One Kind of Diversity Colleges Avoid

Re:One Kind of Diversity Colleges Avoid by FlyingLawnmower on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @11:40PM (#11532106)

This strikes me as a vast generalization. I think that the author of the article is also including people who have conservative economic views (he calls out libertarians as a marginalized group, who are socially liberal and economically conservative). Surely there's nothing about economic conservatism that flies against progress or probing the universe.

While I am not conservative, I believe there is a lot that can be learned from those with a conservative viewpoint.

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Re:One Kind of Diversity Colleges Avoid by nickbauman on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @11:51PM (#11532145)

Libertarians are in a special category. They are the ultimate utopians in the sense that they believe, perhaps in the complete absence of understanding of the role of the state in the creation of markets, that a market is purely a point of exchange between two or more individuals. There has never been such thing in history. Not in the sense that we understand civilization (for better or worse) as it is today.

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Re:One Kind of Diversity Colleges Avoid by meric on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @11:58PM (#11532166)

Libertarianism and Conservatism doesn't make sense, as you said. Discourse of these ideologies should be banned from university grounds.

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