Thread by @Dreamweasel

In a perfect world, what percentage of the student body would believe that COVID is mostly a hoax, masks are tyranny, the COVID vaccine is worthless and that Donald Trump was justified in the January 6th insurrection?

30%? 50%?

Because that is the Republican mainstream now.

https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1442600155992240132

“Ideological diversity” is an expression invented by conservatives to imply that opponents of their ideology are bigots.

Ideology is malleable. Nobody is born believing stupid shit & forced to live with it forever. Ideology is not a birth characteristic.

Many ideas get phased out of public discourse. But you can’t force people to make room for bad ideas just because some people still believe them.

Bemoaning lack of ideological diversity is contrary to the very “marketplace of ideas” conservatives once claimed to support.

There’s a reason almost no Harvard students are Trump supporters. It’s because they’re educated, and they pay attention.

I suppose this addendum was directed primarily to the author of the original post: ⬇️

https://twitter.com/Dreamweasel/status/1442840304952954885

HARVARD: 87% of our incoming students believe Donald Trump is an incoherent, self-obsessed, & criminally negligent pathological liar. Whereas 6.3% of them thought virtually everyone else was lying and only Donald Trump told the truth.

SULLIVAN: So much for ideological diversity

Again, when our major binary political division boils down to TRUMP vs. OTHER, there’s gonna be a whole lot of us lumped into the OTHER category. There’s no small amount of diversity between socialists, liberals, centrists, and anti-Trump conservatives.