Readers intolerant and against diversity

Matthew Copher
graduate student, Educational Administration

How is this you say? The professors and others writing to the Daily Egyptian condemning and in some cases calling for the firing of the conservative columnists are not respecting intellectual and political diversity.

Question: Why are they so extreme in their attacks against Alex Berezow and Brian Smith, calling for their suspension or firing?

Answer: Unlike their classes, they exercise no control over this forum.

Too many professors use their classes to espouse their ideology, whatever it may be, claiming objectivity and expressing through multiple means their intolerance of intellectual and political diversity. One of the means is to eject or otherwise censor conservative students from class for having the audacity to hold a belief dissimilar from their professor.

Unfortunately, this is not just my isolated experience. The conservative columnists are merely adding intellectual and political diversity to the culture of this campus.

Question: Why is that so threatening?

Answer: It is threatening as our professors realize when they do not control the intellectual forum, differing views will be revealed.

What better way to guarantee your view will be consumed and emulated by the students than to silence those who believe otherwise?

Matthew Copher
graduate student, Educational Administration

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