Democrats and Colleges Fight Diversity

Measure promoting intellectual diversity approved by House

Democrats and college boards are incensed that there should be diversity on campus if that diversity means that they should have to compete on the field of ideas.

A bill pending in South Dakota would require colleges in that state to report on what they are doing to ensure that ideas from across the political spectrum are encouraged on campus - to which colleges respond that the government should keep its nose out of their institutionalized discrimination against conservatives.

Liberals have worked for many years to create an insular environment on college campuses in which to brainwash the youth by systematically excluding, demeaning or dismissing opposing points of view. Across the country, professors are using their positions to intimidate conservative students into liberal conformity by giving low grades to any work that expresses a conservative bias, embarrassing students who deviate from standard liberal dogma in class, and denying teaching assistant positions to those who hold differing political views. The boards use the same ideological discrimination to deny conservative professors the tenure, department chairs, and grants they would have otherwise earned if they held the "correct views."

Now the professors' little kingdoms are being threatened. They're scared to death that they can't compete on the field of ideas: that students free to disagree without fear of reprisal will actually do so. How will liberalism survive?

Here, here, South Dakota. It's high time colleges that are the recipients of so many millions of tax dollars are forced to play fair and actually broaden their students' minds instead of narrowing them....I only hope that the national Republicans are paying attention and enact something similar at the national level for all colleges receiving federal tax benefits or federal grants. It's time to level the playing field...