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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 univers
by eatonphil 4y 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 4y agoDisclaimer, 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.