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Looking through their website, it doesn't look right-leaning (to someone unfamiliar with FIRE before just now). They recently started organizing against Florid

Looking through their website, it doesn't look right-leaning (to someone unfamiliar with FIRE before just now). They recently started organizing against Florida's "Stop WOKE Act": https://www.thefire.org/fire-calls-on-florida-institutions-and-faculty-to-push-back-against-unconstitutional-stop-woke-act-and-if-necessary-to-ignore-it-entirely/ https://www.thefire.org/fire-calls-on-florida-institutions-a...

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eatonphil 5y ago
If you go to their college free speech rankings page [0] most of the comments are about how conservative students don't feel comfortable on colleges and universities (private and public, to my slight surprise). I can see how someone might make take that as conservative friendly since they are mostly featuring conservative students expressing fear about talking about conservative ideas. I'm not making a judgement on any of that. [0] https://rankings.thefire.org/ https://rankings.thefire.org/
- r3trohack3r 5y ago
  Disclaimer, I have no context about FIRE. But, I feel there are a few possible reasons for this: If the culture on a college campus has little-to-no bias towards sharing or suppressing conservative ideas, them singling out conservative ideas being suppressed would give you enough of a signal that they are conservative leaning. If the culture on a college campus biases towards sharing conservative ideas, them singling out conservative ideas being suppressed would give you enough of a signal that they are conservative leaning. If the culture on a college campus biases towards suppressing conservative ideas, them singling out conservative ideas being suppressed wouldn't generate enough of a signal to justify calling them conservative leaning. TL;DR: whether or not you consider their stance as conservative leaning will be strongly influenced by how you perceive discourse on a college campus.

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eatonphil 5y ago

If you go to their college free speech rankings page [0] most of the comments are about how conservative students don't feel comfortable on colleges and universities (private and public, to my slight surprise). I can see how someone might make take that as conservative friendly since they are mostly featuring conservative students expressing fear about talking about conservative ideas. I'm not making a judgement on any of that. [0] https://rankings.thefire.org/ https://rankings.thefire.org/

r3trohack3r 5y ago
Disclaimer, I have no context about FIRE. But, I feel there are a few possible reasons for this: If the culture on a college campus has little-to-no bias towards sharing or suppressing conservative ideas, them singling out conservative ideas being suppressed would give you enough of a signal that they are conservative leaning. If the culture on a college campus biases towards sharing conservative ideas, them singling out conservative ideas being suppressed would give you enough of a signal that they are conservative leaning. If the culture on a college campus biases towards suppressing conservative ideas, them singling out conservative ideas being suppressed wouldn't generate enough of a signal to justify calling them conservative leaning. TL;DR: whether or not you consider their stance as conservative leaning will be strongly influenced by how you perceive discourse on a college campus.