[bcheung]

The political class benefits from conflict and division like this. It gives them a scape goat they can use for whatever the pressing issue is at the moment and any consequences of their actions.

> US universities are not free environments of vigorous intellectual debate anymore

This seems like one of the most pressing dangers we are facing right now. How can this be changed? Where can people go to have honest intellectual debates?

[throwawaysea]

I think another question is whether it matters if there is a different place to have those debates. If a significant number of people enter universities and get indoctrinated into their monoculture, the minority that are exposed to a more diverse and honest intellectual debate elsewhere might as well not exist. It’s like when Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook ban someone or some group or some content: there may be other alternate spaces where the same content is shared but if it’s not part of the same gigantic mainstream network its real influence on society is nothing.