Conservative Student Describes Her Experiences at a Small Liberal Arts College
“I’ve spent the last four years defending myself against personal and political attacks from professors and peers alike”
This young woman just graduated from St. Olaf College, which was the site of a campus race hoax a few years ago.
She writes at the College Fix:
Conservative grad shares her story: ‘I’ve spent the last four years defending myself’
I just graduated from St. Olaf College after receiving an education I didn’t expect. That’s because as a conservative at my small, Minnesota-based liberal arts institution, I’ve spent the last four years defending myself against personal and political attacks from professors and peers alike.
The most recent example came in late April as the St. Olaf College Republicans hosted scholar Heather Mac Donald for a talk on her new book, “The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.”
As chair of the group, I fielded many angry emails, including this from a theater professor: “This speaker is dangerous. It’s not about a difference in idealogical [sic] perspectives. This rhetoric is dangerous and puts my Black body in danger. This is antithetical to the St. Olaf mission statement. I’m not okay with this… and you all shouldn’t be either.” Several more professors emailed similar sentiments.
This example is no outlier. In early 2018, college administrators shot down an effort to bring Ben Shapiro to campus for a speech. The officials denied the request by saying Shapiro was too divisive to bring to St. Olaf on the date in question. (It was the one-year anniversary of a racial protest on campus). They promised Shapiro could come at some unknown future date, but months of student organizing and planning were essentially wasted. Shapiro never made it to St. Olaf College.
Also last year, our College Republicans’ display called “Why I’m a Conservative” was torn down by students upset by its messaging. They were apparently triggered by expressions such as “All human life has value,” “Facts > feelings,” “I love economic freedom” and “I pay taxes.”
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Maybe it’s time to change the school’s mission statement to allow for diversity of thought?
Freedom is Slavery
Conversation is Violence
The harrassement of conservative professors is just as bad. In fact, most are driven out.
“The officials denied the request by saying Shapiro was too divisive to bring to St. Olaf on the date in question.”
By mere definition … any conservative thought is “too divisive” to a liberal.
It’s come to that …
Division, exclusion and inequality, the fruit of the loon.
A social, political, biological and often time, murderous dead-end.
Always was, always will be.