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Re:Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to di... by lj3 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:21PM (#15817481)
> further way from participating in consensus reality

> increasingly less welcome in spaces dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.

Consensus reality is the opposite of the pursuit of knowledge. This is readily demonstrated by the decaying social trust in higher education.

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Re:Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to di... by sremani on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:04PM (#15817917)
Yes, that "truth" research papers with 50% failure to reproduce. No Thanks!
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Re:Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to di... by jtbayly on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:44PM (#15817703)
Exactly. They taught the world that truth was relative and then they have the gall to demand that everybody has to take the academy's truth as the absolute truth. No thanks, I'll keep my own truth. I like it better.
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