Billionaire Bloomberg Makes Sense
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke to Harvard students yesterday morning and warned the university body of the dangers of intolerance towards non-liberal viewpoints.
In the 1950s, the right wing was attempting to repress left wing ideas. Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species. And that is probably nowhere more true than it is here in the Ivy League. In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data, 96% of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees went to Barack Obama. 96%. There was more disagreement among the old Soviet politburo than there is among Ivy League donors
What boring places universities must be. When I attended I enjoyed the rhetoric and arguments of all sides and changed my opinion as often as Madonna changed her look. But even back then in the 80’s the shift was towards the hard Left and the right was withering. Eventually by the time I graduated the only challenges to the ruling liberal orthodoxy were found in the campus humor newspaper, and after attempts to ban it failed it was often “disappeared” from newspaper boxes.
That was 25 years ago. I can only imagine what it’s like there today.
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