The university system hasn’t been a friend to conservatives or free speech — between safe spaces, trigger warnings, and institutionalized racism. Nonetheless two conservative professors insist that right-wingers can thrive on liberal universities.
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Associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College Jon Shields and Joshua Dunn, associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado—Colorado Spring wrote in the Washington Post on Friday about the conservative freakout about political correctness running amuck on college campuses.
The pair interviewed 153 conservative professors for their book — and found that they thrived on liberal campuses.
Nearly a third of conservative educators concealed their political opinion until after they received tenure, and then they expressed their right leaning opinions.
Dunn and Shields also said most campuses are not nearly as politically hostile as the media portrays.
While some fields of study are hostile to conservatives, including sociology, literature and modern American history, others are perfectly fine for people on the center-right because they focus more on methodological and theoretical divides than by political ones.
Basically colleges are like Iraq in 2004, as long as a conservative stays in the green zone, they’ll make it out alive.
Oddly, Dunn and Shields said that economics is untouched by political bias, but that has been proven false as Karl Marx is the most assigned economist in taught in U.S. colleges.
Both professors insist that conservatives have some hurdles to climb: right-wing professors are underrepresented and face hiring discrimination. Still they insist liberal campuses provide more benefits once a conservative can sneak in.
Basically liberal campuses are fantastic for right-wing professors if you can stay in the closest and only stay in the fields you belong in, an academic ghetto.
