If the social sciences departments were comprised of a truly diverse group of people with a wide spectrum of perspectives, then, yes, that would be the case. That's not what the Social Sciences in our universities is about today; it's about people with various leftist perspectives performing research to justify their own viewpoints with data, while demonizing opposing conclusions.
If the biology departments were comprised of a truly diverse group of people with a wide spectrum of perspectives, then there would be more doctors out there who believe in healing crystals and essential oils.
Now imagine a Social Sciences professor doing longitudinal research and finding out the results of the outcomes of children growing up in not just single parent households, but in gay/lesbian households, trans households, etc. Just what would be the response to data which showed the outcomes of children raised in such homes to be less optimal than children raised in two-parent biological families. Would this research be received well, or would the research be suppressed, the researcher systematically discredited? Which would happen in today's environment?
Thanks, it's a lot easier when you guys just straight-up admit the truth like this: you're using your imagined oppression as an excuse to actually oppress people.
Now I don't know what honest longitudinal research into a topic like this would show. What I do know is that much of academia is not prepared to be open-minded into all sorts of assertions as to what social norms should be. Let's not pretend that Social Science departments of universities are stocked with open-minded objective researchers.
Social sciences are, by definition, open-minded. Conservatism is, by definition, close-minded. So it's no wonder that those two things don't mesh well together. Same reason there aren't a lot of liberals at business school.
What does it say to the state of colleges and universities when conservative lecturers are shouted down routinely to the point where their even being given a platform on campus is cause for discord and disturbance? Certainly, it says something for the college administrators and faculty that are OK with this.
It says that these college administrators and faculty value free speech, which protects the students' rights to shout down speakers. Freedom of speech is important to me. Is it important to you?
Students not only have to conform to the Leftist leaning of professors for grades,
No they don't.
They have to conform to the leftist leanings of their fellow students to not be ostracized.
So now your definition of "colleges have gone mad" is that nobody wants to be friends with conservatives?
