NYT: Affirmative Action For Conservatives?

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@Corinthian wrote:

It’s no doubt nice to “allow” or “pay attention to” conservative arguments. But I think Roth recognized the benefit of what the Heterodox Academy advocates: actual diversity of viewpoints among faculty, speakers and students for dynamic interaction, discussion and testing of each other’s arguments. As John Stuart Mill said in the quote in #26, it is far better to hear and challenge an argument from one who really believes it than from a teacher who presents it together with the teacher’s own refutation.

Guest speakers are fine. So long as they have actual, supportable arguments and not just invective. Charles Murray=yes, Milo Yiannapoulos=no.