Leftist activists who protested on campuses in the 1960s (but didn’t actually ATTEND those schools). They now own the White House and the Media.