Why are leftist Universities so intolerant of speakers who voice opposing views?

Question

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/19/america/NA-GEN-US-Columbia-Immigration-Fracas-Speaker.php

Answer 1

It might cause.................. independent thought!

That of course can not be tolerated!

Answer 2

Good work, Sharia Vigilant, for bringing Mr. Heston's views to YA. I'll be reading the book he mentioned. The term "political correctness" derived from the Frankfurt School's think tank, made up of five jewish marxists who had fled Nazi Germany in the '30s and settled at Columbia University, was a more acceptable term for the original term, Cultural Marxism. Cultural Marxism was the name for the plan to introduce communism to America by infiltrating the american university system. The tactic was to train educators in the university system, so that they could train the youth of America to embrace the repudiation of all of America's traditional values and thereby accomplish that system of belief which had been such a dismal failure in the USSR. They realized that the reason that marxism had to be militarily enforced in the USSR was that they had not indoctrinated the youth of Russia, but had attempted to retrain patriotic adult Russians, which turned out to be a failed strategy due to the Russian's love for their country.

Answer 3

nicely it relies upon, incredibly it must be any type of issues. individually i'm no longer so rapid to objective and decide those human beings nevertheless. each existence has a narrative and everyone has a reason for believing what they do. from time to time some human beings might have self assurance so strongly that(based on the subject rely) they actually get disgusted with the opposing view. alongside with a rape sufferer being offended whilst somebody says rape could be criminal. Technically she's being "illiberal" of an opposing view. yet she has a valid reason to a good distance as i'm worried. i think that could extra healthy under hyper-gentle.... yet you get my factor. That and, unlike maximum individuals i've got met, i like to a minimum of evaluate for a short 2d that i need to be incorrect or possibly how what I reported ought to offend others.

Answer 4

They want to shut down anyone else exercising free speech, all the while claiming that they are only using it themselves.
These people do not want any other agendas to be heard.
The Liberal Left even coined a term for views opposing their own.....they call it "hate speech" and they aren't afraid to whip it out as fast as Al Sharpton whips out the race card.

Many Libs here in YA attach that term quite freely to any conservative viewpoints, in fact, the "hate speech" term is what will be the key in getting their "fairness doctrine" in place, so they can begin the dismantling of conservative radio talk shows.

Answer 5

Well, let me clarify some of their quotes.

"it has become clear that this event cannot take the form we had originally hoped." THIS MEANS THAT THEY CANNOT HAVE A ONE SIDED DISCUSSION THAT CALLS THE MINUTEMEN VIGILANTES AND RACISTS.

"could not effectively accomplish the goals we had hoped it might." THIS MEANS THEY CANNOT LIE AND INDOCTRINATE THE STUDENTS.

"The health of a free society and a university depends on the free expression of ideas. Only through a free expression of ideas can we reach the truth," THIS PROVES THAT THE LEFTISTS ARE DESTROYING THE USA. THEY DO NOT WANT THE EXCHANGE OF CONSERVATIVE OR TRADITIONAL IDEAS.

This is typical of the behavior of these maniacs. Liberals want free speech that mirrors their emotional and irrational views.

Answer 6

'Social Studies Majors' lessons have been controlled by the "Correctly Enlightened and Educated", Professors, for generations, and with each generation, additional hardening of the "Interjectional Thoughts Processing" take place, as their inter / subconscious abilities are forced to accept the bovine scatology (Toros Manuros Ca-Ca) !!!
FACT ::The best way to achieve a long enduring goal, is to indoctrinate the young !!!!To tolerate any opposing viewpoint / ideas, is to invite disruption of the goal.
toro gringo

Answer 7

University of Buffalo is sponsoring Michael Moore. The professors opposed Colin Powell last year. That's because they are all in favor of Free speech, love diversity, and champion Justice. These are the same professors who call the Republican party the culture of corruption, but are never challenged on their union affiliation for their State government salaries and pensions.

Answer 8

Allowing opposing views wastes time. Who needs facts when you have a newspaper article declaring debate over and that a consensus has been reached?

Answer 9

In my opinion,they're the same anti-american, protest marching, draftcard burning commies that spat on me for serving my country 47 years ago.They want to brainwash young minds to adhere to they're ideologic agendas.They don't want to hear opposing views because they have no answers. More than one person has walked away from me because my argumemt was strong and they had no comeback.Who are the free thinkers now?

Answer 10

Who told you they were? Who told you that 'universities' were 'leftist'? Why would you believe that? Also, what opposing views are you talking about. If folks such as yourself wold just be specific you might get better answers. Basically all you're doing is repeating the views of the right wing talk show guys...guys that get paid to say these things. It's called propaganda...oddly, more and more people are seeing through it. My advise is for you to simply state your thesis and forget about being a parrot. What opposing viewpoint are you in favor of?

Answer 11

See it's a DEMOCRACY so the majority rules I know you guys hate that and would prefer a dictatorship but too bad it's not how it works, obviously there was a MAJORITY who disapproved of the speaker so they were canceled, you know you amaze me, during the Bush/Cheney campaign you had to sign a loyalty oath to attend a campaign event but we're intolerant of opposing views, what a stack of chit