No, Professors Aren't Discriminating Against Conservative Students

Re:No, Professors Aren't Discriminating Against Conservative... by tdb7893 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:43PM (#20578332)

Gender and political ideology are very different. They're the same in that they are generally social constructs but the reasons people align with one or the other and how society views them isn't the same.

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Re:No, Professors Aren't Discriminating Against Conservative... by deogeo on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:03PM (#20578514)

I don't think AnimalMuppet is saying they're the same, but that, if we were half as motivated at finding reasons why conservatives feel discouraged from some academic fields, as we are for why women are, we'd come up with something.

Especially since the left:right ratios used to be more even [1] (please excuse the source), so it doesn't look like conservatives are intrinsically against academic careers. While as gender equality increases, STEM fields get more gender-imbalanced [2].

[1] https://www.dailywire.com/news/30222/how-politically-biased-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox

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Re:No, Professors Aren't Discriminating Against Conservative... by tdb7893 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:19PM (#20578661)

I'm still confused what the point was bringing gender into it. If he's not saying they are the same they seem orthogonal to me.

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Re:No, Professors Aren't Discriminating Against Conservative... by deogeo on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:27PM (#20578742)

I think to highlight that the standard to show that no discrimination is happening is much lower for political orientation, than for gender.

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