[Born Conservative]

I guess you could chalk it up to naivety but after reading the rest of the column ignorance is more like it.

I guess you could chalk it up to lack of life experience.

[sausageseller]

From the article:

In fact, I’m not a conservative, nor a Republican. I simply believe in the concept of diversity – a primarily liberal idea – and think that we suffer when we don’t include ideas we find unappealing.

He blatantly ignores the history of and ideas his professors and even he, believe in.( man that's a disjointed sentence!)