Asymmetrical illiberalism (i.e. that illiberal liberals vastly outnumber illiberal conservatives on college campuses) is a major problem for higher ed. This post offers a data-driven explanation of why.
If you can't contemplate why someone might have a different point of view, why would you let them speak?
Once you've got all the answers, why ask questions?
Once you've got a certain set of taboos, when you've been taught that only evil people can believe these things for evil reasons, then its inevitable your going to build an intellectual construct where they have to be destroyed.
I don't mean to preach relativism. Relativism lost pretty hard to illiberal liberalism. Something more like discerning humility.
If you can't contemplate why someone might have a different point of view, why would you let them speak?
Once you've got all the answers, why ask questions?
Once you've got a certain set of taboos, when you've been taught that only evil people can believe these things for evil reasons, then its inevitable your going to build an intellectual construct where they have to be destroyed.
I don't mean to preach relativism. Relativism lost pretty hard to illiberal liberalism. Something more like discerning humility.
This isn't just a problem in education, entertainment has this as does big tech.