Jonathan Haidt, confirmed Liberal and atheist takes his colleagues to task.
Sample:
I submit to you that the under-representation of conservatives in social psychology, by a factor of several hundred, is evidence that we are a tribal moral community that actively discourages conservatives from entering. … We should take our own rhetoric about the benefits of diversity seriously and apply it to ourselves. … Just imagine if we had a true diversity of perspectives in social psychology. Imagine if conservative students felt free enough to challenge our dominant ideas, and bold enough to pull us out of our deepest ideological ruts. That is my vision for our bright post-partisan future.
There’s more at the linked article, a demonstration of an exception proving (“proving” here meaning “testing” as most of my readers would know) the rule that contemporary “liberals” are anything but. Liberal, that is. Haidt apparently is one of the few genuine liberals left in the American Academia Nut Fruitcake Bakeries laughingly called “institutions of higher learning”.
He should get ready to be ostracised. All too many ideologues can’t handle the thought of having their ideas challenged.
It’s refreshing to find people that are… whether they’re liberal or conservative. I wish there were more people willing to honestly debate rather than shout down the opposition.
The very UNstrange thing abut people who “win” debates by shouting down their opposition is that they are the ones who whine the most when they find someone who’s studied their tactic and can, and will, shout louder when faced with such abhorrent behavior. They really cannot stand it when someone opposed to them throws their behavior back in their face harder than they can throw… or catch. Weenies.
But I do agree that I appreciate the few (almost vanishingly few) among the Academia Nut Fruitcakes who are neither nuts nor willing to be baked into fruitcakes.