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I'm on the side of free speech on this one. We can't have "perfect" security, and policing what people say will be as effective towards ending extremism as the war on drugs has been towards ending drug use.

The solution to the misinformation is education, critical thinking, and depolarization; not criminalization. It's a slower process but it's the right one. The more a government gives up on educating and trusting the people it represents, and tends towards instead treating them like little children who can't possibly make decisions on their own, the more that population will be become just that— incapable of making decisions on their own. We don't want that to be the case; that's dangerous.




Republicans don't want schools to teach beyond the core subjects and are attacking higher education with unproven allegations of liberal indoctrination. In my opinion the right is attacking schools because misinformation benefits them more since they constantly tell people not to trust the government and elect them to drain the swamp.

1.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a law punishing student 'indoctrination' at public universities and threatens budget cuts

https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-signs-law-to-punish...

2. CRT taught in just one university course is a major talking point. Another attack on schools

Etc


Unproven allegations?

1% of Harvard faculty identifies as conservative: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/13/faculty-survey-...

77% of students say professors espouse liberal ideas: https://freebeacon.com/campus/campus-conformity-college-stud...

Other miscellaneous statistics: https://www.aei.org/articles/are-colleges-and-universities-t...

My own anecdote from my time as an undergrad at UConn: my ethics professor once said, verbatim, that anyone who supported a pro-life stance was, flat out, wrong. I watched conservative speakers come to campus and the associate vice president said that “even the thought of an individual coming to campus with [conservative views] can be concerning and even hurtful” [1]. This was after an “event review process” was stood up, ostensibly with the intent to moderate content that could be discussed at the university, following a right-wing speaker’s talk breaking out into violence after being called a Nazi and having his property stolen [2].

My own experience has been that “liberal indoctrination” correctly captures the magnitude of this effect.

1: https://www.dailywire.com/news/uconn-acts-uc-berkeley-offers...

2: https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/us/lucian-wintrich-uconn-spee...


Conservatism, by definition, opposes change. It disapproves of new ideas and philosophical innovation in favour of tradition.

Universities have always been hotbeds for change, research, vanguard and protest against the standard. I'm not surprised there's so little conservatism there; it's an environment that attracts open-mindedness, not people who shy away from deep analytical reconsideration. For the latter, there's churches.


1.Prove that it's mass indoctrination, prove students take the political view of a professor.

Alternate explaination: being educated increases the probability you'll become liberal

2.Anecdotes have no meaningful value and even if it did prove it.


> Alternate explanation: being educated increases the probability you'll become liberal

This is essentially conceding the point the above commenter is making: American universities influences graduates to become more liberal.




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