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Posted on 02/27/2026 6:56:34 AM PST by Twotone
Advocating for diverse viewpoints on campuses is now apparently akin to saying “All Lives Matter,” or pushing a supposedly sinister Make America Great Again plot.
That’s according to two recent op-eds, penned by professors at Stanford and Johns Hopkins, opposing efforts to get professors and students with different opinions onto campus.
Academia has lost public trust precisely because anyone not of the far-left is admonished on campuses. Accusing proponents of viewpoint diversity of being Trumpy conspiracists certainly doesn’t help.
Any professor who truly cares about academia should want more views on campus, regardless of their own politics.
“It’s profoundly anti-intellectual, and profoundly anti-scientific to politicize the question of viewpoint diversity,” John Tomasi, president of Heterodox Academy, told The Post.
“Without a diverse range of opinions, we will not be searching for knowledge. We will be leaning more towards something like indoctrination.” Stanford professor article
The former Brown political science professor warns that, when certain viewpoints take over campus, minority views can become verboten.
“If you get to the point of imbalance where you can’t even ask a question without being attacked personally, then [something is] really going wrong,” he said. “That’s profoundly unhealthy for a university system.”
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Its a cult of the damned.
College profs have to pretend the same.
Universities are nothing but commie indoctrination camps.
True.
Colleges are blatantly liberal. They even closed after each time Trump was elected and then the day of inauguration too.
According to AI...
Marxist influence in academia grew significantly during the cultural shifts of the late 1960s–1970s, but it has never dominated most university disciplines and today survives mainly in modified forms within certain humanities and social sciences, focusing on culture, race, and gender.
They have trauma days apparently.
From that point on, my grades suffered in his class. The A quickly became a C.
Trigglypuff gets triggered easily.
It's not just University of Massachusetts either.
AI is lying or at a minimum seriously underplaying the truth.
I quit teaching college because of it.
My previous professor during my bachelors was a weird guy called Clifton Snider. He was gay and Prop 22 (banning gay marriage in Cali) had just come out and I wrote an op-ed under a penname in the student paper supporting it. He spent a whole class berating the “homophobic author of this horrendous article,” not knowing I was sitting there. The girl I was interested in was in the class with me and was smirking at me the whole time. She knew it was me without me telling her.
This would not be such a problem If they would go back to the classic undergraduate core liberal arts curriculum. The present undergraduate curriculum is too diverse and fragmented. I once did a research paper on the development of the curriculum at a small college. Prior to around 1965, in four years, there were only three electives: one in junior year and two in the senior year. The goal was a truly liberal arts education, not a specialized trade school.
Too true, in my case. I was 18 and ignorant. College professors in 1979 were, I’d always thought, more intelligent and knowledgable than just about anyone. I accepted their politics, and soon adopted them as my own, believing them to be ‘correct’. In the process, I became a lefty and an insufferable jackass. (It’s been decades since my eyes were opened, but I still suffer from occasional jackassery....) Looking back, had I joined the military or enrolled in a conservative school, my life would have been very, very different.
My husband’s sister in law had to do the same at Eastern Michigan university in 1982. It has been that way a long time. Now that type of professor is the majority, not a one-off.
Yet these same people do “studies” on themselves, coming to the conclusion that they must be the smartest people because they dominate the jobs they have.
Yes, genius.
I was university faculty. You miss the obvious fun of how quickly the narratives change. One minute, you can be on the cutting edge of Woke and the next, you are practically MAGA because the narrative shifted. Feminism and misogyny disappeared with the trans movement. Women couldn’t define themselves. Men now had a voice on abortion because men could have babies.
Colleges are AWFUL farms.
This isn’t new. I had to do this in the 80s in college.
It was going on in the 80s, so this indoctrination is not new information, but still nobody seems to have a good answer as to why republicans keep sending their children off to universities.
Democrats abort their own babies.
So when you see these BLM riots? Republican children. When you see these ICE riots? Republican children.
The phrase “starve the beast” usually refers to defunding some entity of money and it will die.
But universities could have starving put upon them another way. If republicans stopped willingly sending their children in to become communists, the universities would (the same) be starved. Starve the beast.
It is truly confounding. We hold all the power. We refuse to use the power. Why leave power un-exercised?
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