re: Yale and Columbia

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If so, I'd presume they are such a small fraction and that they bury their thoughts and ideas most likely don't hear of any due to the imminent threat of being "blackballed" and projected as an outcast.

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I think that's what is so scary about what academia has become. One of the things you used to get in college was exposure to different perspectives and viewpoints. But now anything that is not progressive left is prevented, eliminated, persecuted. It's a massive echo chamber. That's dangerous and not good for people ultimately becoming well rounded contributors to society.

(It's also why they are completely unable to handle things when life smacks them in the face after graduation, when they are no longer insulated from everything they don't agree with).