There is a major problem with college campuses and not many people tend to care. The issue with colleges and universities is their obvious leftist bias and how they indoctrinate students. Colleges and universities create echo chambers and promote identity politics, shielding many students from reality.
The topics of echo chambers and identity politics are both dangerous. To start, the term "echo chamber" is being used describe how class rooms within colleges and universities produce no intellectual conflict, and that it is all one sided preaching. These students go in, listen to the radical or mostly false teachings of their professor and then proceed to reverberate the message. Anyone with a dissenting view is greeted with hostility. It is a conflict between the left and right, leftism versus conservatism.
It is noticeable that the left will use the terms "conservative" and "bigot" simultaneously. They are not synonyms, yet from the indoctrination of administrators, college students are taught to believe that. Intellectual diversity is hard to find on a campus, and that helps facilitate the one sided mindset. The left likes to pride themselves by claiming how they are tolerant and "champions for diversity". In reality they only care if you align with them, and any conversation questioning the narrative is seen as a threat. The only type of diversity they do not care for is that of intellectual diversity, and thus begins the game of identity politics with them.
Identity politics is just a useless tactic for someone engaging in political discussion that for the most part does not have information to defend their position. Identity Politics is forming an alliance with those who share similar traits, mainly based on race or social background. For example, if I gave my thoughts on how to help inner cities, because I am white, my thoughts would be negated simply because of my race.This ideology has plagued college campuses. My race or economic background should not have the majority of influence behind what I say. Facts, logic, and truth should hold the most weight. It is hard to get your points across when nonsense buzzwords like "white privilege" are thrown around. It has influenced many areas outside the college realm, even here at the Odyssey and I am not talking about the writers. When you write an article for the Odyssey, you can select a category to which it belongs and one of those categories is "Identities". Then you must select which identity the article belongs in and they have everything, including "white privilege". That is asinine. This game is being played on the other side as well and it needs to end. When identity politics rule, racism and polarization thrive.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is going to elect a new chancellor and they had listening sessions open for people to voice their thoughts on what they would like to see in a chancellor. I went to the student listen session and I pressured the panel that UNO is moving in the wrong direction, that we need a chancellor to promote intellectual diversity. American universities and colleges are becoming these social justice warrior breeding grounds thanks in large part to the administrations. Students need to engage in intellectual conflict and listen to others with different ideas to gain a new perspective. Administrations need to encourage this as well and help end the echo chamber and identity politics nonsense.
