The lack of diversity in Universities is alarming. But, it’s not related to race, gender, religion, or some other label you might think. There is a serious lack of diverse thought and it’s getting worse. If you’re conservative or at least don’t ascribe to any of the woke notions of the day you are silenced and shunned.
Between one-fifth and half of academics and graduate students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning grant applications, journal submissions and promotion cases. On a four-person panel, this virtually guarantees that a conservative will face discrimination.
Meanwhile, only 28% of American academics say they would be comfortable sitting with a gender-critical scholar over lunch, less even than the 41% who would sit with a Trump-voting colleague. Somehow this has become acceptable in a way it never would be for a person from a religious, as opposed to political, minority.
Some 75% of American and British conservative academics in social sciences and humanities say their departments offer a hostile climate for their beliefs. Nearly 4 in 10 American centrist faculty concur. This produces a chilling effect that results in self-censorship: I found that merely 9% of Trump-supporting academics say they would feel comfortable expressing their political beliefs to a colleague. Their progressive counterparts admit as much, with only 14% of all U.S. academics saying a Trump supporter would feel comfortable expressing his beliefs. In Britain, only 18% of Brexit-supporting academics would feel comfortable sharing their views, even though 52% of the British electorate supported Brexit.
Wall Street Journal
If there is no diversity of thought in universities then there is no education. They are suffering from a severe case of groupthink that is detrimental to a well rounded education. No one is thinking critically anymore and no one is free to express it. We’ve moved beyond dangerous.
It’s comic that those demanding diversity are the people forcing policies that promote the opposite.