Agreed: what happened to them was awful and should not be defended. But we shouldn't mistake what happened to them for a trend or representative pattern.
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Interesting data, all peripheral to the point at hand: whether or not there is a 'liberal orthodoxy' that professors or students are 'punished' for deviating from. Does the academy lean left? Sure. Does that mean conservatives aren't free to speak their minds on campus? No.
What conservative views do you hold that are outside the Overton window? If none, how would you know whether you feel free to speak your mind?
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Again, anecdotes aren't data. What *I* feel (at my 1 university) tells us nothing about what's going on systematically. What does? The data that's been collected on this topic. (Again, see my first post linking to
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2. Interestingly, prior to 2012 it looks like more right wing groups were responsible for the disinviting. Since then, it has been almost exclusively left wing groups.https://www.thefire.org/resources/disinvitation-database/#home/ …
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