This interesting and seemingly comprehensive survey of free speech attitudes at US colleges was posted a few weeks ago: 2020 College Free Speech Rankings (also reproduced here). Useful complement to the FIRE Disinvitation Database.
Although it’s well known that there has been a large-scale shift against the concept of free speech on the Left over the past decade, marking a change from when conservative SJWs were instead more active in repressing Palestine activists, there is still a lot of college-to-college variation.
You can fiddle the rankings yourself by different demographics (e.g. liberals, conservatives, Trump approval, sex, etc.) or by separate criteria of “free speech” (e.g. tolerance of controversial speakers, admin support).
Not many clear patterns, but some are obvious:
- Universe of Chicago way ahead of everyone else.
- The University of California system does reasonably well (UCLA is 4th, even UCB is 28th/55). As I said, some reputations are not well-deserved.
- But some are: Harvard is 46th/55.
- Which is similar to conservative SJW Brigham Young University at 49th/55.
One additional interesting table from the report (h/t Ben Winegard):
This is not a side issue given 21st century demographic realities.
The combination of such attitudes amongst budding elites – not merely blank slatism per se, but strong opposition to even questioning it – coupled with the delegitimation of state borders amongst a significant component of it makes One Billion (African-)Americans a near certainty, with all the civilizational regression that entails. You’d need a “darkly enlightened” dictatorship to prevent that. Or hardcore Communism (complete with Iron Curtain), or transhumanist silver bullet. Else, idiocracy.
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Universe of Chicago way ahead of everyone else.
One of my scientific connections works at the University of Chicago. Maybe this is why I have been unable to convince him how dire the situation is becoming.
“conservative SJWs”
That’s a funny way of saying “Saturday people.”
Honestly, this report seems like an exercise in intellectual masturbation. You want to know the colleges that value free speech, do a google search of schools that have invited Ann Coulter or Charles Murray to speak and have not allowed leftists to assault them. That should answer all questions.
Remarkable the difference between Univ. of VA (Charlottesville) and Univ. of SC and Clemson Univ.
I’m skeptical of it all.
I am under the impression that the Univ of Chicago student body is overrepresented by Jewish homosexuals! Is that correct? If so, surprising free speech result since this student cohort are quintessential SJWs. Only explanation would be that the UoC administrators are super cohonies endowed!
When I saw “DePauw” at the end of the list, I thought of “DePaul”, which denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein after Dershowitz had him canceled.
I dunno.
The people associated with the University of Virginia tend to have a great deal of pride about the school’s heritage.
South Carolina has been desperate for corporate money for decades. They cuck for bucks.
I think that the rankings look pretty reasonable.
At first I was surprised about LSU doing poorly; but the case against LSU looks pretty solid.
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2020/10/09/lsu__best_in_football_one_of_the_worst_in_free_speech_110484.html
So, the rankings look pretty reasonable so far.
What would be wrong with one billion Africo-Americans? Most Americans surely appear fine with it, and such countries as Uganda, Rwanda, and Ghana (all with less coronavirus deaths than South Korea) appear to have done fine with tackling coronavirus, which no European countries of a similar population have. Even Zimbabwe and Malawi have been lightly hit, if you believe the official statistics. Afrotriumph is the corollary to Asiatriumph, and if 2020 has been anything, it has been the human development equivalent to the Russo-Japanese war. Civilizational regression my foot.
So you’ll be moving to Kampala? Or at least to Detroit?
Chicago is indeed its own universe. 🙂
University of Chicago though is not far from the South Side, the gunfire on the weekends over there will make you want to move to Baghdad for some peace and quiet. Talk about your based and red pilled.
Arguably, the marketplace of ideas is a fiction, and it only matters what the establishment thinks. So, more the partisan affiliations of professors and administrators, than the free speech environment.
I know very well what Detroit is like. I’m assuming the one billion Africo-Americans will not resemble current lead-addled post-industrial slave descendants too closely. A risky bet, but not a ridiculous one.
How much freedom of speech is there in the Imperium, as much as in Harvard? What will happen to someone who advocates for AI?
Upstate SC (i.e. Clemson) has not been desperate for corporate money for a long time. The metro Colombia area (USC) on the other hand probably has been desperate, as it is a niggra infested serial crime scene throughout.
It is heavily Jewish, but my impression is that the Jews there have always been somewhat deracinated compared to coastal Jews. Perhaps because U of Chicago never had the WASP pedigree of Ivy League schools, there was no Jewish ethnic triumphalism in dominating it. Instead, Jewish overrepresentation was merely a consequence of Jewish cognitive outperformance. So perhaps its an actual case of that oft cited but seldom seen phenomenon: a meritocracy.
Or maybe being further from traditional Jewish centers like Brooklyn and Beverly Hills, Jews in Chicago just drift more towards the American middle.
If the Jews there are more homosexual than average for Jews, I can’t say.
As for why it is so far ahead of everyone else in freedom of speech … there definitely is a cultural tradition in that direction. When “safe spaces” and cancel culture were first becoming a mania, the dean sent a letter to incoming freshmen saying, in effect, forget about safe spaces or canceling rhetorical opponents, you’re coming here to think, not to evade.
I think what underlies this tradition is that U of C prides itself on intellectual acumen much more than the traditional Ivy League-style “well rounded” gentlemen-scholar institutions do. At Chicago, intellectual truth is everything. Social class, athleticism, wealth, etc. count for naught. No self-respecting professor, or even student, wants to admit that his intellect cannot withstand someone else’s argument. Cancelling an opponent is really just admitting you’re too dumb to compete. No U of C-er wants that shame.
Is there not data that Episcopalians score higher or as high as Jews, and that there are a lot more Episcopalians around in the US than Jews? So there should be no basis for Jews dominating any academic institution on the basis of IQ alone. But then IQ does not account for such things related to as competitiveness, and that could account for that. Incidentally, what would an intelligent, but highly nepotistic group look like anyway?
As for the haredi and orthodox, is there any proof that they are dumber? Maybe they are just not interested in taking the type of intelligence tests that non-haredis take.
My original statement about overrepresentation of homosexuals of the Jewish variety at the U of C was a one-off repeat of what someone at UR once said. Perhaps I should not have repeated it without further checking it out. BTW, once again thanks for your thorough and welcome response. And VIVA the U of C!
It is easy to complain how the Imperium is a bunch of stuck ups not allowing people to say what they really want to say when you live in an agri world or a medieval world surrounded by 100 chapters of Space Marines whose only job is to guard your agri world?
https://japanese-wiki-corpus.github.io/history/Jinruikan%20Incident%20(Humankind%20Pavilion%20Incident).html
Well at least Mormons have managed to create well functioning societies? Libertarians? And no, US society before 1960 was not Libertarian.
The archetype UofC Jewish homosexual was Allan Bloom. In fact, he is the only one I know of. He was about the opposite of an SJW.
Much of the frontier West was libertarian. The contrast between the libertarian, ramshackle non-Mormon American West and the orderly, clean, well-organised traditionally Mormon parts of the Old West is striking.
The rewards of bad data.
Canada and Australia are able to combine blank slatism with cognitively elitist immigration policies, no? Thus, in theory, why can’t the US do the same thing?