the liberal sided is over represented because conservative viewpoints are systematically discriminated against in most universities.
just bringing them up for discussion is considered sacrilegious. as a grad student I would bring up conservative talking points sometimes in my political philosophy classes and people would socially shun me and call me names for suggesting that conservative viewpoints have any legitimacy whatsoever.
it’s one thing to say you are open to differences… and another to be totally closed off to those differences in practice.
and FWIW I went to school int he early 2000s an then later again in the 2010s… and in the 2010s that is when a lot of this 'anti conservatism started. in the 2000s most people I met at uni were totally comfortable with ‘conservative’ ideas. for example, for a woman to just be a stay at home mom and that be a perfectly valid life. in 2000s nobody cared, but in 2010s all the sudden that became ‘controversial’ and if you argued a stay at home mom was a valid way for a woman to live her life, you were ‘misogynistic’. I was frankly appalled that people thought this way. I noticed they generally were accepting of certain lifestyles and believes, but totally closed off/discriminatory/hostile to others.
You’re giving us a sample size of one which doesn’t really say anything.
That one person could have an off putting personality or subscribe to the more cultural war aspect of modern conservatism which doesn’t go well if you’re talking to members of minority groups.
the liberal sided is over represented because conservative viewpoints are systematically discriminated against in most universities.
just bringing them up for discussion is considered sacrilegious. as a grad student I would bring up conservative talking points sometimes in my political philosophy classes and people would socially shun me and call me names for suggesting that conservative viewpoints have any legitimacy whatsoever.
it’s one thing to say you are open to differences… and another to be totally closed off to those differences in practice.
and FWIW I went to school int he early 2000s an then later again in the 2010s… and in the 2010s that is when a lot of this 'anti conservatism started. in the 2000s most people I met at uni were totally comfortable with ‘conservative’ ideas. for example, for a woman to just be a stay at home mom and that be a perfectly valid life. in 2000s nobody cared, but in 2010s all the sudden that became ‘controversial’ and if you argued a stay at home mom was a valid way for a woman to live her life, you were ‘misogynistic’. I was frankly appalled that people thought this way. I noticed they generally were accepting of certain lifestyles and believes, but totally closed off/discriminatory/hostile to others.
You’re giving us a sample size of one which doesn’t really say anything.
That one person could have an off putting personality or subscribe to the more cultural war aspect of modern conservatism which doesn’t go well if you’re talking to members of minority groups.