John McWhorter: Leftist Bias Has Always Been There in Our Schools for the Last 100 Years

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McWHORTER: "Well, it doesn’t help that so much of the conservative world these days has gone utterly bat you-know-what crazy. That is a problem that, frankly, it’s not a good look. However, in terms of intelligent conservatism, yes, that’s a problem in our institutions of learning. A leftist bias, that has practically always been there since roughly 100 years ago. But what’s been going on lately is people who are appointed as our most high-thinking beings telling us that often a radical left agenda is not a proposition but is truth. So I find myself comparing, for example, the Republicans’ attempts to disenfranchise black people out of a pragmatic way of holding down the Democratic vote is absolutely repulsive, but then it’s also becoming quite clear that on the ground it doesn't work as well as the Republicans hope. So there's one thing about the right that means that all of this is not invalidated, what I've written about what's going on on the right. In the meantime, nobody can say that universities are not changing on a profound level in terms of the sorts of things that one can do and say, what big groups of professors and students can sign as a manifesto for transforming the entire institution. Yes, it’s a problem. And if you want to say why does it matter that things are changing in the universities and the arts and in our conceptions of justice, nobody would ask that in many countries. Those things are part of the fabric of the nation. What's going on in terms of trying to suppress the black vote is horrible, but the idea that that should occupy the center and not these other things, not that’s not truth, that’s a proposition, and I disagree with it."