Comment by mapontosevenths

> Which viewpoint did you oppose? It matters.

> If it was "Women should be allowed to vote" I can understand the teachers reluctance to engage in debate.

I was in a class like this at an elite school 3 decades ago. I was told by two other students that my role as a cis straight white male was to say nothing or validate what others said.

This was during a time that the core concepts of what is currently called DEI were being fleshed out.

My “sin” was asking whether certain research and data were being reported and represented accurately (they weren’t). The creative interpretations led to policy suggestions that were about 180 degrees from what the author intended. How did I know that? I knew the researcher and had discussed it with him directly.

That class was an absolute circle jerk, and it’s the kind of circle jerk that gives progressives a very bad name while being completely unnecessary (i.e., many parts of the progressive agenda have plenty of solid research support without wildly creative interpretations).

Anyway, the professor in this class was having none of it. He appreciated my questions. That said, half the class thought I was satan incarnate.