Friday, February 21, 2014

Stupidity, thy name is elite University

Jonah Goldberg notices that elite Universities tend to breed intolerance.  I am shocked, shocked.  Read the whole thing.  Unless you believe in 'diversity'.

Which brings us back to the sages of Swarthmore and Harvard. They at least understand that ideological diversity is actually, like, you know, a thing. They just think it’s a bad thing.
More pernicious, however, is that they believe the question of justice is a settled matter. We know what justice is, so why let serious people debate it anymore? The millennia-old dialogue between Aristotle, Plato, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Rawls, Rorty, Hayek et al.? Shut it down, people. Or at least if the conversation heads in a direction where the Korns, Chings, and Streisands smell “oppression” — as defined solely by the Left — then it must not be “put up with.” Diversity demands that diversity of opinion not be tolerated anymore. 


Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/21/attacking_diversity_of_thought_121667.html#ixzz2tzjdQXbI
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