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And to think you claimed to have a IQ of 140 go figure. But I love how a hawkeye reads one post on forum, and automatically has enough corroboration to support his ever waggish and outright imbecilic theory that, "LIBERALISM IS [FACIST] WITH CORE BELIEFS OF TRANNY AND SUPPRESSION, [RUN RUN RUN]."
Well, if the shoe fits, wear it. You're promoting banning people from a public college because of their political beliefs Mr. Marx.
A liberal education by definition is a well-rounded one that has exposed the student to a variety of points of view, and hopefully enabled the student to reason critically.
Yes, Republicans should be allowed on college campuses. It's a ridiculous idea to think otherwise.
I went to college at both a city college and, for the last 2 years, at a private university. They both had one thing in common and that was they had "College Republicans" and other neo con clubs that, at both colleges, were out of step with the vast majority of the students there. They handed out pro Reagan literature and put out a weekly newspaper. They were tolerated by the majority of students until they invited an unpopular dictator (think his name was Calero or something like that) to come and speak which erupted into a riot with blood being thrown and the liberals running the speaker off the platform. After that they became pretty much a non item and the newspaper went away because the local advertisers in Evanston did not want to deal with the politics of it anymore.
But it occurs to me that the university tolerated the Republicans because they believe in free speech. But conservative universities such as Bob Jones, Regent and Liberty do not allow Democrats on campus. If you go to school there and they discover that you are a Democrat, you can be expelled. Democrats are not allowed to speak on campus.
So my question is, why should the College Republicans be allowed to exist on liberal campuses where most of the student body detest them and everything they stand for?
This is intolerance KevK. You may not view it as such but it most certainly is.
The one thing that I will say about Obama was that, in college at least, he walked in both political circles. It may have been a strategy to get the conservative vote for Editor of the Law Review, but at least he did it.
Besides, more of these kids will be conservatives than liberals by the time they hit 30 anyway so might as well become familiarized with it in college.
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
Winston Churchill et al.
While I agree that it is an absolutely absurd idea to ban College Republicans, I think you guys are missing the point. KevK's point was that Universities with a conservative culture are not allowing College Democrats on campus, so why are Universities with a liberal culture still allowing for College Republicans. Whether or not he actually believes liberal universities should ban College Republicans, I can't speak for. But I'm pretty sure he was mainly trying to point out the hypocrisy of the right, which has recently been going crazy claiming that liberals are the intolerant ones who want to silence all other views, yet they're not the ones doing this. Although by him actually proposing that College Republicans be banned, that totally backfired.
Wow, I thought the left was all about the FREE exchange of ideas. OK, I will concede that CERTAIN colleges can keep certain views out , if they so wish. Students who attend such schools are not looking to expand outside a narrow view anyway. That is their loss. But, major universities should not be this way.What the OP is advocating here is turning all our higher learning institutions into liberal, leftist madrassas. Dangerous thinking. truthfully, both my wife and I had a hard enough time in the university we went to when we tried to go back to school a few years back. Many of the professors were raving left wing lunatics, and one comment, contrary to their point of view would set off a blathering, hostile rant worthy of any 60's flower power rally. Mentioning that my Dad was in Viet Nam, voluntarily,started a couple of donnybrooks that would put an Irish pub to shame. My wife letting out she is a BabtistChristian in a 'Family Dynamics' class started a similar storm of rhetoric. The latter ended with charges being filed against the professor,by about 3/4 of the class. Long story, but it needed to happen. Closing down points of view is a wacko, radical, and dangerous thing.
Some of the far left wonder why they're called commies and fascists and such...
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