Yale Student Columnist Argues Campus Keeps Peers in ‘Ideological Bubble’
“arguing that Yale was hindering its own growth”
You could say this about students at almost every college across the country.
Campus Reform reports:
Yale student argues campus keeps peers in ‘ideological bubble’
Yale students have begun reporting concerns about a lack of political and intellectual diversity on campus.
In an article published in the Yale Daily News titled ”Yale Needs More Conservatives” sophomore Hannah Owens Pierre expressed disappointment in what she described as a narrow spectrum of opinion at the university and called for reforms in faculty hiring and admissions practices.
Pierre argued that Yale is strongly biased toward progressive political thought, citing examples from the course catalog as evidence of imbalance.
Pierre pointed to course titles such as “No Time for Tears: Friendships between Black Women and White Women” as examples of progressive-leaning offerings with no conservative counterparts.
According to a report by the Buckley Institute, only 2.3 percent of Yale’s 1,666 faculty members identified as Republican or supported Republican candidates. Of the university’s 43 academic departments, 27 reportedly did not include a single Republican faculty member.
Pierre contended that this lack of intellectual diversity amounted to “exclusion against conservatism,” arguing that Yale was hindering its own growth by “keeping students in an ideological bubble” and “robbing them” of exposure to alternative viewpoints and the opportunity to disagree about and discover what is true.
A Buckley Institute study found that a majority of Yale students “often felt intimidated” to share their opinions in class due to perceived disagreement from professors or peers. Yet, the same study reported that 89 percent of students believed hearing and discussing dissenting views provided a stronger education and better leadership training.
Not all students agreed with Pierre’s perspective. In a response published by the Yale Daily News, senior Milan Singh called Pierre’s piece “an unfortunate article,” suggesting that the lack of conservative presence at Yale reflected broader intellectual trends.
“To put it bluntly,” Singh wrote, “conservatives—particularly social conservatives—are, on average, less intelligent than liberals.” He argued that Pierre’s call for “intellectual diversity” was simply a concealed demand for “lowering standards.”
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“To put it bluntly,” Singh wrote, “conservatives—particularly social conservatives—are, on average, less intelligent than liberals.”
Pol Pot knew the right thing to do about that.
“To put it bluntly,” Singh wrote, “conservatives—particularly social conservatives—are, on average, less intelligent than liberals.”
Talk about gaslighting.
If liberals are so “intellectual,” why do they recite daily handed-down talking points like robots in lockstep? Why do they only promote unworkable policies that inevitably harm people? Why do they promote ideologies that led to starvation and death for 110 million people in the 20th Century? Why do they coddle murderers and terrorists? Why are they incapable of original thought?
Another case of idiots flattering themselves, the very height of intellectualism.
Dumbing-Kreuger.
No graduation without indoctrination?
DEI must be uprooted.
Many schools require faculty applicants to write a “Diversity Statement,” which allows them to separate out and avoid hiring anyone but the most enthusiastic left-wingers.
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