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A decently nuanced take. We don't want universities to be an echo chamber, however, neither do I want it to be a place where we pretend that "both sides" are equally valid. Rather, a spirit of inquiry should be welcome, and congealing around a left-authoritarianism is not healthy either.

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It doesn't matter what "we want". What matters is what the customer wants. The people paying 50k/year have decided that they want to go to schools where right wing views are not tolerated.

In that case we need proper labelling of entities releasing certificates, so that those who want to develop knowledge and critical thinking go in the right place, opposed to those entities in which the opposite - "doctrine" - is imparted.

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> what the customer wants

On that basis, one does not see how the entity can ever emit a valid title.

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