> Test the logic of this aside by changing "Academics" to "software engineering" and replacing "Liberal" with "white/asian, straight, males." I don't think it h

> Test the logic of this aside by changing "Academics" to "software engineering" and replacing "Liberal" with "white/asian, straight, males." I don't think it holds up very well. I don't think the analogy applies: Software engineer quality don't vary in quality by gender and race and even if they did, we want to treat people as individuals. We don't want to discrimate based on those factors. But Academia is a meritocracy of ideas; we do want to discriminate strongly against bad ideas. It's not a place where everyone gets a hearing - if it was, students and professors would spend 99% of their time on nonsense, learn little, and make little progress in their fields. For example, I think AEI (his organization) have been climate change deniers. Should their ideas on climate change get an equal hearing in university science departments? What about creationists who think the world was created in the last 10,000 years? What about those who think the world is ending next week?