Reply #14: Actually... [View All]

[ElboRuum]

These sorts have always been there, however, at least most have had the temerity to understand that they are, endemically and logically, in hostile territory and grotesquely outnumbered on college campuses. They still are. Most schools are varying in their liberalism, however, you'll find that most schools regardless of their liberalism still encourage and enforce a liberal standpoint with regard to political and academic issues. In other words, so long as you respect the environment and purpose of a particular school, you can largely float any view you want unmolested whether that view is minority or not, however, intolerance of other views is largely frowned upon, specifically if those views target specific groups in a discriminatory or prejudical way. That's the sort of speech this orange shirt thing is, and it is the focus of these sorts of right-wing campus groups.

This is where the train gets derailed these days. No professor is required to toe a line on any view, and is not required to change it in "fairness" with doctrines they don't believe in. Liberal institutions have a right to enforce tolerance if they so choose, even if it impacts the speech of individuals who disagree. These are private institutions which, like the entire of the post-secondary educational system is predicated on the no-fault, opt-in principle... you don't like the school, go to a different one, or don't go at all. The fact of the matter is that colleges are predicated on the free pursuit of academic and philosophical rigors, and are not required to mainstream at the behest of those in the student body who promote closed-mindedness in the interest of mainstream traditionalism or outright prejudice. So-called liberal speech follows the rules of tolerance as in place on most, if not all, college and university campuses while those of these right-wing campus groups do not.