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Originally Posted by kevman
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Yes, it looks like the conformity and insularity of college culture is finally bearing the rotten fruit that many have been predicting for years. This hits a bullseye:
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While some of the political differences between educated and working-class voters is based on a dispute over hard facts, the much broader and more foundational disagreements are about norms and values. They turn on first principles grounded in the very different intuitions and stories which animate very different political cultures. Such disagreements cannot be explained by the fact that college-educated voters know some facts which non-college educated voters do not. They are about something far more fundamental...
...Thus today’s college graduates are formed by a campus culture that leaves them unable to understand people with unfamiliar or heterodox views on guns, abortion, religion, marriage, gender and privilege. And that same culture leads such educated people to either label those with whom they disagree as bad people or reduce their stated views on these issues as actually being about something else, as in Obama’s case. Most college grads in this culture are simply never forced to engage with or seriously consider professors or texts which could provide a genuine, compelling alternative view.
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I've given up expecting universities to live up to their ideal as the most open forums of debate in society, places that foster and tolerate the widest diversity of viewpoints. I'd be happy if they were as intellectually and socially diverse as a typical Tim Horton's.