{"id":533,"date":"2016-05-17T15:09:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=533"},"modified":"2016-05-17T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:09:24","slug":"heres-why-universities-wont-hire-people-that-think-like-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/05\/heres-why-universities-wont-hire-people-that-think-like-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why universities won&#8217;t hire people that think like you"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/496421770\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.498316% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/496421770?et=aDkDmQQDSv1Y3erjO7HcRQ&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=RStaOSujtFvM89mwb_PSltu1akR6vIUq1bmzLSQfXyE=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Universities have long been bastions for liberal orthodoxy, but today\u2019s college campuses are so actively suppressing voices from the right that students are being trained down a singular, progressive path.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Intellectual diversity is not a goal of American colleges. Most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/may\/8\/conservative-ideas-needed-on-campus-as-counterweig\/?page=all#pagebreak\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">avoid hiring conservative professors<\/a> at all and Christian applicants fare even worse. Even <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Nicholas Kristof recognizes this liberal intolerance and admitted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/08\/opinion\/sunday\/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent piece<\/a> that progressives believe in diversity, \u201cso long as they aren\u2019t conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re fine with people who don\u2019t look like us, as long as they think like us,\u201d Kristof added.<\/p>\n<p>And this is the same line of thinking that is rife on our college campuses. Freshmen show up willing to accept new ideas and yet are met with only one side that lasts through their entire education without much, if at all, of an opposing viewpoint. Not only are they shielded from conservative professors, but also conservative speakers, who often times are forced to cancel their appearances over student protests.<\/p>\n<p>So, why do universities, which pride themselves on intellectual diversity, have none at all? Well, I believe it has to do with the kind of citizens they want to produce: Americans dependent on a collectivist system. The American college campus is a microcosm of what the federal government has grown into: a governing body controlling its subservient citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Easily offended students are groomed into demanding a \u201csafe space\u201d for their feelings and that pattern continues once they graduate. They will then demand the same of their government.<\/p>\n<p>But this pattern could easily be broken if right-thinking professors were first hired, and then allowed to teach the value of free speech and explain our nation\u2019s history so the average snowflake student could understand that they aren\u2019t supposed to be dependent on the federal government, but independent, liberty-loving, self-governing citizens.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual diversity is not a goal of American colleges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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