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by stephencanon 1856 days ago
Are you suggesting that Stanford needs to lower its standards to create reserved spaces for Republicans?
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I don't see why anyone should get special treatment, but the OP is suggesting that they do whatever they do for other groups to create reserved spaces for Republicans. There's this whole explanation about how it's not technically lowering-of-standards but I don't remember the details. I think it has something to do with only using their demographic to change your decision if they are equally as promising as someone else with a different demographic.
They already did that, it's called the Hoover Institution.
I think that does make sense.
Touché
Of course not. I am not actually sure how to solve this problem. I think a good start would be to move back towards encouraging freedom of speech on campus and dialog between people with different opinions.
If one of those sides specializes in ignoring verifiable facts, and is of the "opinion" that entire groups of people shouldn't exist, I'm not sure there's much to be gained by any sort of "dialog".
Are you suggesting that this is fair characterisation of Republicans in a general sense? I'm not sure that all Republicans would agree with this. And I definitely consider myself on the liberal side of the political spectrum.

I can empathise that it's difficult to have a dialog with some individuals who are only interested in convincing you of the correctness of their world view and not understanding others, but inflamatory rhetoric like this doesn't help.

61% of republicans believe the election was stolen and 53% believe Trump is the true president. That is an untenable detachment from facts and reality from a major political party.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/news/pol...

If I mention a sea lion do you understand what I'm talking about?
The only real obstacle to “freedom of speech on campus” is the college Republicans agitating to get an AP writer fired based on her involvement with SJP as an undergrad.
if reserving slots for republicans == lower standards

to you... ...you're a little prejudicial and ignorant