Originally posted by Starlight
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I saw an interesting article discussing that recently. It asked whether universities have a duty to teach stupid and incoherent and disproven ideas as being on par with intelligent and coherent and proven ideas: An 'equal time' for creation and evolution as it were. Because it found that the reason most universities weren't teaching 'conservative' ideas were because the universities simply considered the conservative ideas stupid/disproven/incoherent/wrong, so they taught what modern science supported and what modern academic research had found to be correct. Conservatives, in getting upset over this, are essentially asking for a 'safe space' for their ideas in unis, and are upset that their ideas don't meet normal criteria for correctness or truthfulness and hence are discarded in evidenced-based academic institutions.
I see this playing out among young people on the internet in its own way: In online discussions, the internet-savvy and education younger generation is extremely good at using google to research things and will link to relevant articles. Especially in forums that allow upvoting of helpful comments, the quality of the discussions can be very very high and claims are subjected to rigorous scrutiny and quickly downvoted if found to be in error. This seems to be allowing young people all across the Western world to reach a consensus understanding about politics that is very evidence-focused and leans very liberal/left/socialist.
I see this playing out among young people on the internet in its own way: In online discussions, the internet-savvy and education younger generation is extremely good at using google to research things and will link to relevant articles. Especially in forums that allow upvoting of helpful comments, the quality of the discussions can be very very high and claims are subjected to rigorous scrutiny and quickly downvoted if found to be in error. This seems to be allowing young people all across the Western world to reach a consensus understanding about politics that is very evidence-focused and leans very liberal/left/socialist.
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