New Report Highlights High Rates of Self-Censorship Among Conservative College Students
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A recent study has found that conservative students are more likely than liberal students to censor themselves on campus.
From The College Fix:
Conservative students are more likely than their liberal peers to censor their own opinions, according to four professors specializing in political science and business, who authored a University of North Carolina study on free expression published August 21.
Political scientists Timothy Ryan and Andrew Engelhardt of the University of North Carolina, political scientist Jennifer Larson of Vanderbilt, and business scholar Mark McNeilly of UNC surveyed students from eight UNC institutions “to better understand their experiences related to free expression and constructive dialogue.”
When students were asked about whether they worried about peers’ opinions of their ideological views, 68 percent of conservatives said yes, while just 31 percent of liberals said yes.
When asked whether they were worried about grades and the professor’s opinion regarding their ideology, for liberals, just seven percent worried about grades and twelve percent worried about professors’ opinions. In contrast, 42 percent of conservatives worried about their professors’ opinion, and 32 percent worried about their grades.
The studies’ authors “found little evidence that faculty create a highly politicized atmosphere in UNC System classrooms.”
Nonetheless, the authors also found that “significant number of students have concerns about stating their sincere political views in class and have self-censored because they were concerned about the potential reactions.”
Furthermore, they “find no evidence that the views students hold back run afoul of university policies against harassment or discrimination.”
“At most campuses, both self-identified liberals and self-identified moderates more often indicated that there are too few conservative speakers on their campus…More think there are too few conservative faculty,” they wrote.
Conservative students fear sharing political opinions more than liberal students? The odds of that are so low… I’m picking my lotto numbers as we speak…
Even if there is “no evidence” that professors will tank your grade over your political opinions, conservative students have come to expect it. I, for one, think about it all the time. Writing papers has become less of an exercise in critical thinking and more of a chore to craft an argument that won’t get your grade blown to bits.
The fact that young people don’t feel safe sharing their thoughts on sensitive subjects is ridiculous, and the fact that it’s we’ve normalized it is horrifying.
Fear is only utilized as a tool to sow the seeds of compliancy when the “ruler” has nothing else to use. Snowflakes don’t want to participate in civil debates because they know they’ll lose. They know what bothers them, but they don’t really know why. If they did, they wouldn’t have to use scare tactics in the first place.
We’re trying to cancel Shakespeare so as not to offend the Gen-Z snowflakes that have zero appreciation for classic literature. Yet, when others feel unsafe sharing their political opinions for fear of retaliation and ridicule, these very same snowflakes don’t give a sh*t. That, of course, would require them to think about someone other than themselves…
I talk a lot about hypocrisy on this site. The academic snowflake hypocrisy, however, is definitely in my “most infuriating” top three…
Our society needs to have more respect for the fact that we’ve all had a different lived experience. Due to this, we will also come to different conclusions on everything deserving of an opinion. You could have 100 people look at a problem and get 100 different solutions. This is not a bad thing (contrary to popular belief). It’s exactly what we should strive for. Think of all the good things we would have missed if the world’s brightest minds had listened when their critics told them to sit down and shut up…
There will always be people that tell you that. The point is not to listen to them when they do.
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Of course! Also in the workplace you can’t discuss being conservative or liking Trump. You’ll be lynched if you work with a diverse crowd (which you do pretty much anywhere).
You’re so right. I logged in to say the same thing. I can’t talk about politics at work; my CEO has “he/him” in his eSignature! We’re not SO liberal here that other opinions are crushed, but I surely don’t want to get into a political debate w my co-workers bc it could very well ruin good working relationships. I sit quietly and listen to liberals spew their bullshit, their hate for Trump voters, etc, and I just don’t contribute to the conversation. I personally think it’s bad form to talk about politics at work bc we’re here to do a job–not stump for our chosen candidate. So I lose respect for people who lecture their leftists beliefs in mixed work company. But I don’t engage bc I like keeping my work respect in tact. I even have to suffer through a Parisian colleague giving her take on the reversal of Roe v Wade or whatever the hot topic is during a call w her. Insufferable. I just change the subject after her rant and move on. She doesn’t “get” not talking about politics at work–or even the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule my company had in place about COVID vaccines. She asked me anyway, going against the policy our CEO had set, so I felt justified in lying to her. It’s some silent suffering we conservatives do, but I’m okay w it in certain settings bc that’s how the red wave happens–silent but effective voting to swing things back to common sense, normalcy, and decency.
That should tell you something.