Thread by @NGrossman81

“Academia needs more Republicans,” you say? OK, but which ones?
Supply-siders, religious traditionalists, NatSec hawks, Burkeans, and more sounds good.
But Trumpists? How?
Academia is in the truth business. Not sure how to accommodate a political movement committed to post-truth.

I tell students North Korea still has nukes threatening the US and allies. Do we need to hire someone who teaches that they don’t?
Or one who says Russia didn’t conduct an intel op targeting the 2016 US election?
Do med schools need to teach that hydroxychloroquine cures COVID?

I strive to make classes welcoming to students of a great variety of backgrounds and worldviews. I think all professors should.
“All arguments are welcome as long as you back them up with evidence,” I say.
To the extent Trumpism is a philosophy and pedagogy, it says the opposite.

People vote for all sorts of reasons, so this isn’t about party ID or vote choice.
There are definitely people who voted Trump and are also committed to truth (it’s complicated).
But they wouldn’t satisfy these demands for an intellectual diversity affirmative action-type push.

Same. I’ve had some fantastic conservative students.
This mostly isn’t coming from students. It’s primarily coming from ideologues, partisans, and culture warriors outside of academia.

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