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College profs are so liberal students have to pretend to be, too  — viewpoint diversity in crisis

Advocating for diverse viewpoints on campuses is now apparently akin to saying “All Lives Matter,” or pushing a supposedly sinister Make America Great Again plot.

That’s according to two recent op-eds, penned by professors at Stanford and Johns Hopkins, opposing efforts to get professors and students with different opinions onto campus.

Academia has lost public trust precisely because anyone not of the far-left is admonished on campuses. Accusing proponents of viewpoint diversity of being Trumpy conspiracists certainly doesn’t help.

Any professor who truly cares about academia should want more views on campus, regardless of their own politics.

“It’s profoundly anti-intellectual, and profoundly anti-scientific to politicize the question of viewpoint diversity,” John Tomasi, president of Heterodox Academy, told The Post.

“Without a diverse range of opinions, we will not be searching for knowledge. We will be leaning more towards something like indoctrination.”

The former Brown political science professor warns that, when certain viewpoints take over campus, minority views can become verboten.

“If you get to the point of imbalance where you can’t even ask a question without being attacked personally, then [something is] really going wrong,” he said. “That’s profoundly........

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