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I feel like the main issue is that the Republican party has stood as against LGBT rights, women's rights and against global warming. If a professor is Republica
by haburka 9y ago
I feel like the main issue is that the Republican party has stood as against LGBT rights, women's rights and against global warming. If a professor is Republican, they have to find some way to reconcile the attack on science that so many right leaning politicians support. Also, science as a field has issues with gender disparity so to not be pro women's rights would also make them look like part of the problem. Additionally, a lot of the platform consists of biblical thought which is very unscientific.
- danielam 9y agoIf anything, I think you corroborate the article. The crude, unsophisticated caricature of conservatism you've presented is precisely the kind of caricature you are likely to come across at universities. It appears you assume there can be no sophisticated conservative position on the issues you've mentioned and that's precisely the problem. It isn't even a question of whether a student agrees with these other views. It's that students are never exposed to them in the first place. You might find this article illuminating: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-some-of-your-professors-see-you.html http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-some-of-your-pro...