College students never learn self reliance, because of this

Universities have long been bastions for liberal orthodoxy, but today’s college campuses are so actively suppressing voices from the right that students are being trained down a singular, progressive path.

Intellectual diversity is not a goal of American colleges. Most avoid hiring conservative professors at all and Christian applicants fare even worse. Even New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recognizes this liberal intolerance and admitted in a recent piece that progressives believe in diversity, “so long as they aren’t conservative.”

“We’re fine with people who don’t look like us, as long as they think like us,” Kristof added.

And this is the same line of thinking that is rife on our college campuses. Freshmen show up willing to accept new ideas and yet are met with only one side that lasts through their entire education without much, if at all, of an opposing viewpoint. Not only are they shielded from conservative professors, but also conservative speakers, who often times are forced to cancel their appearances over student protests.

So, why do universities, which pride themselves on intellectual diversity, have none at all? Well, I believe it has to do with the kind of citizens they want to produce: Americans dependent on a collectivist system. The American college campus is a microcosm of what the federal government has grown into: a governing body controlling its subservient citizens.

Easily offended students are groomed into demanding a “safe space” for their feelings and that pattern continues once they graduate. They will then demand the same of their government.

But this pattern could easily be broken if right-thinking professors were first hired, and then allowed to teach the value of free speech and explain our nation’s history so the average snowflake student could understand that they aren’t supposed to be dependent on the federal government, but independent, liberty-loving, self-governing citizens.