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Re:Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to di... by vannevar on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:16PM (#15817432)
It can, but the notion that ignorance can triumph by force is not the fault of the universities. What is their alternative? To pander to people who believe that Islamic terrorists are a greater threat to them than the ladder in their garage, that being gay is a conscious moral choice, and that tax cuts stimulate economic growth? Conservative backlash against science and mathematics is a consequence of the increasing availability of data directly contradicting most of their core intuitive beliefs. That they're choosing to shoot the messenger is not the messenger's fault.
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Re:Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to di... by creaghpatr on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:05PM (#15817923)
>To pander to people who believe that Islamic terrorists are a greater threat to them than the ladder in their garage

A poor straw man argument, and it's telling that you need untruthful hyperbole to make your point.

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Re:Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to di... by vannevar on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:54PM (#15818411)
In what sense is it a straw man argument? Republicans favor spending enormous amounts of money fighting Islamic terrorists, while ignoring much more probable threats. That is not hyperbole, it is sad truth.
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Re:Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to di... by carry_bit on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:16PM (#15818617)
Compare the rate for both of those aggregated over the last 5 years to the previous 5 years.
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Re:Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to di... by vannevar on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:30PM (#15819227)
Or you can simply look at the probability of various causes of death: http://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrori.... They don't specifically have ladder deaths, but at about 300/year, it would rank between heat waves and electricity on the list.
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