{"id":18542,"date":"2016-12-11T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18542"},"modified":"2016-12-11T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:31:01","slug":"liberals-should-heed-advice-from-one-of-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18542","title":{"rendered":"Liberals should heed advice from one of their own"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nicholas Kristof makes no apologies for being a liberal thinker.<\/p>\n

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Nor should he. The New York Times columnist, though, offers a serious word of caution to his fellow liberals and progressives: If you mean what you say about demanding diversity in all aspects of contemporary life, then do not\u00a0shut out those ideas with which you disagree.<\/p>\n

Kristof\u2019s essay in the Sunday New York Times echoes a recurring theme on which he has written before.<\/p>\n

He chides universities and colleges for becoming echo chambers, for demonstrating unwillingness to hear thoughts expressed by those on the right, even the far right.<\/p>\n

He says this about his fellow liberals: \u201cWe champion tolerance, except for conservatives and evangelical Christians. We want to be inclusive of people who don\u2019t look like us \u2014 so long as they think like us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ouch, man!<\/em><\/p>\n

He\u2019s correct. We see this played out on occasion when universities invite noted conservatives to speak on their campuses. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been victimized by outrage expressed by liberal faculty members and student body officers; so has Condoleezza Rice, the former national security adviser and secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n

Even here in the Texas Panhandle, when one-time Bush presidential strategist Karl Rove was invited a few years ago to deliver a speech at a West Texas A&M University graduation event, you\u2019d have thought WT had invited the spawn of Satan himself, based on some of the reaction.<\/p>\n

Kristof has delivered a sound message for all his fellow liberals to heed. If you truly want diversity of thought and opinion, then open your own eyes, ears \u2026 and minds.<\/p>\n

As Kristof writes: \u201cIt\u2019s ineffably sad that today \u2018that\u2019s academic\u2019 often means \u2018that\u2019s irrelevant.\u2019 One step to correcting that is for us liberals to embrace the diversity we supposedly champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amen, brother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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